Dear Editor,
We know that the crime rate is affecting all of us. A lot of crime and robberies are done by motor cars/cycles. The number plates of motor vehicles should be metal and should be issued by GRA or the police. The government or GRA should manufacture vehicle number plates, and these should be permanently registered to a car owner. Jobs can be created by manufacturing the number plates; the number plate machines can be sourced easily. If I sell my car, I would have to take off the number plate, and when I buy another car, I would notify GRA that my number plate would be registered for the car I had bought. If the person who bought my car has never owned a car before, he would have to request a registration number for the newly acquired car. The number plates should be made of metal or aluminium, and the letters and numbers must be stamped on the plate and sprayed with reflective paint. Youths can be employed in the manufacturing of number plates. Reproducing the plate should be impossible.
Another option the government has, is to install CCTV cameras countrywide. There are a lot of IT students at UG and many who have graduated from UG who are unemployed and could be employed to install and monitor the cameras. The cameras would have to be WiFi compatible, because this will help to access the cameras’ live feed. In the event there is a robbery, individuals can call a hotline that will connect to the monitoring station to give the IT workers the location of the robbery. The IT staff can scan the cameras and track the robbers. Staff can inform the police of the robbers’ location and help track them. This form of security is being installed in many developing countries.
Another reason why the police are finding it difficult to capture criminals, is because of a lack of intelligence from the people in the community that harbour criminals. Information is needed to solve cases, to do raids, and to have an edge over persons who are waiting to commit a crime.
Yours faithfully,
Vishul Ishwaridin