{"id":45755,"date":"2014-01-03T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/governments-anti-crime-initiatives"},"modified":"2014-01-03T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T15:08:39","slug":"governments-lame-anti-crime-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/01\/governments-lame-anti-crime-initiatives","title":{"rendered":"Government&#8217;s Lame Anti-Crime Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the strategies that the PLP says they will use to combat crime.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them have already been implemented in the government&#8217;s normal half-assed way&#8230; so they haven&#8217;t done a bit of good.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the other ideas will, no doubt, either never come to fruition or will also be implemented in a way that also makes them ineffective.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Improvement and expansion of the capabilities of the Situation Room to collect and analyse data and to positively influence co-ordination of policing operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Contracting out vehicle repairs and maintenance to private vehicle repair establishments as means of ensuring that the full fleet of police vehicles is available for the war on crime<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Effecting improvements to the EMT (emergency medical technician) programme<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Appointment of new judges and public defenders<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Improved intelligence-gathering capability<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Expanded CCTV coverage<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Targeting of prolific offenders especially those on bail and especially bail for murders or other violent crimes<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Expanded use of reserve officers<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Accelerated training of new recruits<\/p>\n<p id=\"h48105-p10\">\u2022 Expanded use of plainclothes officers and adoption of the \u201cStrike Force\u201d strategy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/dec\/31\/anti-crime-initiatives\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Expanded use of plainclothes officers and adoption of the \u201cStrike Force\u201d strategy<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Legislative intervention aimed at prolific or career criminals, with stiffer penalties for firearm use and trafficking, witness intimidation and other serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Formation of a Gang Unit<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Consideration of a gun amnesty\/ buy back\/ exchange\/ bounty<\/p>\n<p id=\"h48105-p14\">\u2022 Special court for firearm cases<\/p>\n<p>BTW:\u00a0 Whatever happened to the PLP being&#8221;ready to hit the ground running&#8221; with all the crime fighting solutions they said they had all ready to go while they were in campaign mode back in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The PLP brass wasn&#8217;t lying back then were they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLP government rehashes crime fighting strategies that were either already supposed to have been implemented or have failed due to incompetent implementation and management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[12],"tags":[93,31,40,60],"class_list":["post-45755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-government","tag-plp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}