Cops chasing over 700 outstanding warrants
(CNS): The police are continuing in their efforts to clear outstanding warrants but despite dealing with more than 80 issues relating mostly to outstanding fines over the last month, the RCIPS still has 761 outstanding warrants to deal with. As quickly as police can deal with outstanding arrest warrants, traffic tickets, missing fine payments or people who failed to appear in court, more are added to the list. The RCIPS is carrying out weekly operations to try and clear the growing backlog but the large number of failures to comply with Ccourt orders is presenting serious challenges.
The sheer volume is holding up the judicial system and has a negative impact on the RCIPS’ ability to fulfil important functions, a police spokesperson said, urging people to come clean with fines and outstanding traffic tickets.
“The execution of warrants is a resource-intensive exercise that the RCIPS will continue to carry out, but we appeal to members of the public with outstanding payments to the Court to resolve these matters before we are compelled to execute a warrant at their home or place of work,” RCIPS said.
Chief Superintendent Kurt Walton added, “Compliance with court orders is not optional … if an individual ignores a summons to court, then we have an arrest warrant to execute, without exception.”
Those who are uncertain whether they have outstanding court matters should visit the Criminal Registry Office at the Judicial Administration Building, between 9am-3pm, Mondays through Fridays. The office can be contacted at 949-4296.
It is way past due for setting up an online payment option. Or designate parking spots just for the people who came to pay their fines.
Another example of the entitlement mentality writ large.
You mean like a dog chasing it’s tail or a snail chasing a rabbit?
All defaulters of government bills should be listed in a public record. Employers would know when their staff lack basic moral standards and whether a prospective employee has basic character issues.
PPM won’t do that. Costs votes. Votes more important than doing the right thing.
Great Idea!!
Interesting idea to, on the face of it, ‘privatize’ penalization for little cost. If there’s more penalty, in this case embarrassment and possibly employment or credit, to being listed than in settling your debt you’re encouraged to pay up. And all it would cost is a web page.
Just re-iterating a comment I made below, but before you can publish a list a) you have to make sure that the list is correct and b) that the person on the list knows they’ve got a bill owing. You do realise that you are suggesting that Government accounting is accurate!
FYI that’s about 1.3% of the populatiin
And 1.3% of the spelling mistakes.
A comment worthy of the bottom 1.3% percentile of humor writers.
Where is that finger print machine we paid $700,000.00 for
Mothballed because the planned use was illegal?
Change the system so that seat belt violations don’t result in an arrest warrant being issued. Cross reference the vehicular code violations with the licensing department so that no renewals on license plates or licenses permitted until fines and penalties are paid. I bet this would remove a good chunk of the outstanding warrants.
I don’t know why the ability to cross reference names between systems isn’t available in 2015. Where I used to live there was a central clearing house for certain information and even your car insurance company knew when you got a speeding ticket. This information was even shared across borders between Canada and the US.
In addition to cross referencing, add a $10 per day penalty for outstanding fines not settled on time, that should motivate people to pay up rather than ignore……..
Maybe also allow us to pay these petty fines online rather than wasting half a day or more going to court.
Now there’s a thought Kurt, Eric and whoever else still likes things done the old fashioned way.
Never mind the $10. Allow payment by wire transfer/ PayPal/ credit card/ pay at the post office/ bank teller. Just someway somehow that you don’t need to go to the court house which has insufficient parking.
Yes anon 8:57am since we are speaking about Caymanians having no respect for the law could you please explain why is it our dear governess was using her emergency lights on her jaguar the PPM bought for her to clear through traffic on West Bay road on Saturday afternoon to get to the Pirates landing on time???
Sure 7.26! Because she can. She was the guest of honour and idiots like you were blocking her way. Next question?
Probably they were applying heightened security measures globally given the events at the weekend. A dignitary caught in a traffic jam is the classic soft target.
Forget the fines. Focus on the real criminals.
Disagree. If you’ve been fined and you don’t pay, you are in the wrong. This is how it starts.
People with unpaid fines are real criminals by definition.
Then we wonder why they haven’t had a pay raise in 15 years.
Why dont the RCIPS just ask them all to turn themselfes in? Why complicate tings?
Why don’t the RCIPS do what they are so highly paid to do n stop looking help from the public, plus they got the streets of cayman over run with drugs an that in it self is another pay check for them, I don’t blame those who owe the system keep running from them, cuz their bigger criminals than u, murderers,rapists thieves and drug dealers, only God knows what else kinda crosses they bring here from their shit hole countries, so as I say to u the police here have a job to do so please don’t make it too easy for them by turning yourselves in. Keep running
I left and bobo ain’t coming back.
If there is a public listing for all to see, it will affect you then. Once someone googles your name, it would show that a warrant is out for your arrest and the reason.
I do hope this happens very soon.
I agree with publication! Bet they will pay then.
1) Publish names
2) Cross reference to vehicle licensing.
3) Give police simple cost-effective powers to seize any cars owned by defaulters, freeze bank accounts or attach earnings.
Why not write off all the minor traffic offences, fines, etc. and concentrate resources on the serious ones?
Double the fines and jail time for those not paying or showing up? This is what happens, parents teach their kids no respect for the law, and certain cayman elements believe laws don’t apply to Caymanians. Maybe a lesson needs to be meeted out…
Just phone them all up and tell them they’ve ‘won a prize’ and they need to collect at Central Police Station. Don’t laugh… this worked really well when they tried it in Miami!
An obvious symptom of a poorly organized operation to say the least. Chase the warrants yes, but hopefully someone is more concerned about the root cause that allowed this to happen.
From healthcare bills to traffic fines to garbage fees Caymanians, leaders to laborers,are not responsible people. .
Publish the names!
Exactly. The RCIP sometimes indicate that help from the public is necessary, and I agree with them.
That will not happen, 9:22. We don’t embarrass Caymanians as they are perfect. That’s why they wont publish the names of the people owing hospital bills. They are nearly all Caymanians and we can’t blame it on foreigners or those who got status in 2003. So, shhh, silence.
Exactly 08.00 and that is precisely why things won’t change. Politicos mollycoddling the voters instead of setting a good example. Ever decreasing circles, whilst we sit back and watch Cayman disappear up its own backside. It’s like watching lemmings.
More likely rubbish accounting at the hospital, got a bill from 2009 in the post the other day, never seen it, never been asked for it, no idea what it’s from, or why insurance didn’t pay up. No doubt I would have been on that list if published, so don’t be jumping to conclusions just to fit your narrative.
Honestly many don’t know they owe. Most expect that the insurance would have paid.
This is rich coming from the RCIP.
Someday the mountains might get em but the law never will – Waylon Jennings
I recall the RCIP “Octopus Team” being exceptionally effective in dealing with outstanding warrants a couple of years ago. What was done with that great performing team? Maybe they no longer do that job, and so we have a problem again.
How many of these have left the island why isn’t the names crossed referenced with immigration