RCIPS ‘needs to grow’ to meet demands, says CoP
(CNS): As he settles into the top job, the new police commissioner and veteran police officer, Kurt Walton, has said the RCIPS needs to grow in response to the growing population, the increase in traffic and the evolving nature of crime. Speaking to the press on Friday, Walton set out his vision for the future of policing here, identified the challenges and growing demands that the service faces, and made it clear future budgets would also need to increase.
The government has spent around $52 million on policing this year and will spend even more next because, the commissioner explained, “security is very expensive and we are a national service” that has no other services to depend on when there is a crime spike.
Walton said that as the Cayman Islands community grows, so must the RCIPS, and funding is needed for a range of services, from child protection measures and the battle against cybercrime to expanding the coastguard and the traffic unit.
As commissioner, he is committed to transparent and responsible spending. “We need to spend wisely,” he said. But given the many thousandss of call outs the RCIPS now receives every year, the headcount, equipment, technology and support networks all need to increase. “We can’t work without people, technology and finance,” Walton said.
As he takes over the helm of the growing service, the commissioner, who is very well known across the community, said he would continue the journey of improvement and modernisation started by former commissioner Derek Byrne, but change would be gradual, not dramatic.
He said that policing style was important to him, and the staff need to know where he stands and what he expects because the message from the top affects the behaviour at the bottom.
Walton set out a vision of a caring, collaborative and accountable police service. He stressed the need to be accountable for the growing budget and to ensure the RCIPS continued to complete their audits on time and within budget, and was able to answer for what it has spent.
He also revealed that he has invited the Cambridgeshire police service in the UK to come and review the RCIPS to advise Walton on what it was getting right and what could be improved.
Walton is also looking to the future and explained that policing and crime evolves as society changes. He pointed out that ten years ago, no one was worried about criminality now associated with cryptocurrency, the challenges presented by AI or other online crimes and the need for child safeguarding on the web and communication networks. These were the type of changing crimes police now have to contend with.
He said “future-proofing” would be an important aspect of the new long-term policing strategy due to be rolled out next year. “Policing evolves overtime depending on the threats that emerge,” the commissioner noted, adding that officers need to keep up with the changing expectations of the community.
Walton made it clear that government had always supported the funding of the RCIPS but the funding would need to increase. He explained that he is reviewing the size of the various departments in comparison to the demands made on them. The commissioner said there are just 20 officers in the RCIPS traffic unit, despite the huge number of cars on the road, the expanding road network and the increasing number of collisions.
As of 5 November, the RCIPS had responded to 2,868 crashes on the roads so far in 2023, which averages out at about 61 collisions every week.
He also had to consider the size of the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and the resources allocated to it for child safeguarding, as there had been 1,500 referrals this year. While those were not all criminal, many of them were, ranging from cases of neglect to sexual abuse.
The coastguard, which is now a separate department, is still funded via the RCIPS, and Commander Robert Scotland has previously stated that he hopes to increase his current complement of 34 officers to 48 to be able to provide more comprehensive cover for the search and rescue and security service.
Walton also said he wanted to grow the community policing department, as it’s important to people in the community to have more beat officers. The commissioner explained that this type of policing is very important for improving trust and that essential collaborate approach that is needed to successfully fight Cayman’s increasing levels of crime.
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12.08pm According to UK news the police there are not getting it right.
More more reduces effectiveness and efficiency accountability and responsibility it is recipe for disaster and it’s an excuse for poor leadership Cayman. Good leadership would have said let us work to improve what we have and try and see what we can accomplish and complete the goals we have set and ask the Government to work with us in that endeavor. We are starting with excuses and thus we will end up with excuses of why we failed.
We call for the police to hire quality instead of quantity this should be the same standard for those we keep importing in thrones to come here and reside and just maybe this uncivilized Hoard will or might stop bringing their criminal behavior and culture to our shores . Crying for more staff and allowing this population expansion rubbish will never stop until we elect a responsible government and that appears to be asking too much of both of our political parties now filled with corrupt and inept pariahs. So we continue the slide down hill with more problems which increases on a daily basis.
Kurt just get rid of the Jamaican police who are currently here doing nothing and hire more cops from Cayman and the UK. Problem solved. U R very welcome!
Can someone please tell me how many RCIP officers we have? I looked online and can’t find the answer.
I’d assume that at least 90% of Cayman residents are law abiding people (traffic rules violations is a different category).
This leaves approximately 10,000 who might commit or are committing some sort of crimes, but not all at once and not daily.
