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Murders down despite recent spike

May 08, 2012 News

 

Despite the recent spike in murders the Guyana Police Force has released figures that show an 18 percent decrease for the period January to April, when compared with last year.
The Guyana Police Force in a statement issued yesterday said that a total of 44 murders were recorded at the end of April 2011 in comparison to 36 for the similar period this year.
Of the 36 murders, 16 were of the disorderly type, six were domestic related and two were execution type. The other 12 are so far unknown.
Of the two execution style murders one was the death of businessman Leonard Mahadeo, who was gunned down in an Eccles, East Bank Demerara bar.
The police do not consider the murders of ex-policeman Renie Williams and taxi driver Balram Jadoonauth as executions.
May 2012 is only seven days old and the police murder statistics are increasing.
And to make matters worse, most of the recent murders remain unsolved and investigators appear to have lost their way.
The Police East Coast Demerara Division is currently the murder capital of the country with 10 so far, one more than the large geographic Interior Division.
All the other Divisions have so far recorded murders except the Essequibo Coast, which is traditionally a low crime zone.
Meanwhile, the police are reporting that there is an overall decrease of 10 per cent in serious crimes up to the end of April this year in comparison to last year.
The total number of reports of serious crimes made by April 30 this year was 1268 compared to 1404 at the end of April last year.
Some of the offences being monitored are murder, robbery under arms, robbery with violence, larceny from the person, break and enter and larceny, burglary, rape and kidnapping.
Robbery under arms increased by 19 per cent at the end of April 2012, with 337 reports compared to 284 for the same period in 2011.
The statistics indicate an increase of 10 per cent in the number of armed robberies involving the use of firearms, and a 36 per cent increase in armed robberies where instruments other than firearms were used by the perpetrators.

 

COMPARATIVE FIGURES OF ROBBERY UNDER ARMS FOR ‘A-G’ DIVISIONS

1ST JANUARY TO 30th  APRIL, 2011/2012

 

Ser #

 

 OFFENCE

2011

2012

%INCREASE/

DECREASE
       1 ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

(FIRE ARMS USED)

187

205

+10%
       2 ROBBERY UNDER ARMS

(OTHER INSTRUMENTS USED)

97

132

+36%
TOTAL

284

337

+19%
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