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Crime up but calls for service down
Despite fewer calls for service in 2024, crime across the Cayman Islands is on the rise.
The RCIPS has released its latest figures, and our journalist Andrel Harris breaks down the key findings — and the biggest concerns.
Crime in the Cayman Islands rose by 7% in 2024 — with more than 270 more offences reported compared to the year before.
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RCIPS: Lower resources led to drop in traffic summonses
Police issued 3,139 fewer traffic summonses last year than in 2023. That decrease, however, was driven by a lack of resources in the RCIPS’s traffic unit rather than better driving.
Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton, speaking at a press briefing on the annual crime and traffic statistics on Wednesday, noted that he’d had to pull officers from the traffic division and several other units of the RCIPS to help investigate the mass shooting at the Ed Bush Stadium last year.
Seven people were injured in that shooting, which led to the re-assignment of officers from across the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service to concentrate on gang- and firearm-related crime.
