Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon said Cabinet has granted its approval to staff the data entry system of the Crime Observatory.
Luncheon told a post-Cabinet press briefing last week that over 40 police stations and access points are on the network and approved staffing would enable the inputting of prescribed data and information on criminal occurrences at the various stations and other offices to be transmitted electronically to the central data recording and analysis centre at the Observatory, according to a Government Information Agency press release.
“This information flow is designed to be done daily and the analysis in the centre is designed to be ongoing,” Dr Luncheon said, resulting in a comprehensive, nationwide daily compilation of specified criminal activities being almost instantly available for dissemination and analysis. The intention is that the said analysis would reveal trends which when properly used can inform and boost planning and crime fighting techniques.
Dr Luncheon said this body is a more civilian-oriented unit that is being administered by the Ministry of Home Affairs and as such a majority of the staff was recruited from within the ministry but members of the joint services, particularly from the Guyana Police Force also comprise this unit.
