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Compass News – 29 September 2025
Students in the Brac are back at their desks, as Layman E. Scott High School reopens.
Plus, a former HSA surgeon is denying responsibility in the death of a gunshot victim.
And a special tribute for a Tigers football team-mate, brother and friend — we’ll have the details coming up.
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Cayman Compass
Commissioner: Public safe despite police staffing shortage
The public remains safe even though the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service is understaffed by 26 officers, according to Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton.
Speaking at the latest meeting of the Finance Committee on 25 Sept. to discuss government requests for $108 million in supplementary spending, Walton told MPs that to fill gaps caused by the staffing shortage, the RCIPS had had to move officers from other districts and disrupt some community policing initiatives.
Overall, Walton said there were 373 police in the RCIPS – the same number as in 2008.
There were at least 57% fewer people living in the Cayman Islands in 2008 than now and the RCIPS had 17 fewer departments in the organisation at the time. Cayman’s 2008 population was approximately 56,000 and grew to almost 88,000 by 2024, according to the Economics and Statistics Office.
