Tag: RCIPS
CIG to buy higher quality CCTV kit
(CNS): Cabinet is now looking at investing in top of the line CCTV that can produce evidence-quality footage, even at night, for the police, the premier has said. Sympathizing with the fears people have about giving evidence on the record in gang-related crime, Alden McLaughlin said the current CCTV system could be upgraded to help […]
CoP: We know who the killers are
(CNS): The police commissioner has said that his officers know who killed Victor Yates and David Ebanks because witnesses have told them but so far they have no one willing to go to court to testify. David Baines said that neither Ebanks nor Yates were active gang members but were shot by known local gunmen, […]
Sleeping woman had narrow escape in shooting
(CNS): Police have revealed that a number of shots were fired by the gunman, or gunmen, on Friday night that killed 20-year-old David Ebanks and a sleeping woman had a very narrow escape. Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Kay said that two stray bullets, fired when Ebanks was shot outside Undra’s jerk stand, hit a nearby […]
Cops postpone public meetings after killings
(CNS): With two unsolved murders in West Bay within the first month of the year to deal with, the RCIPS has postponed a series of public meetings in the eastern districts scheduled for this coming week. An RCIPS spokesperson said that the meetings planned for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings in Bodden Town, North Side and […]
Cops urge public to come to district meetings
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) will be holding a series of community meetings later this month in the districts on Grand Cayman and residents are urged to come out and discuss the issues of security and safety impacting their districts with police. The meetings will be hosted by the district commanders and community officers […]
Six cops on leave face criminal charges
(CNS): The latest results of an FOI request have revealed that ten police and fire officers have been suspended from duty as a result of criminal charges and investigations. One police constable has been paid to stay at home since June 2009 due to an ongoing criminal case. There are six police officers and four firefighters currently […]
Mugging victim kicked and punched in George Town
(CNS): A man was assaulted and robbed on Eastern Avenue in the very early hours of Saturday. Police said that the victim had just left a business establishment in the vicinity of Dolphin Centre around 12:47am on 10 January and was waiting for friends when he was approached by two or three males who assaulted and demanded his cell phone and […]
Two-wheel riders take brunt of collisions
(CNS): A 56-year-old man from George Town was airlifted to a hospital in Miami on Wednesday after being knocked off his motorbike on the Easterly Tibbetts Highway near the junction with Raleigh Quay on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a woman is currently in the George Town hospital recovering for injuries she sustained Thursday lunchtime when she was […]
Answers needed in cop gun case
(CNS): Government needs to offer an explanation to the public over why a police officer who carried a firearm through airport security was not arrested and treated as any other person would have been. MLA Ezzard Miller has said that the authorities need to answer questions over why Detective Inspector Lauriston Burton was given special […]
Cops step up patrols in face of violence
(CNS): The RCIPS is increasing the presence of uniformed officers in the district of West Bay as well as armed response units in the wake of another shooting in the district Monday night, which followed the murder of Victor Oliver Yates on 3 January. Police have seized a vehicle found in Miss Daisy Lane that an […]
OT’s security advisor may be moonlighting
(CNS): The man employed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as its security advisor for the overseas territories also has his own private security company, which he appears to run from his home in Palmetto Bay, Florida, presenting a serious, potential conflict of interest.
