JAMES Smith, Commissioner of Police, believes that a small group of individuals are responsible for the majority of violent crime that takes place in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
He expressed these thoughts during a police press conference held at the police headquarters in Providenciales on Thursday (April 27).
Commissioner Smith referred to the statistics which he gave at the press conference, stating that from April 1, 2016, to March 30, 2017, there have been 111 reports of incidents involving firearms.
One of the media houses asked why it is so difficult for police to capture these criminals since police believed that there are small numbers, adding emphasis to the fact that Providenciales is a small island.
Smith explained that some of the criminals live in areas that are a bit more challenging to access.
The Commissioner of Police added that this does not mean that police would not go in these areas, just that the circumstances made it more difficult to locate the individuals and firearms.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Rodney Adams agreed with Commissioner Smith, stating that he too believed that a small group of individuals were out committing most of the crime heard of in the TCI.
