Tag: Kurt Walton
Local demand for drugs fuelling gun smuggling
(CNS): There are at least 90 illegal guns currently on the streets of the Cayman Islands that police know about, it was revealed at a meeting about the escalating violence held in West Bay Wednesday night, and senior RCIPS officers and politicians drew a link between the demand for drugs and the smuggling of firearms. […]
Football match shooting hits headlines around the world
(CNS): The Cayman Islands’ reputation as a safe place to live and work or take a vacation took a serious battering on Monday when, within a matter of hours, news of the shooting at the Ed Bush Stadium during a premier league football match Sunday night began hitting the headlines. All of the major US […]
Gang tensions behind football stadium shooting
(CNS): Police are working on the theory that heightened gang tensions are behind the shocking but targeted shooting last night at the Ed Bush football field in West Bay, where seven people were hit. Two George Town gangs are believed to have joined up with one of two long-standing gangs in West Bay in a […]
CoP rolls out new three-year plan for RCIPS
(CNS): The RCIPS has published a new strategic plan that will guide its goals over the next three years, which Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton said would use “innovative approaches aimed at transformative change”. As Walton makes his mark as the leader of a police service in which he has served for more than three […]
Death or jail awaits gangsters, warns CoP Walton
(CNS): Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton has warned local gangsters that the current tit-for-tat violence and increase in tensions will only end in their death or being locked up if they do not stop. After another man was shot multiple times in the stomach on Friday morning in West Bay, Walton said that anyone who […]
CIG seeks shift in driving culture to end road deaths
(CNS): With tens of thousands of cars being imported into the Cayman Islands every year and a rapidly growing population driving around on an inadequate network, Cayman’s roads have become increasingly dangerous. As a result, the government has launched a National Road Safety Strategy (NRSS) with the aim of eliminating serious crashes within the next […]
Ballistic hub helps track rent-a-gun crime
(CNS): There are currently 19 guns on the streets of Cayman that have been used in multiple crimes, the police commissioner has revealed, and another 66 used in at least one that haven’t been recovered. Police have a much better understanding of the illegal firearms currently on the road that are being reused in different […]
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 […]
Jamaican murder suspect rounded up in Cayman
(CNS): The RCIPS has deported an unnamed Jamaican man back to the neighbouring island after they were alerted by their law enforcement partners there that a murder suspect had travelled to the Cayman Islands. The RCIPS said that officers worked in collaboration with Customs and Border Control to locate the man, who was detained on […]
CoP worried by ‘insatiable appetite’ for guns
(CNS): Over the last seven years, the RCIPS, with support from Customs and Border Control, has taken 126 illegal guns off the street, including 19 so far this year, countering what Police Commissioner Kurt Walton said was an “insatiable appetite” here for firearms. Concerned about the impact of gun crime, he told a large group […]
Weekend crime spree peaks with gang shooting
(CNS): A West Bay man is currently in critical care, having sustained multiple gunshot wounds in a gang-related attempt on his life in the early hours of Sunday morning. Police believe the man, who has not yet been identified, was gunned down by gang rivals outside a home on Gorse Lane in Birch Tree Hill, […]