How many emergencies happens daily?
How many RCIPS members are needed daily to patrol Grand Cayman streets and districts, respond to crimes and assist in emergences ?
If I am missing something or my logic makes no sense, please provide an input.
It’s the same on a daily basis. Police calls are generally to the same muppets ad nauseum, interspersed with occasional emergencies too.
One semi-major incident can tie up all police in one district.
When not patrolling (which is a rarity sometimes in a call heavy day), officers are working on case files, attending court, or updating the police database.
All frontline officers do this to varying degrees of skill and efficiency.
There’s a need for more officers, despite the arbitrary claim that 400 is fine. They need better equipment, training, and backup.
The deadwood need removing, and the good officers need to feel rewarded for their efforts.
3.13pm You assume wrong. Once upon a time 90% were, however 90% percent of our population now have no actual ties to Cayman and at least 60% of them are from one lawless/crime-ridden country.
Step 1 – Take away the dominoes.
Step 2 – Have a siren at each station go off ever 5 minutes for those falling asleep. ps you can do it in cop cars also.
Step 3 – BT police please drive the Belford Estates highway in the mornings, you will fill up the government coffers before end of week.
Step 4 – Hire two staffers who all the do is search the license logs for expired tags. They will pay for themselves quite quickly.
Just some ideas.
Great ideas.
1. Never seen officers play dominoes at work
2. You know that on a 12hr shift you may actually need a break?
3. At shift switch over? it’s an idea, but that needs dedicated traffic officers as others will often be on a call. Police don’t have lights and sirens going for every job, so don’t assume a police vehicle is always available.
4. Two? you’d need an army, 24/7
Of those 2868 crashes, how many involved injury to drivers or passengers or a traffic offence that would warrant police attendance, versus gender benders that tied up traffic and took a traffic cop off the road for hours as he processed the paperwork? Why isn’t it the same as most developed jurisdictions where police attendance is on exception not the norm, and those involved are left to move their vehicles and exchange insurance details.
Many of our most”trivial” fender benders result in damage over $500, as well as damage to public infrastructure. A police report is required to determine fault, and make claims from party or their insurer. Renting a car while waiting for replacement parts to arrive and clear customs can be $500, even before that part is fitted to car and panels painted to match. Ask me how I know.
Everyone is missing the point…..He is suggesting more Police is needed in response to the GROWING POPULATION. Blame our government.
Exactly. It’s just another service struggling to cope with the sheer volume of people that have been allowed onto the island with zero regard for the issues it may cause.
It’s you who is missing the point.
90% of the current population are law abiding people.
RCIPS is dealing with 10% , so population growth doesn’t increase RCIPS workload.
Traffic Police- how many are there?
Only 20, operating in shifts.
Good grief. Let me help you sweetpea. If you have a population of 80,000 and 10% are bad-uns, that’s 8,000 criminals. If you increase the population to 100,000 and 10% is bad, that’s 10,000 crims for the same amount of cops.
NO, what we need is police officers that want to WORK. You talk to police officers a lot of them tell you some do not call in to their shifts leaving other officers to pick up their slack and get burned out. They love traffic work because it fills their quotas and is easy work. WHAT WE NEED TO INCREASE THE BUDGET FOR: speed cameras, upgrading and centralizing the postal system & DVL so people can be ticketed to their place of address, a PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION system reminiscent of a UK offering would be nice, and implementing a 1 car per resident regulation and a tariff for any extra vehicles a person has.
Maybe what Mr Walton should focus on is increasing the general moral among his lot. There is more corruption in the RCIPS than the general public is made aware of, which what can be expected when the department is made up more foreign nationals than local. In particular Jamaican nationals. I’m aware of members of the public who do not trust and may be slightly fearful of the abrasive and even militant attitude of some officers. Not to mention I don’t feel safe increasing the budget for a “community policing” department because of exactly that, the language and general attitude. We need more “Police community support officers”. With that said, I think there are many things we can adopt and learn from our parent country (UK) and other first world countries who are simply getting it right, in terms of how they police, their transportation system, community and social service offerings and infrastructure, healthcare including mental health, education, conservation, sustainability and renewable energy. Cayman is simply just too small of a place for us to not be getting it right by now. We need forward thinking and innovative leaders. We needed them a long time ago. But I digress.
5 words: “Consistent Enforcement” and “Lead by Example”. These 2 suggestions would drastically lower concerns of the glaring and growing issue of road safety.
And as more serious crime is a growing problem also, encourage and train all law-abiding persons to own the means to protect themselves and family.
