Police begin Christmas crime and traffic crackdown
(CNS): The RCIPS began its annual holiday crime and traffic crackdown Friday morning, just as CID began a new murder inquiry in East End. The operation will see an increase in police visibility on the roads and throughout the community in order to keep people safe over the festive season. Even before the launch of the annual operation, known as Winter Guardian, the police were targeting dangerous driving and road safety concerns occurring during the commuter traffic hour this week in Bodden Town. Thirteen drivers are now being prosecuted for traffic offences, including the little-known offence of inconsiderate driving.
“The community can expect to see more targeted traffic operations of this nature as we lead into our annual holiday safety campaign, Winter Guardian,” said Superintendent Richard Barrow, Commander of the Eastern Districts and Sisters Islands. “We want to remind drivers that the roadways are shared spaces. Your driving behaviour has a direct impact on other road users. If we all practiced safe driving behaviour every time we get behind the wheel, such as not speeding, putting our phones down and obeying the road rules, we would drastically reduce incidents on our roads.”
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When did this start? Because I still don’t see them anywhere…
11:26am please refer all complaints to those aloof dreamers and wasters at Department of rehabilitation who are complicit in misleading the public about the threat and danger their angels pose to the wider public frequently releasing dangerous menaces to society and making excuses or avoiding any responsible or accountability when their model citizens are rearrest or involved with criminal activity. I am still waiting on them to take my victim impact statement won’t hold my breath on that though. Department in dire need of reform or reshuffle or something total waste of our tax payer money propped up by losers and relatives in the ministry I have been told. Law enforcement not to blame for this foolishness at all.
Will they be breathalyzing everyone who runs in to stationary light poles late at night this year, or only some people?
Sort out the violent crime first and foremost.
Just drove through WB. Saw an old battered Honda Civic, mismatched panel colours. It had black tint, a brake light out, and no rear license plate. That crackdown is quite the thing, eh!
Can they arrest the bloody idiots turning on their hazard warning lights every time they stop at a pedestrian crossing or when someone in front of them slows to turn!!?
How about targeting all this stuff year-round?
how about cracking down on the traffic “lane experts” that only slow down traffic by constantly shifting back and forth between lanes.
Maybe learn to drive. Start here…
“Use the right-hand lane for overtaking or turning right. As soon as practicable after overtaking, you are to move back to the left lane.”
page 20 Cayman Road code. It’s not difficult.
http://www.dvdl.gov.ky/documents/Road-Code-2012-1-2021-02-25-02-10-56.pdf
I think OP is on about the weave specialists who thread through traffic left and right to get ahead by 0.3 seconds, but not seeing the mass of brake lights and evasive maneuvers in their wake.
I may be wrong though. To your point though, yes, drive in the left and overtake in the right, then go back to the left. It’s as simple as can be!
no respect for the police farce after the jon-jon incident….
Well they surely missed the inconsiderate drivers at the Old Crewe Road/LPH junction this and every other morning.
The public are literally being tasked to be on the lookout for all the mysterious dangerous recidivist career criminals that our justice system is now routinely setting free, without consideration for public order and safety. They granted bail in November to someone dangerous arrested weeks earlier in October for violating bail, and then in December he’s capped. You can’t make this stuff up.
The Annual platitudes and spiel by RCIPS is here whilst Gotham City continues on its merry gunfire way and our annual robbery spree continues unabated . Please spares of the dignity of being violently robbed in relative peace without the police and Governor disturbing our common sense by telling us lies about how safe we are in comparison to the rest of the world.
Really.,?
Why does Singapore not have a drug problem..?
Why do Arab countries not have a crime problem..?
Because they’re terrified of the consequences..that’s why.
Here we’re going to build a $100Million prison resort so that our criminals can live in comfort. What’s to be scared of..?
It’s missing the point. Prison isn’t supposed to be a punishment exacted on people. It’s supposed to keep other people safe from the inmates, while also allowing those locked up to be rehabilitated. The prison we have doesn’t work for anyone, that’s why it needs to be fixed.
The death penalty is proven to be ridiculous. Wrongful convictions lead to state murder. It also doesn’t deter people like you think, it just makes the stakes higher.
Problem is, in order to be REhabilitated, you have to be HAbilitated in the first place.
Well if is not intended as punishment, then why not sentence a criminal to go and stay at the cinema, or Turtle farm, that’ll keep people safe.!
Weak woke drivel is what has caused the decline of our society, let’s get back to law and order.
Oh dear, you invoked the ‘woke’ word. I know your type.
True, heads do roll.
Madam Premier and Ministers please don’t allow this foolish waste to proceed.
If the prison needs to be upgraded, then a$5million budget would do it.
Why spend more than that on consultants alone, only to completely remove fear of incarceration.
HM Northward was commissioned on the 5th of June 1981 as a Category C facility, to serve a population of around 20,000. There was a riot in 1999 because it was already too full. By 2013, there were over 200 cramming-in of varying status, with endemic drug use, decrepit cells, and predatory victimisation. Some of the prison officers were fired for dealing drugs. There are so many crooks now that they have to let some out to put the new ones in. Even dangerous criminals are being bailed or released early, and not for comfort, but tor physical space constraints. Go visit and have a look. Here’s an article from 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/05/prison-inspectors-cayman-islands-jails
Correction, the 1999 riot was led by disgruntled Jamaican prisoners following the Parole board’s decision that foreign inmates should serve half, not one third, of their sentences before being considered for parole.
