Police continue to battle growing warrant list
(CNS): Police executed another thirty-seven warrants this week, twenty of which were served in just one day, as part of a drive to reduce the massive list of outstanding warrants. Many of the warrants are for people who have failed to pay traffic tickets or missed a court date but there are still a number of people on the ever-growing list that are deliberately attempting to avoid the authorities, police said. “We will use every opportunity we have to interrupt anticipated criminal behaviour,” said Robert Graham, Superintendent of District Operations.
The senior officer stated that while those people deliberately intending to avoid the law are a priority, officers will continue to execute the warrants for everyone in order for the criminal justice system to function efficiently.
The police explained that officers often find people have genuinely forgotten about the ticket but that forgetfulness means they are, however, “inconvenienced when arrest warrants are served”, as they are generally arrested.
On average the process department at the George Town Police Station receives 40-50 warrants per week that have to be executed. This is on top of an already existing list of hundreds of outstanding warrants that have been issued for a range of crimes, from serious offenders who have absconded to outstanding speeding tickets for people who long ago left Cayman.
The police have said on numerous occasion if the public were to pay tickets in a timely fashion or contact the police processing department or the court registry office when they have forgotten, they can avoid arrest and help police focus on the crime front line.
People with outstanding tickets or who have missed court dates can call 244-2917 to bring themselves into compliance to prevent an arrest.
The easier and best way is put all fines on the DVLC system and when that vehicle due for renewal license…they must pay all fines first before issue new license….
Issue the tickets, give people two weeks to go to some government office to pay. Whoever hasn’t paid within that time period won’t be able to renew their license until ticket has been paid along with weekly compounding fines on top.
Anyone caught with another offense while still having a ticket outstanding gets license pulled for a month.
Stop this having to go to court in front of a judge nonsense. Our courts are overloaded with real criminals……….
Who the heck are they giving tickets to? I repeatedly see people parked on double yellow lines with police cars driving past and at least 10 cars a day that have no front license plate. As far as I understand it, these are both traffic infractions and it seems nothing is being done about either. And that’s central GT.
Bobo left and he ain’t coming back.
As part of routine border protection, shouldn’t we expect the RCIPS and DoI agencies to be automated and working together to flag those with active warrants so that they can’t flee the jurisdiction? Even those long gone should have an active warrant waiting for them here if they attempt to return. This is common sense. Owen Roberts is part of the “escape strategy” for most, with fully automated passport scan controls that would be easy to reconcile against a warrant list.
How many times we have to repeat- A stupid head won’t allow legs to rest!
Paying tickets online will eliminate the problem. Does anyone hear that?
Catch me if u can I’m the ginger bread man
Umm, can’t you just ask immigration to help?
They need to not arrest individuals for not paying a ticket. Pretty barbaric and harsh. If they don’t pay their tickets don’t let them renew their license without paying the outstanding tickets plus a heavy fine. Being arrested is not fun and going to jail is not fun. But the police here think it is hilarious throwing people in ice cold cells (fairbanks)
It took two plain clothes Officers about 5 hours to deal with my vicious offence of failing to appear to pay a ticket. (Was downtown twice but gave up looking for parking and then just forgot). They tried tracking me down at home (just left) the office (I was out on a call) then finally a phone call to find me so they could come and get me!
NO… I will meet you at the court, or the station, or wherever i need to go to pay the ticket. Too late! You have to go to Fairbanks, be booked and bailed to appear.
I met them there, and they stayed until my bail arrived.
Got a court date but went early to pay the fine, but had to appear before the judge.
Yes… Guilty, i did the offence, The judge could add costs… I understand (adding it up in my head, issue a warrant, two cops 5 hours, people at Fairbanks dealing with me, the back and forth to pay the ticket before the new court date, clerk, judge, time… real costs) I was thinking this could be a thousand bucks or more, $30 please! Yes Sir I can pay today!
And if you could just pay online.
Well why didn’t you go an pay in a timely matter?! would hope that getting a ticket isn’t a weekly occurrence for you so one would think you should be able to remember to get it paid. I am sure you remember to pay your TV cable bill so you can watch TV……..
Spoken like a true criminal. We get it. Its too hard to follow the laws when you are brought up ignorant.
Can’t ppl just go online and view whether they have an outstanding ticket by inputting their drivers licence number and name? Or something of that sort? That way people don’t have to call and occupy a public servant between the hours of 8:30- 5:00 and can look at their leisure 24hours of the day? Following that, pay the fine online with a credit/debit card and be done with it.
respect respect respect mon……not paying that ticket….rass
Book’em Danno, murder one
If they executed 37 in a week and usually receive 40 to 50, that is not part a drive to reduce the backlog. That’s not even keeping up. If they can serve 20 in one day, why can they only serve 37 in a week? They have over 300 officers for heavens sake.