Jesus, Kurt is sounding like all those English Commissioners of the past 40 years, maybe more, always asking for more police, more cars etc without doing anything about introducing better policing.
Public safety department and do away with this DcR foolishness inflated salaries for ministry pets and jobs for those who can’t get or cut it anywhere else in government. Give this money to the police for safety and security. These people are keeping Northward prison full with this revolving door wasting our money on programs that never work only meant to enhance their careers and their job titles . Time to cut the waste Cayman!
No law and order and No order law ! Defund all those fool fool agencies wasting money talking about recidivism and rehabilitation hocus pocus garbage.Who are achieving little our nothing but job creation for nut jobs and career civil servants who are being groom as pets for those who have absolutely no use in government but to undermine and obstruct effectiveness transparency and efficiency . Take that money and provide it for the police for safety and safeguarding the public A public safety department!
No, what we need is Quality > Quantity. the RCIPS hire mainly from Jamaica because it is cheap labour and an easy process. Look how many times they have hired hardened criminals and found out about it later. It’s embarrassing. Also the Jamaican officers always take care of their own, letting them off all traffic infractions. This is fact not fiction.
Ironically, Brit police cost same as Jamaicans. There is a pay scale which applies to all new hires.
Brit police will prove to be less expensive actually.
1…You’ll get a lot more effective work out if them.
2…They wont bring over their whole family and send them to govt schools.
3…The community will benefit with proper policing.
4…Driving will improve.
5…Add your own to the list.
RCIP needs modernisation along with updates to the Traffic Code. Why are minor accidents allowed to cause major traffic disruption? In most jurisdictions now you have to move your vehicle out of traffic (if possible) or get a fine.
As another poster noted, it is like a scene from Road Warrior coming out of West Bay between 6:30 and 7:30 am. high speeds, dangerous passing and a lot of vehicles that should not be on the road.
Also see the mayhem as the wannabe speed warriots accelerate through the Hurleys roundabout eastward!
Don’t forget the RCIPS Business Office and its internal ‘issues’.
Talk is cheap. Finish up that West Bay sub-station and do the same throughout the island. Place more officers on patrol and have them interacting with residents in troubled areas. If you know the people, it’s not very difficult to know who’s committing the crimes.
The problem is the quality of the police not the quantity
When was the last time you saw an ATV on the beach or a cop on a bicycle? They spend a lot of money on these things but no one wants to get out of their air-conditioned car or office.
The place is also chockablock full of retired Brit cops who are just drains on the department…and yes, stop hiring Jamaicans.
A really good start might be to pay the people at the bottom a lot more money and stop having so many people sit in offices at the top writing useless memos.
Captain Kurt, if you start by diversifying your staff/officers, then change might come especially with the general public’s confidence of the RCIPS. Until then, more will not be better and it will be the same ole, same ole.
Please listen to the people of the Cayman Islands.
Enough is enough.
Don’t be afraid to fix something that is obviously broken.
When the home invasions and robberies make it to Crystal Harbour and Camana Bay, then and only then will you see any proper police response.
As Bob Marley said ‘ Bringing the ghetto uptown’.
I have really lost all faith in the RCIPS. No more Jamaican police officers. Tired of sugar coating it. That is the problem.
Thats exactly correct, if you’re not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. They should do a hiring freeze on Jamaican nationals.
Stop it Kurt! You have lost the plot. The RCIP are a disgrace. Rather than enforcing laws it has become enablers. The standards have been too lax, for too long. The trust is gone. Just enforce the law!
Why are there still Pit Bulls 30 years after they were made illegal? Why is there still illegal tint on so many cars? Why is it possible to see so many infractions of so many laws on a simple drive to work?
Why do you never see traffic police cars out doing their duty?
They were out on Fairbanks Road about 100 yards from the Field of Dreams entrance this morning.
The Traffic Department has 20 officers. Roughly a third may be on duty at any one time. So, it’s likely we only have 6 or 7 officers dedicated to traffic at any given moment. Throw in a crash, lose 1 or 2 for at least an hour. A DUI, removes another officer or two for a couple of hours. So, it’s likely that there’s only going to be a couple of units from WB to EE that are anything approaching ‘proactive’.
It’s the only Department that brings in revenue. At least double it, have 40+ officers (ideally UK traffic trained). Have at least 3 more unmarked vehicles that are not grey Camrys…perhaps something that blends in like a Hyundai SUV, a Jeep Wrangler, Honda Accord etc. Then pound the streets and actually pull over the cars with broken lights, LEDs that a 6yr old would find ‘cool’, crap heaps spewing smoke, dump trucks with bald tires, idiots high beaming…and so on.
