Cops’ community clinics open in capital and Countryside
RCIPS officer
(CNS): The RCIPS will begin a series of walk-in community clinics on Monday as part of a new approach to its public outreach and local communications. Acting Superintendent Angelique Howell, OIC District Operations, explained that the low turnout at most public meetings has led the RCIPS to take a different approach.
On Monday officers will be on hand at the Cayman Islands Hospital between 9am and 12pm, at Fosters on Airport Road from 1pm to 4pm and at Fosters in Countryside Shopping Village between noon and 3pm.
The police community clinic is an open forum in highly traversed areas that aims to provide an avenue for informal talks between the residents and the police in addressing community concerns.
“These concerns are addressed through a Problem Oriented Policing and Partnership (POPP) approach, where the community, the police and other agencies work together to solve community problems,” said Howell. “We have decided to take this route having seen the poor turnout at public meetings where the members of the public often times do not turn out. We decided to come to the community rather than ask the community to come to us.”
Schedule for clinics:
Monday 22 June:
Cayman Islands Hospital – 9am 12pm
Fosters Food Fair (Airport Road) – 1pm 4pm
Fosters Food Fair Countryside Shopping Village 12-3pmWednesday 24 June
Kirks Supermarket – 11am to 3pm
Hurley’s Grand Harbour – 4pm to 7pmThursday 25 June
Scotiabank GT 10am- 2pm
CHHS PTA Session 5pm – 9pmSaturday 27 June
Fosters Food Fair (Strand) – 11am to 3pm
Cost-U-Less – 9-12pm
Fosters Food Fair, Republic 1-3pm
Foster’s Food Fair in East End 2pm – 6pmCayman Brac
Officers will also visit supermarkets on Cayman Brac throughout the week during the hours 8:30am – noon & 6pm – 8pm.
Policemen walking around shaking hands and watching over shoppers.
Policemen walking around the G.T. hospital shaking hands and watching over sick patients.
Mr. CoP, here is a news flash……….none of these people are are committing crimes against the community.
If you want to make friends with the people in North Side and East End try putting a policeman on the beat in both districts and solving some petty crimes while talking to the people who live there. They may have some information they would like to share with you and help your Police Department wipe out petty crime.
When you find out that this really works, try it with all the other districts where there are manned police stations like George Town, West Bay and Bodden Town.
There are many good honest Caymanians and Expats in all districts that would like to see their districts patrolled by the old fashioned policing and will talk to the Police when they are mixing with them in their communities.
It is obvious that having your police force sitting in air conditioning offices, driving around in air conditioned cars, walking around air conditioned hospitals or air conditioned supermarkets is not endearing your force to the Caymanian community, nor is it stopping too many crimes in action, nor preventing too many crimes before they occur.
I know………….I know………….I’m talking Utopia………….but boy, oh boy, it would be so much better if you could get even 50% there. You may find that it actually saves money and you can accomplish this within your “meager” annual budget.
The low turn out my dear is directly link to a very serious lack of confidence and trust in those employed and those incharge of the RCIPS, that’s not going to change anytime soon either, so they can hold as many clinic’s, town hall meetings,ho downs and can call it as many fancy names as they like. The lesson here is when you destroy others reputations and opportunities and lives to effect change to benefit a very greedy overseas agenda you severely damage and impair your own local interest. Not rocket science ! the installation of inept and incompetent leadership locally and from overseas didn,t help much either?
I suggest that you read the comments of Roger Davies below,as I think he is on the right track.I doubt that low attendance has anything to do with the things you mentioned in your post.
Unfortunately Mr Davies and yourself are totally out of touch with what is really happening in these islands both economically and socially. Even the Police recognize it themselves, thus the venue change???
I am going to report the car that races up and down my road with blacked out windows and sound system blasting, the guy on the motorbike who does the same, wheelies up and down the road at dreadful speed while we pray he will crash so as the problem goes away, the people (including a Caymanian policeman) who burn rubbish every weekend and cause terrible pollution, the people in the neighbourhood who have dogs that are not tied up and roam and crap and kill chickens in people’s yards. Will that get some action, Angelique? Because you see we have reported all these things before (and been made to think we are making a fuss over nothing) and ….nothing, nada, zero, zilch.
Third wold police applying third world standards
This is a very good idea.Attendance at most public meetings in Cayman (not just RCIP) is usually very poor. This way you are guaranteed high attendance. Full marks to Angelique.
How about starting with the gangster thugs from east end whom robbed 5 establishments in one night 2 businesses and 3 condos. Those people live in fear of the thugs.
If you had arrested them they wouldn’t be terrorizing the place now. Those young men have committed many crimes over the years and yet nothing is done.
Even if you don’t have enough to convict them they should just sit in jail for a while
“Even if you don’t have enough to convict them, they should just sit in jail for a while”
Wow. This is straight from the Manual of Policing, Chile circa 1978. A hint of uber right wing, old school views with a complete disregard to anything that is currently legal.
You display that you have prior knowledge that they have committed many crimes previously, You then state that nothing is done. I presume this is applicable to you and others.
There is the answer to your frustration.
It is a common practice of law enforcement around the world to let people rot for just under a year in jail
as far as saying something about the boys that robbed the lighthouse and broke into chesters and robbed the people in cottage and the places in east end
they are on video, crime stoppers were called, the police were notified.
NOTHING NADA ZIP