{"id":12905,"date":"2011-10-12T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=12905"},"modified":"2011-10-12T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T13:24:07","slug":"stepping-up-crime-reducing-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/10\/stepping-up-crime-reducing-strategies","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Up Crime Reducing Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) &#8212; National Security Minister, Senator Dwight Nelson, has assured that the government of Jamaica will be stepping up its strategies to further reduce the incidence of crime and violence island-wide.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Monday, to announce expanded financial support for the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), Nelson said the administration is &#8220;encouraged&#8221; by the results of the crime fighting initiatives implemented, particularly over the last 17 months, which has seen a decline in offences committed, particularly murders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We intend to step up our strategies and our approaches,&#8221; the minister said, while noting that other initiatives are being pursued.<\/p>\n<p>These, he said, include: anti-gang legislation; efforts at making the process of arrests and convictions more scientifically efficient; promulgation of DNA legislation, to facilitate more forensic evidence in court, thereby enhancing the likelihood of convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the minister pointed out that legislation is being pursued to facilitate video evidence in court, adding that, &#8220;we are looking at a number of legislation, which will make the whole process of attacking crime more efficient.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like the Bahamas, Jamaica has a serious violent crime problem. The Jamaican government has announced plans to step-up their crime-reducing initiatives and make their system more efficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31,58,219],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-crime","tag-jamaica","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}