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Evidence-Based crime fighting highlighted
Police Commissioner Kurt Walton says he’s tackling crime with an evidence-based approach to make the Cayman Islands safer.
“Even though I may not — or we may not — be able to solve that robbery, we take the Al Capone approach: what else are those people committing out there? We know they’re in possession of firearms, so perhaps we can’t get them for robbery, perhaps we can’t get them for other types of crime, but if we pay enough attention to them, we can perhaps get them for possession of firearms. Again, it gets back to that outcome.” — Kurt Walton, Commissioner of Police
The RCIPS has 43% of reported crimes going to the courts for prosecution — a number he would like to see increase to 60%.
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Cayman Compass
Police chief claims ‘Al Capone approach’ is making Cayman safer
Cayman is using the ‘Al Capone’ approach as one of its tactics in going after violent criminals, according to police chief Kurt Walton.
Referencing the infamous Chicago gangster, who evaded crimefighters for years before being jailed for tax evasion, the commissioner said his officers were using the same tactics to go after known gunmen in Cayman.
He said the policy was paying dividends and claimed that in several cases, the people responsible for unsolved, violent crimes were now behind bars for other offences.
He cited the “watershed” mass shooting at Ed Bush stadium, in which seven people were injured last February, as one example.
