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CARICOM official wants better work environment for the Region’s police

May 12, 2009 News

Assistant Secretary-General of the CARICOM Secretariat Dr. Edward Greene has called on Caribbean Governments to pay greater attention to the conditions under which police officers across the region are expected to function.
A release from the secretariat stated that while acknowledging that some Caribbean governments had made considerable efforts to facilitate effective policing by upgrading infrastructure, Dr Greene told Police Commissioners yesterday that much more should be done to improve the enabling environment in which they and their officers were required to function.
He described as ‘substandard’ the facilities of several police stations in one member state (Guyana) and as equally dehumanizing, conditions under which prisoners were being detained at those stations, and stated that such conditions had “serious implications for the image of the police and the legitimacy of their role as one of the agencies of human and social development.”
“Hopefully, these conditions in our detention centers and prisons are not widespread throughout … the Region. If so, there is a crisis that must be urgently addressed,” he remarked.
The Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP) is holding its 24th Conference at Le Meridien Pegasus in Georgetown for two days under the theme: Police Reform as an Imperative for Quality Service. According to the Assistant Secretary-General, who has responsibility for Human and Social Development in the CARICOM Secretariat, any strategy of policy reform must of necessity include “improving the conditions of service for police officers as well as the environment in which citizens are detained or incarcerated.”

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