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Police Force reports 19% decrease in serious crimes when compared to same period last year

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the police said there was a 9% reduction in reports of murder; a 9% decrease in gun-related robberies; an 8% decrease in armed robberies where other instruments were used by the perpetrators; a 38% decrease in robberies with violence; a 38% decrease in robberies with aggravation; an 18% decrease in rape; and a 22% decrease in break and enter and larceny.

Police Force reports 19% decrease in serious crimes when compared to same period last year

The Guyana Police Force is reporting a 19% decrease in serious crimes at the end of April this year relative to the same period last year.

In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the police said there was a 9% reduction in reports of murder; a 9% decrease in gun-related robberies; an 8% decrease in armed robberies where other instruments were used by the perpetrators; a 38% decrease in robberies with violence; a 38% decrease in robberies with aggravation; an 18% decrease in rape; and a 22% decrease in break and enter and larceny.

The stats are being released at a time when there is widespread public opinion that there is a spike in crime.

But according to the police, the reports made in April 2016 represent a 32% decrease against those reported in March this year.

The Force is crediting the slowing down of the crime rate to several initiatives taken by the Government and the Guyana Police Force to manage the crime situation.

Among those efforts are capacity building in the Criminal Investigation Department that is now manifested in perpetrators of high-profile crimes being arrested within two to three days of their occurrence.

“That situation coupled with the social crime prevention programme and our anti-crime patrol systems as well as Government policy initiatives are developing the public trust and reducing the fear of crime in the Guyanese society,” the statement added.

The Police said too that its partnership programmes with civil society organisations and collaboration with local and foreign law enforcement agencies have also served to strengthen the capacity of the Guyana Police Force. “The continuous exposure of our ranks to training both locally and internationally has served to develop the Force’s ability to deliver at the frontline level, at management level and at leadership level.”

At the moment, twelve (12) Assistant Superintendents of the Police Force are attached to the Dade County Police, Miami, for a period of three weeks.

So far for this year thirty-three (33) members of the Force have received training overseas in various aspects of law enforcement, inclusive of a three-month Course in Cyber Crime in India, a three-month Course in Advanced Fingerprint Technology also in India, and an Advanced Crime Scene Investigation Course in Russia.

Locally, another batch of thirty-four (34) new entrants to the Criminal Investigation Department has completed a six-week training programme. This adds to twenty-four (24) ranks who completed an Intelligence Gathering and Analysis Course, twenty (20) ranks who participated in a Narcotics Investigators Course, and another thirty-five (35) who attended a programme on National Protocols for Child Advocacy Centres Multi-disciplinary Teams.

Further, all the Police Divisional Detective Officers and their Second-in-Command along with all the Officers at the Criminal Investigation Department Headquarters were trained by trainers developed by the Justice Education Society (JES) of Canada in Major Crimes Case Management and Investigation.

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Bibi Haniffa posted:

You know today is not All Fools Day right?

I don't expect any fools to agree since they pretend that there was zero crime pre May 2015. Onward and upward.

Mars
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Mars posted:
Bibi Haniffa posted:

You know today is not All Fools Day right?

I don't expect any fools to agree since they pretend that there was zero crime pre May 2015. Onward and upward.

WHATTAX!!!!!

cain
Cobra posted:

The police seems to be towing the government line with their report on serious. Should we expect mass murders when the crime rate increases again?

Ask your PPP buddies.

cain

Open letter to President Granger on Ramjattan

Dear Editor,
For the past two months or more, there hasn’t been a day where the crime situation in Guyana has not dominated the headlines of the more popular dailies.
One has to be real naive not to observe that violent crime is on the rise, and that there is no evident macroplan to counter this.
The noticeable absence of any type of proactive approach seems to be a motivation for anyone with a gun to get into the business of armed robbery.
I am forced to deduce that this is all happening as a consequence of the lack of visionary leadership at both the Ministry of Public Security and the Guyana Police Force.
This situation is further compounded with the tragic conditions prevailing at the Georgetown Prisons, which also falls under the ambit of the Minister of Public Security.
Minister Ramjattan is obviously out of his depth at this Ministry, and his Commissioner is like Alice in Wonderland.
While I understand the provisions of the Cummingsburg Accord, President Granger, I urge you to consider removing both Ramjattan and the Commissioner of Police from their respective appointments, before the crime situation escalates to a catastrophe and brings your government down.
While Ramjattan may be a clever lawyer, Public Security is definitely not his forte. Ramjattan is a round peg in a square hole at the Public Security Ministry, unable to fill the requirements of his portfolio. He should be reshuffled to a ministry for which his qualifications make him suitable.
This is my humble advice as a worried citizen.

George Gomes
Lieutenant Colonel
(retired

alena06

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