Crimes Control Council discusses solution to street violence
The year 2009 closed with a barrage of shootings, murders and a grenade attack in which one person was killed. It is the number one public concern and this morning on Open Your Eyes the Chairman of the Crime Control Council outlined the work of the council to monitor the crime situation and make recommendations to curb crime. According to attorney Michael Young, the proposals address enforcement and the underlying causes of violence.
Michael Young, Chairman, Crimes Control Council
“We identified quite a few areas but we started off with the police department as a core area and quite a bit of work has been done in relation to that. There have been recommendations as well which, as I say, had to do with the operation Jobs and Cleaning and then we are just making some recommendations to the prime minister and in fact a document was sent to him just before new years on the thirtieth of December 2009. The second area that we are looking at is the legal system and in relation to that we have interviewed a number of eminent persons in the legal system including the Chief Justice, which was very enlightening; the Attorney General; we have interviewed Justice Distinguished Denys Barrow; and we’re looking into interviewing the registrar and also the former registrar and from all of that we’re going to create specific recommendations to issue. Then from there we will come up with a plan which has to do with Social Security records so that we can have records on an ongoing basis that they will inform the various agencies what is happening out there in society and indeed the coordination and correlation between the Social Security and the Police Department. Then a very, very important and core area is education because the importance of education in addressing the crime problem cannot be overstated. If you go and you look at the crime statistics internationally, what you will find is a great correlation between countries that have strong systems of education in relation to crime.”