They were sent to UK prisons where they complained that the Cayman board was “racist”.!
The law now is 5/9th of a sentence has to be served.
Had to really laugh when they said people are rattle in East End after shooting. The two main areas where most of the drugs and illegal guns enter through are in the Eastern districts. How many people report criminal activity in those areas ?? How many people in these 2 areas are actively involved in drug smuggling?? It’s so pervasive in these 2 areas the political apparatus are not immune or are tacitly involved in this criminal activity.So only thing rattling up here in these frontier badlands is minds of 60% foreign criminals who now populate these dangerous areas who can’t ply their trade for now because of the unwanted police presence and temporary attention to the laws which will soon go back to normal when it returns to all quiet on the Eastern Front
I was at Ala Kebab at the Marquee this past Friday night at 10:00 PM. There was a guy sitting on the curb of walkway right near the Ala Kebab shack. He was sitting on the curb, slumped over, looking like he may have been intoxicated. He had his face completely wrapped with some kind of a cloth face covering and his hoodie was pulled over his head. He looked disheveled and totally out of place. A FRU patrol SUV pulled up and two cops got out to talk to the guy. They started to search his bag, when a guy I can only assume was Caymanian because he had a Caymanian accent, came over and started loudly berating the police for bothering the guy, telling the cops that they had no “probable cause” to question and search the guy.
If a guy sitting on the curb in front of Ala Kebab (a place that experiences armed robberies seemingly every weekend) with his face completely covered and a hood over his head doesn’t give the police “probably cause”, then I don’t know what does!
Look people, the cops have a difficult enough job, so lets try not to make their jobs more difficult please? How does it look to tourists for this scary looking dude to be walking around the tourist strip looking like that? Do you want our island to continue to prosper? If so, please be part of the solution and not part of the problem. Thanks.
@10:24am. So what happend? Sounds like nothing and the guy was minding his own business. What you should be worried about is the real robbery of $14 bucks for a kebab
You saw one of our lovely volunteer barristers, assisting the young man with his depth of legal knowledge. Probable cause is an American thing. If police have reason to detain you for a search, they will tell you. It concerns nobody else. If you’re not happy, a complaint can be lodged. All officers are obliged to provide name, badge number, and police station. That’s it. Idiots interfering need to be moved on asap.
Was it this guy? He likes to help out.
https://caymannewsservice.com/2016/02/bryan-guilty-of-assault-but-no-conviction-recorded/
The RCIPS could give a wonderful Christmas present to the people of Cayman: Continue the Crime and Traffic crackdown for the whole year! Then continue it for another year… and so on. Stay safe, everyone!
Impossible for a crackdown to happen all year long when they’re mostly putting priority on chasing crack for their coffers outside of scheduled crackdowns.
Plenty speeders here in camana bay i mean dang nearly got hit that other day comin to work yanna
RCIPS could fill a ticket book in 15 minutes just on failure to stop at the paseo stop signs.
Private property, stop signs are just suggestions.
the police have no authority to issue traffic tickets on a private road
The government policy for anyone driving a government or statutory authority vehicle should be zero blood alcohol content. These vehicles should also all be clearly marked.
…and parked after 4:30pm, weekends and holidays.
“not speeding, putting our phones down and obeying the road rules, we would drastically reduce incidents on our roads”
Physician, heal thyself.
I hope they will also focus on the “small” infractions which eventually lead to bigger issues. For example, the many vehicles without a front license plate, drivers using fog lights at night, many unlicensed trailers without operating lights, and so on.
I wonder what the blue light on the dash board that indicates your high beams are on, means in Jamaica…..
…go faster?
As always with Jamaicans it means..”no prablem mon”.
Selfish, I’ll mannered, ignorant behavior all summed up when they drive.
Po Po inna vicinity.
The Blue is for High – Grade.
All serious offences in other work class jurisdictions, but not here? There’s only fog/mist in Cayman once in a blue moon. However since JuJu took the helm we’re gonna need some serious fog lights and horn if we’re to avoid a collision with economic and social disaster m.
Why so worried about a missing front plate? They serve no purpose other than to twist your knickers when they are absent.
Flouting the law is just adding to the problem. You’d have your knickers wrapped around your neck for doing the same thing in what sounds like your home country. What’s the problem, car’s nose or yours to high up in the firmament or car to sexy for a front plate?
Don’t be an a$$ ride a donkey like you know who!
That’s the point. My weekend car is way too sexy for a front plate so it will stay that way.
Many states and provinces provide only back plates. It’s half the cost to supply and front plates do nothing to identify a moving vehicle
Maybe then you should consider going back to the States and Provinces where you wouldn’t need a front plate then?
Thanks for the paperwork. As Caymanian as can be by law
Annual garbage effort for a few weeks. If you want to make the islands hostile to crime, then fix the “showing up for work” part, madame Governor. That’s the first step, not the last straw.
Let the punishment be Hostile too , as well as fear of prison.
Watch crime spike as soon as we have our Northward resort in place. It will be more comfortable than most criminal’s homes…plus free food of course.