Robbers, burglars and car thief keep cops busy
(CNS): Police officers were called to the first of two commercial burglaries over the holiday weekend at around 9am Christmas Day. A Nissan Skyliner was then reported stolen on Monday, before the most serious crime over the weekend took place just after midnight Tuesday, when a man was assaulted and robbed on the street in Red Bay. Meanwhile on the roads there were no major road smashes but the traffic unit still responded to 31 collisions and issued over 100 tickets.
A 41-year-old man was taken to hospital shortly after midnight on the morning of 28 December after he had been knocked unconscious by robbers on the street near Red Bay Primary School.
The victim had been walking home towards Prospect after buying food when a white car pulled up next to him. He believes he was punched in the face and knocked unconscious, and awoke to discover his phone and wallet were missing. He was taken to George Town Hospital, where he was treated and discharged.
The first burglary over the weekend was at a restaurant on Walkers Road in George Town. Officers were informed that an employee had locked up the establishment at around 8.30pm the previous night, 24 December. Another employee stopped by the following morning, Christmas Day, and noticed that a break-in had occurred.
The officers found that a window at the rear of the building had been forced open. Inside, the restaurant had been ransacked and several items were reported stolen, including electronic items and consumable goods.
The second burglary happened soon afterwards at 2.30am on 28 December at a church, also on Walkers Road, though the police said it was unclear if anything was stolen.
Officers who arrived at the scene saw that a window screen at the rear of the building had been removed and the window pushed in. They found that a front window screen had also been removed, a window on the right-hand side of the building had been broken and the front door was unlocked.
Police are still looking for a stolen silver 2006 Nissan Skyline, registration #161 016, which was last seen at about 2pm on Christmas Eve and discovered missing at about 11am on Monday, 27 December. The vehicle had been parked at an address on North Church Street, George Town.
There were no major collisions on the roads between Christmas Eve and Tuesday evening, as the RCIPS stepped up their visibility with their road safety campaign, Operation Quaker, with additional support from special constables, officers from other units within the police and 17 new police recruits, who supported traffic duties alongside senior officers.
While there no major collisions or life-threatening injuries, there were 31 crashes reported to 911, and the RCIPS said there was an increase in the number of drivers who left the scene before police arrived or insurance details were exchanged.
Officers issued just one ticket to a driver using a mobile phone, 13 tickets for speeding, 22 for excess tint, 53 for expired registration and just four DUIs.
“Our road policing units were pleased to witness relatively quiet roads over this Christmas weekend when compared to previous years,” said Superintendent Brad Ebanks. “We want to thank the public for practicing safe driving behaviours and helping us to keep serious road incidents to a minimum.”
He added, “As we approach New Year’s weekend, we expect the roads to be busy and motorists can expect to see us out in numbers across the island keeping the roads safe for all users. Be patient on the roads, slow down and don’t drink and drive. It’s not worth it.”
The police said there are options to drinking and driving, including calling a cab, using the #ArriveAlive345 Purple Ribbon buses, designating a sober driver or arranging for a family member to collect you.
Anyone with information regarding any of the crimes this weekend are asked to call the George Town Police Station at 949-4222.
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Police should hire the raccoon hunters, they deliver and get the job done.
That’s anon 841pm because most of them are located in lock away security compounds and gated security monitored communities.They don’t have to worry about the RIff Raff breaking into their cars or homes . Here the real deal the PACT government need fire and nvestigate those writing felonious and false reports for people like my nephew and brother in law too who are both a dangerous menace society whom I have had report several times and complain to probation who appears to be more criminal than them or a bigger con artist who are concluding with other people in the system to let others just like them out to continue committing crime. PACT need to take a good hard look at those milking the legal Aid system for their who benefit. Who clearly don’t give a damn about our safety and our community.
Nothing to do with PACT my friend. The RCIPS is bent at the core. Those managers at the top think they are in control whilst the boots on the ground lunatics just use it like they are the Mafia.
“Explain why your car isn’t insured and you don’t have a license? – Oh sorry pal, I am too from Kingston, on your way and i’ll see you outside the bar in Georgetown after my shift to pick up the collection fees”.
Tony Soprano could learn a lesson or two.
Crime in Cayman now and future is McKeeva’s legacy!!
True, but it’s not as if Alden didn’t double-down.
“He added, “As we approach New Year’s weekend, we expect the roads to be busy and motorists can expect to see us out in numbers across the island keeping the roads safe for all users. Be patient on the roads, slow down and don’t drink and drive. It’s not worth it.””
Christmas Eve, late at night and not a single police officer out according to everybody I’ve spoken to. Presumably RCIPS gave their entire staff half a day off for good work?
The sooner we get direct rule the better, along with a Stalinist style purge of the bent Jamrock coppers polluting the force here.
If Roper had any sense he would have machine guns on the walls of that fancy house of his to keep the psychotic yardies out. That’s what it will come to.
You sound like you live with us, but aren’t from us. Most of us don’t want direct rule OR independence. Most of us that have around a couple of years to watch the flow of things want changes, but within our own systems. You and me both have it pretty good here.
These past two years have been some of the most argumentative among Caymanians and Others With Skin In the Game, imo. I mean, some people are ANgry. So what should we do? Is the only measure of worth dollars in your pocket? I admit … times have been tight and that has influenced my view.
