As the holiday season approaches crime prevention officer, Inspector Stephen Griffith, is urging people to pay more attention to their personal safety and securing their homes. He pointed to the use of desolate ATMs or those where people are loitering, leaving many packages in unattended vehicles and women carrying cellphones in their back pockets. “A lot of people sometimes travel with too much money on them. Never travel with anything …
End De Violence Premiere, A Call to Action
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It is not the duty of the Barbados Police Service (BPS) only to end the scourge of crime and violence. It’s a task for all of society, starting in the home, says Crime Prevention Specialist Inspector Stephen Griffith.Speaking on Friday evening at the premiere of End De Violence - The Series screening put on by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment at Olympus Theatre, Sheraton Mall Christ Church, Griffith pleaded with Barbadians to play their respective roles and lead lives dedicated to anti-violence.“It is not the police force’s responsibility only. It is an all-country responsibility. I am asked from time to time, ‘What is the police force doing about the violence’. Well, the police force did not raise your child. It starts in the home,” he suggested.The senior police officer defended the work of the BPS saying that they collaborate with several organisations to stamp out crime but he said parents must also support their children to become law-abiding cit
Anyone found in possession of an offensive weapon in a public setting without a reasonable excuse or lawful authority is liable to six months imprisonment or a fine of $1 000. That was the reminder from Inspector Stephen Griffith, Crime Prevention Officer in the Barbados Police Service, via an audio statement yesterday. He said they have been seeing more young people carrying flick and ratchet knives and when they queried …
On September 1st we published an Editorial quoting the Commissioner of Police at the height of a spike in criminal activity.At the time, Commissioner of the Barbados Police Service (COP) Richard Boyce told Barbadians that they had identified the root of the gun menace plaguing our small island.He said: “We know that there are some groups, two to three groups, which are creating most of the problems for us. We know who they are and we are working tirelessly, assiduously in dealing with those groups. Once we get to the bottom of it, once we are able to dismantle those groups, I think that we will be able to go into public spaces without that fear.”But this is where the Commissioner’s comments raised more than a few eyebrows and triggered robust debate.
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