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Drink-drive limit change hasn’t reduced DUIs or crashes
In October 2022, Cayman reduced its legal blood-alcohol limit for driving from 0.1% to 0.07%. More than two-and-a-half years later, police are acknowledging that this has made little or no difference to DUI cases or collisions in the islands.
RCIPS Superintendent Roje Williams, speaking at a police media briefing on 14 May, when asked about the impact of the drink-driving limit change, responded, “I think, based on the data, nothing really has changed in terms of DUI.”
In 2023, the first year of statistics available after the reduced limit was introduced, police made 282 DUI arrests. Last year, police made 281 DUI arrests.
Of those arrested last year, 67% were found to be double the new drink-drive limit and 25% were three times or more over the limit.
“In short, what we’ve seen is that most persons are still hitting well over the [0.1%] limit, as it was previously,” Williams said.
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Cayman Compass
Reported sex crimes increased 21%
The Cayman Islands saw a 21% rise in reported sexual offences last year compared to 2023, mostly due to an increase in rape and indecent exposure incidents, police say.
The rise in such offences contributed to an increase of 7% in overall crime, according to the 2024 crime statistics released by the RCIPS at a media briefing last week.
Police noted that a third of the sex crimes investigated last year were solved, leading to a caution, charge or court summons, while 40% remain open and under “active investigation”. The remaining 27% have been closed with no charges brought.
