Cabinet will decide on the future of the Special Anti-Crime Unit (Sautt), after review of a report on the unit which was received last month, National Security Minister John Sandy has said. Speaking in the Senate yesterday, Sandy said the report was delivered by a steering committee mandated to oversee Sautt's restructuring. The team submitted a report on its recommendations in December. Sandy said the report was being reviewed by Cabinet.
He said Sautt's human, physical and technological resources and assets would be considered on completion of the exercise. He added that Sautt continued to provide support to anti-crime initiatives and gather and provide intelligence to various arms of national security. He said its investigative arm was fully activated at the end of September to assist the police in addressing gang-related murders.He added that while its airship had been grounded for repairs, other assets, including its K-9 unit, were in use. Sandy also supplied details of a decrease in the number of serious crimes reported during June-November 2010. He said there was a 14 per cent decrease when compared with the corresponding period in 2009. For the period June 1 to December 8, 2010, he noted a grand total of 9,757 crimes.
Crimes
Totals for Individual categories:
Murders - 232
Woundings and shootings - 294
Kidnappings - 50
Sexual offences - 396
Burglaries and break-ins - 2,440
Robberies - 2,569
Fraud - 96
General larceny - 2,032
Motor vehicle larceny - 656
Larceny (House) - 304
Malicious damage - 321
Narcotic offences - 251
Other serious crimes - 116