Public must know sex offenders
Wednesday 16 December 2020
THE EDITOR: In a recent statement the head of the Gender-Based Violence Unit, Supt Claire Guy-Alleyne of the police service, made it clear that no one will be registered as a sex offender unless due process is completed.
However, neither Guy-Alleyne nor the Commissioner of Police has advocated for the registry to be accessible to the general public.
The intent should be to protect children by giving people access to the registry so they can know who the sex offenders are and where they reside.
But the registry is only for use in police investigations when it should have been designed to provide awareness.