Let’s share!

Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson. (FP)

Wed, December 05, 2012 - 12:10 AM

Caribbean law enforcement agencies must not consider the term “turf” when it comes to fighting crime, Barbados’ Chief Justice Sir Marston Gibson told regional police chiefs yesterday.

When crime fighting and prevention agencies engage in turf war and refuse to share assets and information, “the only winner is the criminal”, the Chief Justice said.

Delivering the feature address at the opening of a two-day meeting of the Association of Caribbean Commissioners of Police (ACCP) at Divi Southwinds Hotel, St Lawrence, Christ Church, Sir Marston said the sharing of information should be “a natural response and a natural instinct”.

The Chief Justice cited instances where deportees from the United States and Britain returned to the region with sophisticated understandings of how best to carry out their criminal product.

“What had happened was there were people getting arrested, getting tried, being sentenced and sent to prison, but the prison did not know they were deportees . . . and so these criminals were essentially outwitting those at the prison,” he said. (CA)

Please read the full story in today’s MIDWEEK NATION, or in the eNATION edition.

Share your thoughts

Please sign in or register to post your comments.

Page 1 of 1 pages

Posted by J. Payne 5 months, 2 weeks ago: Yep. It's also been written some share tips in prison on how to perfect their craft and in so doing create micro-copies of themselves. Those minions might be upgrading their own caliber of sophistication and the entire criminal component in the country gets a tune up. So the police in Barbados need to spend some time in America, Britain, Canada and these other places and come back with updated know-how, or outside police from abroad need to be brought in to level the playing-field.