Police seek to increase awareness about crime prevention

Police embarked on a nationwide initiative yesterday to raise awareness in key business and shopping districts about crime prevention just a few days away from the holidays.
Dozens of officers patrolled the Southwest Plaza and the Harbour Bay Shopping Centre, distributing pamphlets with crime prevention guidelines to business owners and staff.
Superintendent of Police Stephen Dean said the initiat...

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Crime Prevention Seminar

Monday 28th November 2011  8:30 AM

Crime Prevention Seminar

November 28th, 2011
Paul Farquharson Conference Center

Session 1
8:30am. Opening Ceremony And Welcome Remarks
National Anthem
prayer
Remarks: Winston Rolle, Bahamas Chamber Of Commerce and employers confederation
Ellison Greenslade, Commissioner Of Police
The HON. Tommy Turnquest, Minister Of National Security

9:30am. Results of economic crime survey-Edmun...

Crime Prevention Seminar

Wednesday 16th November 2011  8:30 AM

If you are in business today crime has to be an agenda on your management meetings. Join us for this half day session to combat crime as we approach the holiday season. Additionally, this seminar is designed to develop an ongoing action plan for the continued focus on crime against business while expanding to a national initiative........Detailed agenda to follow.......

Police Commissioner hails Harry C. Moore Library design in crime prevention

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Impressed with the functional, ultra-modern design and technological features of the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre at The College of The Bahamas, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade and his senior team are considering a few of those same elements in future designs for Royal Bahamas Police Force structures.

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Police Commissioner hails Harry C. Moore Library design in crime prevention

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Impressed with the functional, ultra-modern design and technological features of the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre at The College of The Bahamas, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade and his senior team are considering a few of those same elements in future designs for Royal Bahamas Police Force structures.

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Letter: Sending crime prevention letters to vehicle owners may be worth considering

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Crime and what we can do to prevent it. It is the job of the Police to fight crime, but we can all help to bring it down. Most crimes are against property, not people and not many crimes are carefully planned. Many are committed by opportunists at the spur of the moment when they see the chance. We leave possessions exposed in our cars and we leave the doors and windows to ou...

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Crime prevention strategies: A sociology of hope Pt. 2

The record murder count with which we ended 2010 represents a complex of mostly quantifiable causes. But quantifying the means to combat violent crime is not easy. To wit, we should be sceptical of glib generalizations about the causes of and the means to address crime.
A booming economy does not necessarily translate into less crime. During one of the most severe economic downturns in its moder...

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Bahamas Youth review CARICOM crime prevention plan

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown,

Guyana) Young people in the Commonwealth of The

Bahamas met on Thursday 9 December, at the Ministry

of Youth, Culture and Sports to give their feedback

on the Caribbean Community Action Plan for Social

Development and Crime Prevention.

The Consultation is organised by the CARICOM

Secretariat with the support of the United Nations

Developm...

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Financial Empowerment as well as Crime Prevention to be Key Focus at Visionary Conference!!

Nassau, Bahamas - Financial empowerment as well as
ways in which businesspersons can better protect and secure their assets and
prevent crime in their work environment will also be a key focus at the
upcoming 2010 Visionary Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards which is less
than two weeks away.

The Conference scheduled for
Monday October 18 at the British Colonial Hilton will be attended by ...

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Turnquest reveals firms behind 7M CCTV system

The downtown area and other criminal hot spots will soon be monitored under closed circuit televisions (CCTV), as the government is now in final negotiations with the companies that will implement the system.
National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest has announced Lowe's Alarm and its American partner, Aries, as the companies that were chosen.
He revealed that the government is presently in negot...

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