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| Sunday, 30 May 2010 17:52 | |||
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Increased police patrols, community policing assistance, neighborhood watches and 911 are beginning to make a dent in crime, police say. “I think you can see a lot of effort is being placed on modernizing, reforming and restructuring the way that we work, and we believe it is starting to deliver some real results,” Assistant Commission David Ryder said at a recent press conference. “The outcomes that we want are the results the community wants and needs and expects from us. Reduced crime levels, and hopefully through greater reassurance achieved through greater and greater engagement with the police through more effective and efficient ways of working.” The third community assistance program was launched recently in Turtle Tail, joining those already in operation in Chalk Sound and Blue Mountain. Ryder said these neighbor patrols have had a significant effect on crime in the last two months. In addition, new neighbourhood watch programs have been set up in Kew Town and Wheeland, and one is being consider in Grand Turk, he said. Ryder said the department has changed assignments and patrol strategies to “put officers where they are actually needed and not behind a desk.” “We want officers on the street, we want officers stopping and searching people, we want officers to respond as quickly as possible,” he said. “Now that 911 gives the public a high quality opportunity to call us and ask for an emergency response, and that dispatches very quickly.” In April, reported crimes were down 13 percent from April 2009, averaging about eight reports a day countrywide. About 23 percent have been solved, which is slightly less than 25 percent for all of 2009. “We are pleased to say in the last 10 days we have had an average in the region of just under four crimes per day,” Ryder said May 27. “This is obviously four too many, but it is a significant decrease from the same time last year. Some of the days we had only one crime reported. On May 26 we had two crimes reported and two arrests made. So we have had some real successes.” Ryder said police are also stressing improving their investigations and case preparation with a Case File Quality Assurance Unit created earlier this year. Officers took part in a two day workshop last week to help them improve in this area. “When we arrest someone the job is not finished," said Ryder, "but it just begins."
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