National Security and Crime ? taking back our ... - Kaieteur News

The issue of crime and security continues to be uppermost in the minds of most Guyanese citizens. Today, the AFC offers the following recommendations as first outlined in our Action Plan of 2011.
We look forward to seeing the Government?s current plan as referred to by the Minister of Home Affairs and hope that in the coming months all Guyanese ? women suffering domestic abuse, miners in the fields and many more, might begin to feel safer at home.
Extract:
Crime solutions are vital to the revival of the nation. Crime is stifling genuine investment opportunities, affecting the well-being of our working people and is one of the principal contributors to skilled human capital migrating from Guyana.
The increase of deadly crimes under the current administration has seen very few criminals brought to justice and levels of domestic violence are now out of control.
General Strategies
The AFC plans to confront organised crime and redress the breakdown of law and order by:
1. Increasing substantially law enforcement officers? salaries;
2. Giving the DEA permission to set up a local facility;
3. Re-engaging the British, USA and other friendly Governments for technical and financial assistance to reform the Joint Services;
4. Removing corrupt officers from the Joint Services;
5. Mandating a jail term of life in prison after three convictions for violent felonies;
6. Extraditing drug kingpins and terrorists;
7. Putting more police officers on the street by hiring civilians for desk work;
8. Boosting the efficiency, operation and powers of the Police Complaints Authority to ensure that all complaints are brought to finality and make it accessible to citizens;
9. Facilitating a system that would allow members of the Joint Services to work in the administrative region of their choice where practical;
10. Establishing a Group of Forensic Auditors to reduce corruption and white collar crimes and facilitate civilian oversight.
Strategy Number One: Empowering Agencies and Institutions
1. Establish a Ministry of Justice and National Security (MJNS) to better coordinate all aspects of public safety, border security, and public order;
2. Develop a National Security Strategy (NSS);
3. Appoint a specialised Anti-Crime Unit (ACU) comprising GDF and GPF personnel in all Police Divisions and to be headed by a GDF officer on secondment to confront violent and armed criminals;
4. Establish a unified Drug Enforcement and Control Agency (DECA) to coordinate and execute drug enforcement policy between the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU), the Police Anti-Narcotics Unit (PANU), DEA, INTERPOL and other agencies;
5. Establish a specialised Law Enforcement Academy (LEA) to train officers in crime investigation, intelligence gathering and forensics;
6. Create a special office within the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions for the use of Special Prosecutors, to prosecute persons accused of certain categories of offences;
7. Start the Police/Schools partnership programme by assigning a dedicated officer to each school with whom they can work on ?Get to know the Police? workshops, etc;
8. Construct a modern prison with new, appropriate and humane facilities for women, juveniles and remand prisoners outside of the city;
9. Allow more prisoners to do community work and provide a nominal stipend at the end of their term;
10. Develop rehabilitation programmes in prisons and provide academic education, vocational and technical training for prisoners to better prepare them for reintegration into society.
11. Review the station bail and remand system and procedures.
Strategy Number Two: Legislation
1. Introduce legislation to legitimize and regulate Community Policing and establish Citizens Protection Units (CPUs) in keeping with best practices globally;
2. Review and consolidate all criminal law and criminal procedure-related legislation;
3. Implement an amnesty programme for the surrender of illegal weapons, which will be backed by a ?Voluntary Weapons Collection? programme;
4. The Amnesty programme will be accompanied by a special fund to provide alternative opportunities for training, development of income-generating projects, credit etc. for youth at risk and sports, scouting, and other cadet-like schemes for youth in schools and religious organizations;
5. Pass Legislation to establish neighbourhood justice panels of village elders to adjudicate on petty matters such as anti-social behaviour and family disputes to free up the court?s time for more serious matter

More of the AFC?s recommendations for improving National Security and Crime next week.

Source: http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com/2013/01/27/national-security-and-crime-taking-back-our-communities/

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