These are some of the strategies that the PLP says they will use to combat crime.
Most of them have already been implemented in the government’s normal half-assed way… so they haven’t done a bit of good.
Some of the other ideas will, no doubt, either never come to fruition or will also be implemented in a way that also makes them ineffective.
• Improvement and expansion of the capabilities of the Situation Room to collect and analyse data and to positively influence co-ordination of policing operations.
• Contracting out vehicle repairs and maintenance to private vehicle repair establishments as means of ensuring that the full fleet of police vehicles is available for the war on crime
• Effecting improvements to the EMT (emergency medical technician) programme
• Appointment of new judges and public defenders
• Improved intelligence-gathering capability
• Expanded CCTV coverage
• Targeting of prolific offenders especially those on bail and especially bail for murders or other violent crimes
• Expanded use of reserve officers
• Accelerated training of new recruits
• Expanded use of plainclothes officers and adoption of the “Strike Force” strategy
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• Expanded use of plainclothes officers and adoption of the “Strike Force” strategy
• Legislative intervention aimed at prolific or career criminals, with stiffer penalties for firearm use and trafficking, witness intimidation and other serious crimes.
• Formation of a Gang Unit
• Consideration of a gun amnesty/ buy back/ exchange/ bounty
• Special court for firearm cases
BTW: Whatever happened to the PLP being”ready to hit the ground running” with all the crime fighting solutions they said they had all ready to go while they were in campaign mode back in 2012.
The PLP brass wasn’t lying back then were they?
