Chester Sam­bra­no

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood- Christo­pher has said that the 37th An­nu­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice (AC­CP)Con­fer­ence, com­ing in rapid suc­ces­sion to the Re­gion­al Sym­po­sium on Crime, was es­pe­cial­ly sig­nif­i­cant.

In a me­dia re­lease, Hare­wood-Christo­pher said Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice in col­lab­o­ra­tion with oth­er key law en­force­ment part­ners were able to en­gage in ex­ten­sive and in-depth di­a­logue and plan­ning in mat­ters re­lat­ed to the se­cu­ri­ty of our in­di­vid­ual coun­tries and the Caribbean re­gion as a whole.

She echoed the sen­ti­ments of Ed­win Mar­tin, Com­mis­sion­er Po­lice for the Roy­al Grena­da Po­lice Force and out­go­ing Pres­i­dent of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice, that the con­fer­ence was not a talk shop and that the cit­i­zens of the re­gion can look for­ward to ben­e­fit­ing from tan­gi­ble out­comes.

She said Com­mis­sion­er Mar­tin an­nounced the fi­nal­iza­tion of plans for the

es­tab­lish­ment of a re­gion­al repos­i­to­ry of plans, ideas, con­cepts and strate­gies that Com­mis­sion­ers of the re­gion and mem­bers of the As­so­ci­a­tion can ac­cess and adapt to ad­dress their unique lo­cal cir­cum­stances.

Hare­wood-Christo­pher said it was al­so an­nounced that the fi­nal­iza­tion of a new strate­gic plan for the AC­CP, the roadmap for Com­mis­sion­ers to col­lab­o­rate and work to­geth­er with re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al bod­ies to lever­age train­ing, equip­ment, and oth­er sup­port need­ed to ad­vance their agen­da for safer com­mu­ni­ties across the re­gion, is al­so very im­mi­nent.

"The con­fer­ence pro­vid­ed a con­ducive en­vi­ron­ment for ven­dors to dis­play the new, vi­tal and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy, sys­tems and re­sources that can be used in the fight against crime and for col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween del­e­gates and ex­hibitors, and the po­lice and pri­vate en­ter­prise," she said.