Good idea, but need to drop the Hyundai I think. They can toss a bearing or throw a rod with zero warning. Stay with something robust ( Toyota ).
No Jeeps either , anything FCA / Stellantis is just rubbish.
Idiotic observations, 7:50.
440 plus officers. What are they all doing.
Could we not also just have some ticket people for people who have parked illegally etc in the common spots, these people wouldn’t need to be highly trained and would bring in a lot of money.
If you want to blend in we should get some RCIPS Honda Fits
One free suggestion: ensure that ALL police vehicle drivers obey the traffic laws. Drive as outlined in the Road Code – you know the indicator usage, correct lanes, etc., etc.
Then work on ALL other government vehicle driver to do the same.
Lead by example. Always.
They NEVER drive in the correct, usually left, lane!
Agreed! Your suggestion AND “consistent enforcement” are the main ingredients needed to improve road safety.
Kurt doesn’t have a plan of his own to take the RCIPS forward. He doesn’t have a strategic plan or vision. Kurt is carrying on the failure and mess that the ex-commissioner left for him. Kirk hasn’t chosen a new Chief of staff for himself. He is carrying on with the one that was there before. He doesn’t need money or officers, he needs to place the correct officer in the right position and know how to use what he has.
We finally got a Caymanian to be the Commissioner and people had the worst to say about this man.
You the community need to do your part instead of complaining and blaming every f-ing thing on the police.
Half of the time it be you same ones encouraging, harboring these “criminals”!!!!
Yeah right. Tell me how it is okay and/or acceptable for an ex police officer to be owning and operating an illegal ‘gambling shop’ which results in the murder of an ex prison officer and neither the police nor the courts take one iota or notice, to say nothing of accountability, of that obvious example of supposed law and order being polluted by the very ones supposed to be the upholders of supposed law and order. It is indicative of the institutionalized corruption and the inculcation of criminal syndicatry set deep into the very fabric of the farce which we are supposed to accept as law and order or a valid system of justice. No. Doctor heal thy damn worthless and crooked eedjit self first.
I think the problem is that the official in charge of the police, the governor, is totally out of touch with these issues. She looks to the police for briefings, which are bound to be self-serving, and she never sees the chaos on our roads. Even some police officers don’t know the rules of the road: watch them driving round a roundabout!
The governor needs to bypass the police and start canvassing the views of disinterested citizens. As a matter of urgency.
As regards road traffic control, the RCIPS is unfit for purpose. But the governor will continue to talk of everything being rosy in the garden because that’s what she’s told – by the police!
When I can drive from BT to WB in the morning and not see one police car on the way and you want to hire more of these incompetents?
I can drive from Manchester to London and not see a police car. What’s your point?
Realistically, there’s only going to be a couple of traffic units on the road. Regular units will be responding to the usual stuff, like domestics, minor accidents, and any other nonsense you can imagine.
When’s the last time you’ve seen them doing speed checks, checking road license, breathalysing etc? Look at the cars running around without proper license plates! I even saw one with 8 digits, and two cars with teh same number.
No need to, they have video surveillance all the way.
Its been weeks since I saw a police car on the roads
What’s so special about Cambridgeshire ?
nothing. they just did a better job than everyone else in selling their consultancy services for a nice holiday and a few dollars. probably convinced the rcips that the police service were affliated to the universities.
I’m not sure what modernization Bryne did or started. Those mentioned by him in his farewell with the media were FCO-initiated and funded with some obvious opportunity costs for the CI Government. The only things that he did were to grow the organization and make bad decisions that led to several costly civil actions that will continue long after he’s gone.
I have a lot a of time for Comm Walton. A very decent, personable and forward thinking oasis in a vast desert of archaic policing. He was the natural choice for COP and is well liked by the rank and file. But he is let down by some truly dreadful 1st line supervisors who are not up to the task. Additionally, we have a disproportionately large firearms department with some officers who should be nowhere near a gun or RCIPS for that matter.
The Cambs constabulary doing an audit are going to get their eyes opened VERY wide indeed. But I can see any recommendations, suggestions, audits and scoping exercises ignored…again. Literally hundreds of thousands has been spent on wages and experts being brought in and providing their findings which end up in File 13. Maybe this time RCIPS will listen because nothing seems to change after these audits. Or maybe the SMT didn’t cascade it down to the front line. Or it was ignored by them too.
