New Category : Crime
Man shot and killed on Tyler Street
Fri, Oct 13th 2023, 07:10 AM
Police say that a man has died after being shot on Tyler Street off Boyd Road. This is a developing story.
This latest incident comes on the heels of a homicide in the Chippingham area on Thursday. A man in his twenties was shot and killed by a masked gunman on Baldwin Avenue in Chippingham around 10 a.m. Thursday while standing outside a carwash where he was employed.
Father arrested after boy reportedly shoots himself
Thu, Oct 12th 2023, 10:20 AM
Police have broken gun trafficking ring, COP says
Tue, Oct 3rd 2023, 09:19 AM
Cuban Migrants Detained Along Exuma Chain
Mon, Oct 2nd 2023, 01:54 PM
Man dies after Garden Hills shooting
Mon, Oct 2nd 2023, 09:28 AM
Man accused of molesting two sisters aged 9 and 6
Fri, Sep 29th 2023, 08:46 AM
A 23-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after he was accused of molesting his nine and six-year-old sisters last week.
Man granted leave to appeal murder conviction
Mon, Sep 25th 2023, 09:00 AM
Man denied bail ahead of trial
Mon, Sep 25th 2023, 08:36 AM
39 Foreign Nationals Convicted In The Magistrate’s Court
Fri, Sep 22nd 2023, 10:28 AM
Man fined $40k after police found drugs, ammo at his home
Thu, Sep 21st 2023, 09:38 AM
Munroe defends scheme he said was fake news
Thu, Sep 21st 2023, 08:51 AM
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe defended the Royal Bahamas Police Force's new arrest incentive system yesterday, comparing it to schemes for teachers or people who work in banks.
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe defended the Royal Bahamas Police Force's new arrest incentive system yesterday, comparing it to schemes for teachers or people who work in banks. He said there is no budget to give cash awards to officers. It remains unclear how the officers will be rewarded. Mr Munroe previously dismissed reports of the incentive scheme as “fake news”. Yesterday, he said he was referring to officers getting cash prizes when he did this. “Nobody is paid for it,” he told reporters. “And that was what I was responding to. They have no budget to pay anyone for it. “What was being suggested was they were being paid in money. As far as I’m aware, they’re not paid money. As far as I’m aware, there’s no budget to pay them. In every field, whatever your performance standard is, you’re judged by it.” When Mr Munroe told The Tribune “fake news”, it was in response to a question for comment about the leaked document. No question about any financial award was posed. Mr Munroe said other organisations have provided employees with different forms of incentives. “If you go to the bank, there will be an employee of the quarter,” he said. “Every school you go to, there’s a teacher of the year, and they get special parking.” Asked if he approves of the incentive system, he said he doesn’t run the operation of the police force. “I know that when they send me recommendations for promotions, which we’re undergoing now, they assess officers’ performance because clearly, you want to promote the performing people because that’s the whole point of it,” he said. “As I understand, that operation is about interdicting guns off the street so surely you want to judge my performance by how many guns I interdict.” The system awards points to teams based on the number of arrests made for major or minor offences. It also awards points for stopping and searching people and for issuing tickets. “In the bank, you judge a banker’s performance by how many loans they write or how many delinquencies they do,” Mr Munroe said. “The commissioner has said this is something to incentivise performance, and the public is to be kept safe by uninsured, unlicensed cars being off the street, guns being off the street, criminals being off the street. People who are wanted under warrants of arrest being arrested and taken off the streets. Surely, you incentivise the police to perform to those targets.” He added: “I imagine that in the promotional exercise coming up, one of the measures of people to be promoted will be their performance. I would hope it is driven by their performance.” Last week, Human Rights Bahamas said the police force should disclose the reward officers will receive through the new arrest incentive programme, calling the competition ill-conceived. “We are already dealing with an alarmingly high rate of police brutality claims and officer-involved killings,” HRB said. “Officers are routinely accused of threatening and torturing suspects to obtain coerced confessions, and videos of police misconduct of various kinds have proliferated in recent times. “At the same time, violent crime has placed even the most well-meaning and professional officers under extreme stress to achieve results. “There is no question that such an incentive scheme runs a huge risk of enticing officers to make false arrests on little or no evidence, seriously violating the human rights of members of the public as a result. It could easily spin out of control with catastrophic and far-reaching consequences for the public’s faith in law enforcement.”
