Latest update September 22nd, 2026 10:30 AM
What is the Government’s definition of solving crime?
DEAR EDITOR,
The recent debates in Parliament, one commending the Joint Services for the killing of ‘Fine Man’ on the one hand, and allegations of torture carried out by the same service on the other hand, highlight the fundamental differences of approach in dealing with an issue, which approach ought to be one and the same.
The Joint Services, operating as a professional body preventing and solving crime, whilst observing the laws of this land as well as internationally agreed to conventions, should not be two opposing forces.
The General Secretary of the PPP/C, in his recent statements in the press, failed to present to the people of this country a realistic perspective of the situation at hand — a situation which on a daily basis shows that the security forces are indeed stretched, under paid, lack motivation, and are sometimes themselves incriminated in corrupt practices, as crimes are perpetrated at an alarming rate throughout the country.
Increasingly, gun crimes are being committed for small sums of cash, causing great harm to victims.
Commending and calling for compensation of the section of the Joint Services that finally killed ‘Fine Man’ does not help the other members of the police force and army, who are engaged in crime fighting on a daily basis in our cities and villages.
Support will be forthcoming from the public when crimes are prevented and solved. If the Government’s definition of solving crime is to present to the people of this country a series of dead and damaged ‘roughed up’ bodies, then they must say so.
The Government admitted that they had ‘Fine Man’ and ‘Skinny’ cornered and/or surrounded. Yet they were unable to capture these two, and perhaps really put a dent in crime and restore the confidence in the security forces, which is so necessary.
If we have problems on Diwali Night preventing persons from creating havoc in Alexander Village, a stone’s throw away from the Ruimveldt Police Station, and if we cannot prevent the Sunday Horse Cart race lawlessness along Homestretch Avenue, how can we in all fairness pretend that all is well and looking up?
The treatment of crime should never be a ‘them or us’ issue, for in the end we all suffer, some of us now and others later.
Everall Franklin, MP
GAP-ROAR
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