Wholesale changes are needed in all departments regarding resourcing and remits and courage is required to dismiss the wage thieves in RCIPS who are bringing nothing to the table.
There are way too many people near the top just sitting behind their computers doing nothing. Take a hacksaw to the top and hire more cops at the bottom. No increase needed.
“Walton is also looking to the future as he explained that policing and crime evolves as society changes. He pointed out that ten years ago no one was worried about criminality now associated with crypto currency, the challenges presented by AI or other on-line crimes and the need for child safeguarding on the web and communication networks. These were the type of changing crimes police now have to contend with.”
So anyone uses crypto is a criminal? What’s next a cyber police task force with a 100mill budget?
What this country needs is to fire all theses Jamaican police there more crooked than the criminals.
The U K officers here are useless, except in South Sound.
No professionalism manners or common sense.
Complaining about cryptocurrency being able to be used criminally is akin to associating kitchen knives with being easy access weapons for robbers.
Pointless and smells of incompetence, frankly.
Our budget of roughly USD$65mln is already 30% more than that of the Sheriffs Office for Jacksonville Florida, a city of nearly a million people, with a budget of $46.5mln a year that provides two helicopters, 2082 sworn duty officers, and some 950 corrections officers. Where then are our funds going? How is it being allocated? What is it delivering? What are we doing wrong? Do we have a secret space program or submarine fleet? Are we allowed to ask?
Ahem, fact check: the JSO (Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office) budget for this year is $513.8m. I just looked it up.
The total salary for JSO patrol and enforcement at June 2023 was $98.2 million. Grand Cayman is 10x smaller. Pick a number and divide by 10.
They also get state and federal aid, how much do we get from the UK?
Definitely needs to grow – grow some balls, get out of your air conditioned vehicle and do your job! And be better at setting an example of how you drive and the correct use of road rules.
When you do increase the amount of staff, may we try to get some different nationalities to hire? Too many of the same, is not a good thing. Just a thought.
Why not start with training, fundamental performance expectations, time sheets, and accountability rather than discrimination? The discrimination method hasn’t been working so far – let’s retire that losing methodology and pick up the slack in basic managerial competence. That is the heart of this $52mln value-for-money hole.
Jamaican police equals Jamaican policing.
Jamaican policing means uneducated men in uniform with power disproportionate to their intellect.
Police Corruption will be the norm , as it is in Jamaica.
Please please stop turning us into Jamaica.
already making excuses. The attorney General, the DPP and now the RCIPS all just ask for more and more to shore up their incompetence. The leadership on the AG and DPP should have been terminated 10 yrs ago when the mess started getting out of hand. Kurt this is not the way to start off your lead over the department.
Better ask Kenny Mr Walton, see if he’s willing to curtail his private airport 🛩️🛩️🛩️🛩️🛩️🚓
No. no. no, no, no! You already have plenty of staff and plenty of money. You’re just not making your staff do their jobs.
I’m going to help you for free: start with traffic stops and lots of them. If you pull over 100 cars for speeding or having lights out or driving erratically (and that can happen in about an hour) you’ll find:
5-10 with no insurance, license or paperwork for their cars
5-10 with kids not in car seats
1-5 under the influence of drugs or alcohol
1-5 with drugs in the car
1-5 with a gun in the car
and so on and so fourth. For every one of them with drugs, guns, stolen goods etc you pull on the string and they’ll lead you to the next fish up the ladder. Then you’re going to find people living in homes not fit for purpose, more drugs, abusive landlord, sketchy employers. Then you’ll find people here without permits or doing something outside their permit, and some of those things they’re doing are illegal; selling drugs, running girls, etc.
I haven’t seen a traffic stop in YEARS. Used to be every single friday and saturday night you couldn’t get into/out of west bay without going through the roundabout and stopping for police. Same at hurley’s.
RCIPS are not doing their basic jobs. And just like everyone else at CIG who doesn’t do their jobs, they say they need more people and more money.
It’s BS.
Average speed on LPH is 70mph at 0530, never seen any cops there while I fear for my life going to work on my bicycle (yes riding the correct side and with lights). Do they not check the ‘traffic calmers’ speed logs? You don’t need more cops you need to get rid of the lazy ones just cruising around doing nothing.
That’s the same as the average speed of those running late for church on Sunday morning on South Sound Road. Not a police car in sight but hey, the old man’s pile of leaves will show them!
