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Mitwah posted:

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday praised the Guyana Police Force for keeping the crime rate down.

 

He praised the force for lessening incidents of crime and placing captured suspects on trial.

"You have sent a strong message that you would deal condignly with law-breakers and that our system of justice ensures that those who do the crime, they would do the time! No statistics are more compelling than those for 2016 when there was a 63% detection rate for murder. Of the 142 reports, 89 cases were made out. I understand in police lingua, this is called the clear-up rate, and 63% represents the highest such clear-up rate for murder in fifteen years," he said.

Our government also notes with satisfaction that last year the Major Crimes Unit busted 37 cases, which include 10 cold cases,11 murders and 11 robberies in which firearms had been used, he said.

 According to Nagamootoo another highlight of the force's work is the suppression of piracy, with only one such case reported in 2016. 

 

 

 

 

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