He said there is no budget to give cash awards to officers. It remains unclear how the officers will be rewarded.
Mr Munroe previously dismissed reports of the incentive scheme as “fake news”. Yesterday, he said he was referring to officers getting cash prizes when he did this. “Nobody is paid for it,” he told reporters. “And that was what I was responding to. They have no budget to pay anyone for it.
“What was being suggested was they were being paid in money. As far as I’m aware, they’re not paid money. As far as I’m aware, there’s no budget to pay them. In every field, whatever your performance standard is, you’re judged by it.”
When Mr Munroe told The Tribune “fake news”, it was in response to a question for comment about the leaked document. No question about any financial award was posed.
Mr Munroe said other organisations have provided employees with different forms of incentives.
“If you go to the bank, there will be an employee of the quarter,” he said. “Every school you go to, there’s a teacher of the year, and they get special parking.”
Asked if he approves of the incentive system, he said he doesn’t run the operation of the police force.
“I know that when they send me recommendations for promotions, which we’re undergoing now, they assess officers’ performance because clearly, you want to promote the performing people because that’s the whole point of it,” he said. “As I understand, that operation is about interdicting guns off the street so surely you want to judge my performance by how many guns I interdict.”
The system awards points to teams based on the number of arrests made for major or minor offences. It also awards points for stopping and searching people and for issuing tickets.
“In the bank, you judge a banker’s performance by how many loans they write or how many delinquencies they do,” Mr Munroe said. “The commissioner has said this is something to incentivise performance, and the public is to be kept safe by uninsured, unlicensed cars being off the street, guns being off the street, criminals being off the street. People who are wanted under warrants of arrest being arrested and taken off the streets. Surely, you incentivise the police to perform to those targets.”
He added: “I imagine that in the promotional exercise coming up, one of the measures of people to be promoted will be their performance. I would hope it is driven by their performance.”
Last week, Human Rights Bahamas said the police force should disclose the reward officers will receive through the new arrest incentive programme, calling the competition ill-conceived.
“We are already dealing with an alarmingly high rate of police brutality claims and officer-involved killings,” HRB said.
“Officers are routinely accused of threatening and torturing suspects to obtain coerced confessions, and videos of police misconduct of various kinds have proliferated in recent times.
“At the same time, violent crime has placed even the most well-meaning and professional officers under extreme stress to achieve results.
“There is no question that such an incentive scheme runs a huge risk of enticing officers to make false arrests on little or no evidence, seriously violating the human rights of members of the public as a result. It could easily spin out of control with catastrophic and far-reaching consequences for the public’s faith in law enforcement.”
American visitor found dead on cruise ship
Thu, Sep 21st 2023, 08:44 AM
Two arrested after probe into fake licence discs
Wed, Sep 20th 2023, 03:43 PM
21 Foreign Nationals Convicted In The Magistrate’s Court
Mon, Sep 18th 2023, 10:31 AM
44 Haitian Nationals Repatriated
Thu, Sep 14th 2023, 10:41 AM
One dead, two in hospital after shooting
Fri, Sep 8th 2023, 12:48 PM
A man is dead and two more people are in hospital after a shooting on Thursday night.
Police look into alleged abuse by senior officer
Thu, Sep 7th 2023, 08:56 AM
Privy council orders man's resentencing
Thu, Sep 7th 2023, 08:53 AM
Man in custody on charge of molesting 5-year-old boy
Wed, Sep 6th 2023, 02:09 PM
Paralysed man shot while sitting outside his home
Wed, Sep 6th 2023, 12:00 PM