Cops’ community clinics a success
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service recently concluded their new approach to reaching out to the community with their first “community clinic.” Last month, for one week, police officers met with community members on a daily basis at the Cayman Islands Hospital in George Town, supermarkets and banks to discuss one-on-one concerns and problems people are facing in Cayman. RCIPS Superintendent Angelique Howell told CNS the community clinics were a major success and they will continue doing the program onnce each quarter.
RCIPS community clinic, June 2015
During the community clinic, concerned citizens answered multiple survey questions, allowing officers to understand the areas of need and how to come up with an action plan. Howell explained that, compared to the normal public meetings, with this new approach they were able to reach more people in a more convenient way.
In the latest CNS video, reporter Jamie Hicks talks in detail with the superintendent about the issues that emerged, how they plan to handle them and what community members can expect in the future.
On that comment about parking in fire zones….in front of Market Place, Cayman Brac, all the time. Makes it difficult to reverse from perpendicular parking space as well. But then again, drivers “park” in the middle of the road here too.
I’ve attended the police community meetings too, WaYaSay, where folks like you with vendettas and agendas regarding the police monopolize the air time and bore the rest of us with your sanctimony. I went once and never went back. I prefer being able to have a police officer talk to me for a few minutes in a convenient place in the course of my day without having to listen to all of YOUR BS. God knows the police aren’t perfect, but going on and on about who answers to whom and who is Caymanian or not will NEVER fix our crime problem, which, by the way, society as a whole is more responsible for than the police.
Just returning to the “blogging”, did a quick review on comments and as usual, no suggestions, no demands, just whining, whinning, ,,,,,
What do you WANT? Speak up. Say it. Community Policing? Traffic Dept.? Change to our Laws.? Say it. Get off of – I am having a bad day today so let me be as NEGATIVE as I can under the “anonymous” names we all choose.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE CHANGED? Say it. But whinning and non-sensical comments is why we here today!!! Demand what you want and stop the personality attack, hatred and non-productive comments!
People complain, because police don’t interact with the public, and when they do, you complain. Wow…
No, we would just like to see the effort being placed in catching and convicting criminals rather than PR fests. They can spare cops to sit at a desk at a supermarket and BS members of the public, but cannot spare them to man police stations, enforce the most basic of motoring offences, or even secure their own evidence lockers and police stations. I guess no shortage of volunteers to sit in the AC environment and tell the public what they are going to do in the future (which somehow never quite arrives), less to actually go out and catch the bad guys.
So this is Baines new approach to improving community policing in the Cayman Islands? Set up a bullshit program and then do a press release selling sh*t about how good it worked?
Baines, what criterion are you using to determine success…….your PR opinion?
Enough of this incompetence piled upon incompetence……..Give me and the Cayman public some facts and figures so that we can judge for ourselves the success of this program!
What were your matrixes? What results were you striving to achieve? Certainly in terms of gathering intelligence aimed at stopping people from getting shot dead, in the head, in the middle of George Town, stopping thieves from robbing whatever property they choose, including attempting the GT police station and delivering thousands of dollars of drugs directly to prisoners directly inside the prison, it was a complete failure!
How about some proactive policing? where the police tell the community what the criminal activity is in their district and what the district needs to do to put their criminals behind bars! The community will get behind you when they start to believe you give a damn and will cut down on crime.
It amazes me that in these new settings, no one told you what a crappy job RCIPS are doing! I have attended district meetings where RCIPS were told to their face that they are doing a terrible job on crime…………..It is strange that this PR sound bite makes no mention of anyone being upset at the results RCIPS are achieving!
Here is something that I have told you at district meetings, and I am sure someone had to have mentioned in this new setting……………man the police stations in East End and North Side. The communities will appreciate that! Something Angelique is directly responsible for, according to this press release.
But it is OK, you will not be fired, because nobody knows who you answer to anyway…………and you are not Caymanian.
What more proof does the Police Services need to believe that Community Policing is what they need to do next? God?
Now for Community Policing ….
The success of this approach should be ALL the Police Services need as PROOF that if they implement Community Policing that it would be the beginning of building a relationship and building trust with the Community. What more PROOF do they need? A sign from God?