The Guyana Police Force is soon to electronically monitor its mobile patrols to ensure they perform assigned duties, Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell said today.
“We will be having a demonstration on how it works soon …and then we hope that not long afterwards, given that the benefits work for us we will have them in our patrol vehicles so if the police call in to say there are here or there that it is indeed so,” Brumell told Stabroek News.
He said that International Pharmaceutical Agency which also supplies security surveillance gadgets will be the company to provide the demonstration.
Brumell said that he believes that this coupled with intensified police patrols throughout the city can assist in bringing the level of robberies down.
Speaking at a press conference the GPF held this morning in the wake of a spate of robberies, the Commissioner reiterated his call for members of the public to assist the police by reporting any suspicious activities they see. He said too that businesses can do their part by cutting back on the use of liquid cash “moving from cash to plastic” among other security strategies.
He said that while crimes seemed to the public to have increased it should not be alarmed as statistics for the same period last year showed a decline. However while the force is always working to have lower numbers it is revisiting strategies and has made active adjustments that would coincide with community policing support.