They should check the traffic calmer speed logs in that one opposite Coe Wood beach in Bodden Town. Hardly a single vehicle passes without breaking the speed limit…especially the dump trucks going to and from the quarries.
Your plan is a bit…draconian, don’t you think?
Your plan is to unjustly stop the flow of traffic, this will only irritate drivers, further making traffic congestion times longer than they are currently. Also, such measures as you purpose will lead to authoritarian abuse, an excuse to go after people without actual evidence or warrants.
This isn’t Russia, China or certain Middle Eastern countries, so let’s not entertain your asinine ideas.
No it’s not draconian. I said pull people over for speeding. You wouldn’t even have to do it during rush hour. It’s not like I said let’s implement stop and frisk.
Full traffic stops used to be at roundabouts late at night on the weekend when people were drinking.
The much more asinine idea is to let criminals roam free with no plan or action whatsoever to stop them, all in the name of keeping traffic going?
Stop with the hyperbole statements, please. You make it out to seem as if the island is run amok with ‘roaming criminals’. 🙄
Criminals adapt, the smart ones always do. There’s only a few times any sporadic, traffic inducing stops/slow downs will actually be beneficial to the police.
If you drive a car that isn’t licensed you have committed a crime. That makes you a criminal. Pulling said person over for speeding and finding out they don’t have a license is not hyperbole. Speeding is a crime.
Yes the island is literally run amok with criminals by the very definition of the word and it is not hyperbole whatsoever.
What excuse can you possibly have for not pulling over someone speeding? I’m all ears
Hopefully they will not try your ideas during rush hours. It’s bad enough now just trying to get to work to make a honest living and back home safely to my family. You may like the traffic jams. Certainly not I…..
So what is he going to do about the inordinate amount of Jamaicans in the police service? I think there is a serious debate to be had by COP and the Governor about whether we should be introducing police officers from the UK on X year shifts so that there can be no ingrained conflict of interest in day to day policing.
Anybody that has been to the USA or the UK can imagine the absolute raging hard on the traffic police there would have when presented with the copious amounts of traffic offenses they could spend their days taking care of if given a few years on Island. They live for catching someone on their phone etc.
Lazy isn’t a nationality, but it is a state of affairs. It’s a common workplace cultural failure, tolerated by senior managers that either shouldn’t be in those positions of managing staff, or don’t have any performance expectations put on them by those paying. Often both. Just 20 officers allocated to community traffic duties, less than 5% of full time staffing, demonstrates how completely tone deaf the RCIPS have been to decades of reiterated feedback, and direct appeals from the public. Asking for more while holding us in contempt. If there are 20 traffic cops, and 38 coast guard, what are the other 350 full time employees doing? Break it down by Division please.
The RCIPS doesn’t need more police officers, it just needs better ones.
Replace the Jamaicans with Brits.
Same cost without dubious work ethic, training and education currently dragging down the police service to 3rd world standards.
Oh no not this spiel again we got more police per capita than the rest of of the entire region and the grand budget of a small country to match WTF this gone retro 2000 not this foolishness again though More money more Problems How that for retro ?? Can’t believe they come now wid this $#@% @gain 4 real
What % of our population works in Law Enforcement?
According to the RCIPS website there are 395 Officers and 63 Civilian Staff.
If we call our population 85,000 that means around 1 out of every 200 people in the Cayman Islands work for the RCIPS. Add in over 150 people in the Prison Service, countless low-wage security guards and a handful of higher end security contractors and we have a staggering number of people failing to keep law and order.
If we add the 175 authorized number for the Cayman Islands Regiment it is an even bigger proportion of the population.
Yet somehow sh!t keeps happening. If we as a society continue to F around on this we will find out just how bad things can get.
It’s a good point, but I can tell you that the CI Regiment have nowhere near 175 people, the Government keeps reducing their funding and won’t let them recruit, so its going to be problematic if/when we need them.
Well.. Since we (Caymanians) are now outnumbered by expats on permits I suggest that a new fee (percentage of the work permit fee), be added on to every work permit and used to fund security, infrastructure and education.
How about the RCIPS just does their job. And when a permit holder commits a crime they are sent home.
Think about how many people get PR and shouldn’t because of they were arrested or convicted for the BS they do it would knock their points below the cutoff. You could fix half you immigration problems by RCIPS doing its job.
But that would require people to actually work for a living so….
The more the merrier? How about hiring crime investigation professionals? What about crime prevention?
The ineptitude of the local police is farcical.
Maybe RCIPS need to start performing its duties? Perhaps hire Sherlock Holmes?