Crime prevention strategy discussed at 17th COHSOD meeting

Nov 19, 2008 News

As earlier indicated by CARICOM Assistant Secretary General for Human and Social Development, Dr. Edward Greene, the development of a crime prevention strategy was discussed at the seventeenth meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD). The forum concluded yesterday and a strategy formulated by the Secretariat in collaboration with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was put on the table.
“It’s a programme out of Austria and its something that we are following through with…It is something very important because of the level of violence in schools and the issues related to adolescents, crime and violence,” Dr. Greene informed.
“In the Council for Human and Social Development where we place emphasis on people, and in particular the youth, we are concerned with how you prevent the development of crime and what are some of the aspects of prevention that are of direct relation to education in particular as well as youth programmes.”
According to him, the crime prevention programme is something that was discussed recently with some external partners and that strategy would engage the schools as well as the community groups.
“The programme is a very important aspect of how we deal with reducing the level of crime, and in particular crime as it affects our youth.
Dr Greene stated that crime prevention is not only about programmes to check the rate of crime but it also relates to collaborations with the economic and tourist sectors so that people are aware and it also has to do with a reduction of poverty since crime is driven by need.
According to him, all countries need this, especially if it is being looked at from the CSME and free movement point of view. “You could safely say that crime could easily spread.”
Dr Greene noted that it is important to note that crime has to be tackled regionally and that is the reason why this crime prevention strategy is a regional one and it really complements an ongoing programme which is done under the Council for National Security and law enforcement council in which the secretariat drives some of the policy.
“So while we do the crime prevention, we have an allied group, Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), which is located in Trinidad and Tobago that deals with the implementation of some of the strategies like border security. We are tackling this problem of crime and security at the regional level, cognizant of the fact that some countries have greater needs at this present time than others.”

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