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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Better strategy needed for illegal arms

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20140817

That there is a need to in­ves­ti­gate the dis­ap­pear­ance of 40 guns from the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St James should be a source of clear and un­equiv­o­cal shame for the Po­lice Ser­vice.Last Mon­day, the Po­lice Ser­vice's pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer, In­spec­tor Wayne Mys­tar, an­nounced that 40 guns, some of them high-pow­ered ri­fles, were stolen some time be­tween last year and Ju­ly af­ter be­ing tak­en to the cen­tre for bal­lis­tic test­ing.

It's sim­ply not good enough for act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Stephen Williams to state last Tues­day that the po­lice were con­cerned about the miss­ing guns.Even Mr Williams's very per­son­al de­c­la­ra­tion that the in­ci­dent is a "ma­jor con­cern," falls far short of the kind of re­sponse that the in­ci­dent should spark with­in the ser­vice.

Giv­en the enor­mous in­vest­ment in man­pow­er and in­ves­tiga­tive re­sources that are in­vest­ed in find­ing even a sin­gle weapon, it should have been clear that cap­tured weapons should be both prop­er­ly se­cured and made in­op­er­a­ble.Where is the com­mit­ment to en­sure that foren­sic analy­sis of weapons will be ex­pe­dit­ed af­ter seizure? How dif­fi­cult is it to fire a test bul­let or two through a gun to cap­ture its ri­fling sig­na­ture?

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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