The police need to have a sustained attack on crime and get better at infiltrating crime hot spots.
That is the view of the former second-in-command in the Royal Barbados Police Force and security expert Bertie Hinds as the island reels from a violent and deadly start to 2019.
In 12 reported cases of gunfire, three people have died and at least seven injured in two weeks.
Hinds, a retired deputy commissioner of police, who was also the second in command at the Regional Security System, queried whether the police had effective profiling of communities, in particular the hot spots in order to obtain intelligence for an informed tactical response. It would be counterproductive, he said, to continually respond reactively to the “very serious criminal activity”. (AC)
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