One firearm handed in halfway through gun amnesty
(CNS): A single firearm and a significant amount of ammunition have been handed in at the halfway mark of the current National Gun Amnesty, which began on 1 July and ends on 31 July, the RCIPS has said. The police continue to encourage members of the community to take advantage of the amnesty by turning in all illegal guns, gun components and ammunition by the end of this month, no questions asked and without fear of prosecution.
Chief Superintendent Brad Ebanks said that after 37 years serving in the RCIPS, gun violence is now a real concern, and he urged people in a social media video to hand in illegal weapons. “There is no future in gun violence,” he said, adding that far too many young locals have either fallen victim to it or have ended up in jail serving lengthy prison terms.
The RCIPS has provided four options for the public to surrender guns, ammunition and any other weapons (see details here). More information on how to hand in firearms is provided on the RCIPS website. People can also call 1-345-936-8026 to make arrangements for handing in guns, ammunition and other weapons or to find out more.
“Help us in our journey of ensuring that our communities are free from gun and violent crimes. Say no to guns, say no to violence and make the Cayman Islands Safer,” the police said.
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Why not run this all the time, and not just at appointed times during the year?
Police know who the criminals are! If the law would provide this, A constant barrage of raids day and night on their dwellings and places known for gang hangouts! i am sure they would locate more than 1 firearm
How poorly is this being advertised?
Not heard any radio ads, seen no signs, no increased police presence … all talk, no effort as usual
Nothing will change
No criminal will give up his Fire Arm.
One literally did.
Maybe a pledge would work better?
or maybe a prayer morning on the steps of the la??
welcome to wonderland.
So how come, despite Juliana’s and others’ constant praying, saying he is looking down and always protecting us, and giving thanks to him, God isn’t making the bad guys see sense and hand in the guns and stop the killing?
11:41, same way he did nothing to stop Ivan mashing us up in 2004 despite all the prayers before the storm got here.
God does not intervene on human affairs anymore.
uh-oh spaghettios!…
cayman police-cops got everything sorted…..zzzzzzzzzzz
Amnesties bring in unlicensed firearms held by otherwise law abiding people, often inherited or or otherwise acquired rather than deliberately bought. It can reduce the number of firearms then available to criminals through theft. However, on an island where weapons flow in freely on canoes, the local gangsters don’t need to steal guns. Stopping the canoes, raiding the houses of those suspecty to have firearms, that might help – but a little difficult apparently for our RCIPS and Coastguard.
…and they could stop it all easily with a drone or two and a radar on the Bluff but they have chosen not to. Repeatedly. For years. Why?
Wat? CRIMINALS don’t want to turn their guns in instead of committing CRIMES?
At least thankfully, law abiding citizens can’t legally possess guns.
Hope the gun toting criminals take the road pledge to drive safe and follow the road code.
“gun violence is now a real concern” – is that why the police didn’t take our longstanding descent into lawlessness too seriously over the last 20 years? It wasn’t previously a “real” concern?
This may be harsh, and even unfair, but the RCIP needs to understand that the good guys are sick and tired of reading about persons “known to the police” committing crimes in “known drug houses” next to “known numbers dens” frequented by employees of “uniformed branches” of the civil service while they operate their “side hustles” free from the constraints of the labor or immigration act, grinning from their vehicles with illegal tint.
“now” it is a problem?
The real problem is that much of it has been facilitated and enabled by our police and other law enforcement agencies. Solve that!
Perhaps it’s finally a real concern since we have a Caymanian as CoP who actually cares what happens in his own country, instead of an immigrant on a prolonged jolly “across deez tree islands”?
8:50, be careful now, “Caymanian as CoP” and “prolonged jolly”. We had that Caymanian CoP before, remember? How did that work out? AWOL after Ivan and forced early retirement on the usual civil service benefits. Lets be a little bit humble, bobo.
Humble for what? How did it work out after having Byrne take the reins? Oh, that’s right – crime escalated to the worst point it has ever been across our islands (including post-Ivan).
Caymanians are already too humble and that’s what has us in this position now where if we point out the shortcomings of immigrants or, -forbid, we dare to praise the results of the efforts of our own people, we are labeled xenophobic, racist, etc.. “Humble” needs to go out the window about 20 years ago. The second best time for that to happen is right now.
Believing that the turkeys would vote for thanksgiving… couldn’t make it up.