TNT Insider Staff | April 25, 2009 | Crime

Crime expert gets going

Retired Canadian General Cameron Ross, 60, who has been hired by the Government to advise the country on how to deal with the runaway crime problem is already on the job.


Ross may be a complete stranger to Trinidad and Tobago but he hopes to achieve what successive police commissioners, Government ministers the Scotland Yard, American crime experts Thomas Clayton and Professor Stephen Mastrofski failed to do.

Professor Mastrofski was paid a whopping $81 million for his anti-crime plan.

The results are there for the world to see – a record 500-plus murders in 2008.

There has been no word on what this new expert is being paid – but he is off and running with a team of three.

It is understood that he has already met with National Security Minister Martin Joseph in Port of Spain and will be meeting other officials.

Not many people believe that this new initiative will work.

A commentary to Tntinsider pointed out that “the Government can create anti-crime plans until it is blue in the face. We can have a million high profile experts but there is one simple truth we must all face – plans must be implemented.”

The reader of our online newspaper further pointed out that it was a question of getting the police to do their job and he related a personal experience of his car being stolen and the Cunupia police refusing to take action.

There were similar views expressed in man-in-the-street polls. People interviewed simply did not hold out much success for this new crime initiative.

The Tntinsider will be keeping an eagle eye on this new move by the Government to contain the crime wave.

Comments

One Response to “Crime expert gets going”

  1. James on April 25th, 2009 10:40 am

    Great to see my comments being incorporated into an article, but one correction – it was not my car that was stolen.

    I’m sure there are hundreds, if not thousands, of similar complaints about the police service — more correctly, the lack thereof. Perhaps TNTinsider can do an entire article devoted to the responses to one of these man in the street polls.

    Let’s get some more real voices.