I think if we are cognisant of things, we can get along like we used to. Good people are still good people. Lot of division and hate and anger. We need to chill out and remember that we are all blessed to live in one of the most prosperous and safe places in the world.
We will be judged by our ability to adapt. That’s something that our ancestors mastered centuries ago.
BZ. We are importing the worst elements of our neighbors. Culturally, economically and socially. Declaring enough is enough is not inconsistent with being from Cayman. We are literally destroying our future.
I understand what you are saying. I don’t think direct rule would be to our benefit. I think we have to have the sand to agree upon what we will permit and stand against that which we will not.
I think we need to talk more and fight less. I think we need to decide how we want things.
You sound like somebody with skin in the game of importing poverty employees and enjoying the profits of people that are forced to live a dozen to a room, whilst barely paying pensions / insurance and then threatening them with permit revocation if they get out of line.
Life for those than manage to pull the wool over poor foreigners eyes and convince them to become indentured servants must be good right?
Not must be good. We KNOW it’s good. Direct rule and the return to actual civility is the only solution to cure this toxic mess of exploitation we have here.
Caymanians don’t agree. Never had, and never will. It’s always been survival of the fittest at the expense of everyone else (it was and is a tough place to survive after all, seriously tough at that). So agreeing on something isn’t in the local vocabulary.
It’s dog eat dog, rat eat rat. Whether that’s scavenging through bins for receipts and invoices so you can gazump your competitors, or whether it’s sitting in Country and Western with the “haves” and price fixing your supermarkets to steal everyone else’s hard earned cash. That it, was and will always be the real Cayman Islands
Speak for yourself
The dog eat dog you describe is Jamaica, not traditional Cayman.
$1,506,849 spent on government wages today.
Not nearly Chicago or Philadelphia, but pretty close. Who said that The Cayman islands are the safest in the Caribbean? 🥷🏻🧟♀️
Pretty low bar.
Lax immigration policies and a refusal to enforce any laws for more than a decade are what is mostly behind the cops being “kept busy”.
What is Cayman becoming?
Jamaica. Come one, come all. Sprinkle some Hondurans. Educate your most economically vulnerable with education systems and teachers that have no relevance to a modern financial services based economy, and da wha you get (with no mountains or natural resources).
It is not too late, but government has to act decisively and fast!
Start by deporting half the people on this Island.
About 20% actually, but you are on to something there.
Wite America….obv.
even thought the commisioner thought he could have an easy cristmas with the midnight lockdown…..ha…serves them right.
regarding rcips…never seen so little achieved by so many.
This is a sign of things to come. Within the next 10 years you will not be able to leave your home after dark because of the violent criminals.
Some of us have been warning the government and wider society about this for decades but special interest groups have always been able to control the politicians and prevent the changes that were needed to address the problem.
What special interests want violent criminals running around? Please tell me as I genuinely am curious. Name names if you can as well. Thank you.
Crime is now getting out of control and the police are trying but too many with hidden agenda’s in our govt are playing games with law enforcement and our safety ! Some folks need to be fired for inept and corrupt behaviour before this situation spirals out of Control. Please Mr premier doing something now.
Dismantle the Jamrock mafia running RCIPS and pay the proper rate and attract some UK/Canadian cops who know what the hell they are doing and who have no agenda other than policing without fear or favour.
12:33pm. They need to stop recruiting common labourers and gardeners as police officers.
Too much friend, friend business going on. This government is clueless, they are focusing more their misplaced power, no plans for anything constructive! A hot mess is what it it.
It is called corruption. #Legge was right.
There are basic precepts of self defence which are being denied us. Particularly in a small community as this, there are nonlethal defencive devices which should be available, but are in fact illegal. It is a reasonably simple matter to record the serial number of the device (capsicum spray, stun gun, etc.) and fine those who lose their devices without reporting them.
Criminal assholes are going to walk all over us in an increasingly progressive rate. It is less about where the crooks come from as our continued tolerance of their actions. If we don’t want this to happen, we have to get collectively involved in fighting it. Yes, we pay the RCIPS to fight it, but they can’t be everywhere, and they aren’t entrenched in the various communities as we are.
We know stuff, don’t we? We need to help put a stop to this. We don’t want to live like this, do we? I remember not so long ago, I could walk at night almost any place I chose without worry.
If people are struggling financially, we need to get them help. If people are caught up in drugs, we need to get them help, or get them hooked up, at their choice.
We shouldn’t wait for it to touch us personally. The crime is right there, right now.
No Surprise it’s simple too many criminals out here running around on these streets .Not sure why or who exactly are letting them out of prison one day they are in the News media for serious crimes against people and society and the next day they are right back out doing the same shit ! Must be frustrating for the Police WTF is going PACT and Governor Roper doing about this very dangerous crime situation ???
The answer is nothing. They even release expatriate prisoners into our community rather than taking them straight to the airport. No one even asks for deportation orders as part of the prosecution of foreign offenders. Any presence that anyone in authority is serious about law enforcement, and protecting the Cayman Islands is an expensive sham. Not only are they supervising our descent into chaos, but they are bankrupting us in the process.
Agree. Foreign prisoners should do the time and be made to pay restitution and then deported immediately with a DO NOT ADMIT in the CBP database.