Cops better equipped

IDENTIFICATION of firearms coming to and moving from Barbados should be clearer after a donation of firearms-marking equipment yesterday to Government for use by the police.
The equipment, provided by the Organization of American States (OAS), is aimed at the overall strengthening of “public security”, something which the OAS deemed as high priority as it interacts with its member states.
Francis McBarnette, OAS representative here, said at the presentation at police headquarters that the regional agreement to provide the equipment was signed “on the margins” of the last General Assembly in El Salvador.
The agreement provides for computer hardware and software, logistical and methodological support. (JS)
 
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