St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda – April 9, 2025 — The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has embarked upon a series of development training programs in Proximity Policing, reinforcing its commitment to modern, community-centered policing across the nation.
These trainings equip officers with practical tools to strengthen community relations, improve public safety, and proactively address the root causes of crime. Proximity Policing—a refined approach to Community Policing—focuses on three critical pillars: Permanence, Partnership, and Problem-Solving.
The key elements are outlined as follows:
PERMANENCE: Officers are assigned to specific geographic zones for extended periods, encouraging familiarity with residents, environments, and local issues. This includes foot patrols, mobile patrol teams, and static police posts strategically located within the communities.
PARTNERSHIP: Officers are trained to work side-by-side with residents, community groups, and local leaders to develop collaborative solutions to public safety concerns. The training also emphasizes the importance of connecting the public with available support services and resources.
PROBLEM-SOLVING: Officers learn to identify the underlying conditions that contribute to crime—such as accessible targets, ideal environments, and motivated offenders. Through community collaboration, officers will take targeted actions to reduce crime, ease fear, and combat social decay.
This initiative places officers in the heart of the communities they serve, particularly in vulnerable areas, ensuring a visible, responsive, and accessible police presence.
Acting Commissioner Everton Jeffers praised the initiative, stating:
” Proximity Policing is not just a tactic—it’s a long-term commitment to our people. This training ensures our officers are not only enforcers of the law but also trusted partners and problem-solvers in every community. We are dedicated to building lasting trust, ensuring safety, and promoting excellence in service.” It also represents a major step forward in the modernization of our policing approach. Proximity Policing is about presence—it’s about connection and collaboration, while building lasting relationships and support safer, stronger communities across Antigua and Barbuda.”
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Samuel Joseph, who heads “A” Division, is spearheading the training. Officers attached to St. Johns, Grays Farm, and Langfords Police Stations, along with officers from the Golden Grove, West Bus Station, and Heritage Quay Outposts all participated in the first session of training held at the St. Johns Police Station on Tuesday, 8 April.
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Who on earth is giving the training? Will it be someone with literally no degree in police science or criminology or any social science that includes the study of community policing, etcetera?
Who is training Who?
Many years ago i give out a copy of a new initiative that would help to build a better relationship between Police Community, and youths which is call The National Police Community Base Youth clubs movement of Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬…
This initiative is to allow police to play a more great role in each community while having positive social activities amongst community members…
For further information Please email Charles Langley at (Email: [email protected])
I guess the assistant commissioner of police will be doing the training
@ my way of helping
You are an ass. And the minister opines likewise, that is why he ran you out, when you went begging for a job. Did he really asked you if you were mad
There are many areas of studies that goes into a criminology degree. By the time an officer wears khaki, he would of done many training courses that are part of a degree.
One should be able to teach what they. Leaned. If an officer did that particular course, he should be able to teach it.
My boss once brought a member of the Red Cross to reach us CPR. Did that Red Cross person have a medical degree, no, but they were taught CPR. So they can teach it.
So tell me, did the minister really called you mad
Hgggg
As long as these officers remember that they serve the people and are paid by our tax dollars all should be well. Additionally, respect is earned not beaten out of people, an egotistical person does not a good officer make, and the uniform does not mean you are above the law.
Shouldn’t this have been standard training for the police men and women after graduation or during your first year on the force? Just asking
WHAT THE HELL…! …PROXIMITY POLICING…?
When Law enforcement speaks to ‘…PROXIMITY POLICING:’
(i) ‘…No LAW ENFORCER: and
(ii) …NO LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN: shall be:
(a) ‘…FOOLED BY TERMINOLOGY: nor
(b) …SENTIMENTALITY.’
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CREDIT TO DR. HORACE CHONG- NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER JAMAICA:
One shall give full credit to ‘…JAMAICA’S NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER, DR. HORACE CHANG’ for ‘…COINING THE WORDS ‘…PROXIMITY AND POLICING= PROXIMITY POLICING.’
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WHILE THE ‘TERMINOLOGY’ MIGHT BE NEW, THERE IS NO NEW ‘…COMMUNITY POLICING CONCEPT.’
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THIS TRAINING COULD NOW MAKE:
(a) ‘…FORMER COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, ATLEE RODNEY QPM (Queen’s Police Medal): and
(b) …THE COMMUNITY POLICING UNIT, BE SEEN AS ‘…WOEFULLY USELESS.’
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NO MAN’S LAND
That which ‘…Acting Commissioner of Police, Pastor EVERTON JEFFERS KPM (King’s Police Medal) might wish to make the ‘…PROXIMITY POLICING’ WORK, is to call upon:
(i) ‘…PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER- SIR STEADROY ‘CUTIE’ BENJAMIN KGCN [November 1, 2023]; and
(ii) …NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER/PRIME MINISTER GASTON BROWNE’ to;
(a) ‘… REMOVE THE ‘…COLLIN’S JUNCTION POLICE STATION,’ AND RE-LOCATE IT AT ‘… ‘…GLANVILLES.’
BY SO DOING, THE POLICE WOULD BE IN ‘…CLOSE PROXIMITY’ TO:
(i) ‘…SEATON’S: and
(ii) …WILLIKIES’ COMMUNITIES.’
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GIVEN THE TRAINING, THEN THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY LIKENED TO ‘…JAMAICA,’ IT CAN BE CALLED: ‘…PROXIMITY POLICING.’
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QUESTION:
WHERE WAS THE ‘…35-YEAR-VETERAN: …OVERLOOKED: …PROMOTION-STARVED: YET …FAITHFUL: …DEVOTED: AND …DEEPLY COMMITTED ‘…SENIOR POLICE COMUNITY RELATIONS OFFICER, CORPORAL MARILYN HARRIS’ IN THE TRAINING?’
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NOW: ‘…PROXIMITY POLICING’
THIS HAS TO DO WITH THE ‘…POLICE’ BEING IN ‘…CLOSE PROXIMITY WITH THE CITIZENS.’
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THIS IS PARTICULARLY WHERE:
(a) ‘…IN COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE ARE ‘…NO POLICE STATIONS:’ and
(b) …LAWLESSNESS:
(c) …CRIME AND VIOLENCE ARE RAMPANT.’
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In this jurisdiction, it is incomparable to that obtained in regional sister island-nation ‘JAMAICA.’
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CONSPICUOUS POLICE PRESENCE:
THERE WOULD BE ‘…CONSPICUOUS POLICE PRESENCE.’
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TALK GOOD: …WALK GOOD.
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@Rawlston Pompey, you were hilarious (moving police station closer to the village causing proximity to be closer). That was truly brilliant and I needed that joke from you. Work is so stressful right now and that joke came in perfectly. You did well.