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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Police outline tight security measures as Grenada marks 50th anniversary of independence

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559 days ago
20240207

Po­lice have called on li­censed firearm hold­ers to lodge their weapon “at a se­cure place in­clud­ing po­lice sta­tions” as they an­nounced a ban on sev­er­al items be­ing al­lowed in­to venues as Grena­da cel­e­brates its 50thanniver­sary of po­lit­i­cal in­de­pen­dence from Britain on Wednes­day.

A state­ment from the Of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice said that a num­ber of items in­clud­ing firearms or any of­fen­sive weapon, break­able bot­tles, over­size cool­ers and pots would not be per­mit­ted in­to the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, on In­de­pen­dence Day “nor the venue of any oth­er ac­tiv­i­ty dur­ing this pe­ri­od of In­de­pen­dence cel­e­bra­tions.

“Hold­ers of li­censed firearms are ad­vised to lodge such firearms at a se­cure place, in­clud­ing po­lice sta­tions, when at­tend­ing such ac­tiv­i­ties. We re­mind the pub­lic that this pro­to­col is ap­plic­a­ble to all mass crowd events at any time of year,” the state­ment said.

The po­lice said they were al­so “strong­ly” cau­tion­ing against the “in­dis­crim­i­nate and un­law­ful use of firearms in gen­er­al” and that “per­sons in pos­ses­sion of un­law­ful firearms are en­cour­aged to turn them in to the po­lice.

“Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the en­trance gates at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um will be manned and search­es will be con­duct­ed on in­di­vid­u­als,” the po­lice added.

Prime Min­is­ter Dick­on Mitchell and the vis­it­ing Pres­i­dent Nana Ad­do Dankwa Aku­fo-Ad­do of Ghana are due to ad­dress a ral­ly at the Na­tion­al Sta­di­um lat­er on Wednes­day. The ral­ly will al­so be at­tend­ed by vis­it­ing re­gion­al politi­cians and mem­bers of the diplo­mat­ic corps.

CMC/ls/ir/2024


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