Dear Editor,
It is always an outrage when someone dies. The outrage is even more if it could have been prevented or responded to sooner. I have expressed my frustration with how multiple guards, armed or unarmed, are easily overcome and lose their firearms. Guards should not travel or congregate in one place. By not doing so, they have a better chance of disrupting a robbery or calling right away for police assistance. What if one of the MMC guards were in a car or motor cycle a quarter mile in front of the car carrying the cash and another one was the same distance behind with cell phones? Would the crime go down the same way?
The Join Services and the Coast Guard must identify high crime areas that provide the best opportunities for criminals and provide for a rapid response team stationed as near to those targets as possible. Eight to nine armed men or more is harder to miss if pursuit is started early. I find it incomprehensible that a businessman reported that he was robbed the same time as a year ago, and never thought of taking any precautions. The people that have something to steal should expect someone will be looking to steal it. That is what Guyanese individuals and business people cannot seem to learn.
Yours faithfully,
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