Crime Falls in Antigua and Barbuda, Says Police Commissioner

1. The kind of reduction here actually shows me that the police is not being as effective as it could. The slight reductions are in crimes that mere police presence would substantially reduce but they only slightly reduced. That means the police are not out and about as much as it can and where the police should strategically be located.

   Larceny, malicious damage and robbery are crimes that are committed when it is clear or believed you will not be seen at that present moment, like most crimes, but these are some of the ones that strategically placing officers in the community could completely eliminate.

   Thanks for the reduction but a person can not focus in those slight reductions when it is clear a substantial reduction could have been had, if better strategies and executing these strategies effectively would have been used.

   Also, there is an increase in murder.

   Again, I want a team of officer’s assigned to a unit whose functions also including the safety of government officials like the PM, AG, MPs, Senators, COP, etcetera. These officers must regularly visit the home surrounding of such persons, ensuring their safety. This also will have a community positive impact, the police frequent presence (visits to inspect and safeguard officials’ home) will also act as general deterrence, reduce opportunities and show safety of officials are important. This task force must visit such government officials’ homes at least 3 times a day/night, always random times.

   You need better and strategic presence in the community. The country need police walk throughs, uniformed visits to schools (not much focus on plain clothes officers in schools as we need children and community to be able to identify who is an officer, and not people pretending to be an officer and kidnapping our children). Also, plain-clothes officers in a way turn out children into bait, trying to catch a predator. We should completely deter attacks against our children by showing dressed uniformed officers’ frequent visits to schools. We also want to have a safety class being taught in schools at least once a week for officers to teach and to learn from children about their needs and such learnt needs can be used to better communities. Nonody knows about the community more than children. They know what they need also.

2. ]I wonder if it’s really falling, or if fewer people are reporting things.

3. Not trying to be negative, but I still hear gunshots in my area sometimes.

4. Still too many unsolved cases for me to celebrate.

5. Good news if it’s true — I’ve definitely noticed fewer incidents in the headlines lately.

6. The numbers might be down, but people still getting robbed and shot — what about those cases?

7. Every time we hear “crime is down,” something big happens the next week. Let’s see.

8. @ my way of helping….I think we should give the Police some credit they are doing their very best and yes crime has been on a reduction thus far and hope it remains so…So I want to thank the Police for their hard work..I wanna say this with all due respect I am not bashing the PF but some male officers are pedophiles and I think it’s quite scary to think of them being stationed at schools. So gotta be really careful when selecting officers for that role….

9. Well Lord! Help us! If someone says something and you may not agree, it means that they lied. Can’t manage this type a dunceness buddy.

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