{"id":246428,"date":"2005-01-12T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/police-indicate-drop-in-serious-crime-for-2004-over-2003"},"modified":"2005-01-12T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T15:49:27","slug":"police-indicate-drop-in-serious-crime-for-2004-over-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/police-indicate-drop-in-serious-crime-for-2004-over-2003","title":{"rendered":"Police Indicate Drop in Serious Crime For 2004 Over 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serious crime dropped by nine per cent throughout the Bahamas in 2004, according to the latest police figures disclosed yesterday.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPreliminary reports indicate a significant fall in serious offences including murder, armed robbery and rape compared to 2003 crime figures.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe 2004 crime reports were released during the annual police conference yesterday, as several top members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBDF) addressed assembled officers and the press.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nOther topics included community participation in crime fighting, the progress of war on drugs and police corruption.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSpeakers included Police Commissioner Paul Farquharson and Assistant Commissioner in charge of crime Reginald Ferguson, who said that police are &#8220;generally pleased&#8221; with the findings for 2004.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: Paco Nunez, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary reports indicate a significant fall in serious offences including murder, armed robbery and rape compared to 2003 crime figures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246428","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}