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Region’s Top Cops meet for 25th AGM

Jun 10, 2010 News

– Police corruption among major topics discussed

Combating police corruption was one of the major topics discussed during the recently held Annual General Meeting of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police at the Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort and Spa in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, who was joined by his counterparts from the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curacao, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, and the United States Virgin Islands; in addition to the Deputy Police Commissioner of Jamaica along with a police representative from St. Maarten.
Also in attendance at the Conference were representatives from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the National Organisation of Black Law Executives, the International Criminal Investigation Training Assistance Program, The Drug Enforcement Agency, the Naval Criminal Investigative Services, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and INTERPOL.
The Conference was held under the theme “Violent Crime in the Caribbean – Defining and delivering a regional response”.
During the plenary sessions discussions were held on various topics of law enforcement and regional initiatives which included: Crime and its attendant challenges on regional security and social development; the impact of crime on human development and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals; training deficits in regional policing; a strategic assessment of regional capability and capacity to trace small arms and regional drug trends and the movement of drugs in the Caribbean
The region’s top cops also ventilated issues relating to emergency Management – lessons learnt from hurricane Katrina; the development of initiatives to respond to gang related violence; the impact of crime on regional tourism and understanding childhood diseases and their impact on the criminal justice system.
During closed door sessions the Commissioners of Police discussed matters relating to the theme of the Conference extensively and focused particularly on rising crime, gang violence and illegal weapons in the territories.
They also discussed strategies that were used by various countries to curb gang violence and illegal weapons trading.
During these closed door sessions country reports were delivered by every country on the state of leadership of the Force and crime in the country. It was also agreed that efforts must be made to do effective social work among the youths so that they may be better able to serve upon becoming adults.
Meanwhile, the Motorola Foundation once again donated the sum of US$30,000 towards a scholarship programme for the children of police ranks who had excelled academically, but their parents could not afford to finance their further studies.

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