Proactive policing is way ahead – chief

Friday 30th September 2011, 2:29PM BST.

Operation Action, which saw police officers out in the community in numbers soon after Patrick Rice took over as chief officer, is an example of the style of policing he favours. Here Sergeant Jim Woods talks to people drinking in the Captain’s Hotel. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1049967)

GETTING Guernsey Police to be proactive not reactive when dealing with crime remains the key aim of its chief officer one year after taking up the post.

Reflecting on his first annual report, Patrick Rice said many of the new developments were part of a key restructuring process that would see officers taken away from back office roles and sent out on the front line.

‘When I took control of the force the approach was very reactive when dealing with crime,’ he said.

‘These changes will help us to be more proactive with our work to resolve problems.’

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September 30, 2011 at 5:42 pm

I’d like to see a big stamp-down on the ever increasing infestation of the vermin that happens to be the ugly cancer for a decent functioning society. The public need, and deserve, swift and robust measures to target the heroin addicts.

These scum scourge everybody around them.

When is the island going to wise up? When is the authorities going to implement measures to make their actions illegal and operate a zero tolerance campaign against them until it can gain the upper hand.

Left for much longer, with a similar lack of action, the island will be all the worse for it.

It is well known the measures being used to wean these junkies off the gear is making life lucrative for new addicts to step-up due to the prices that can be commanded for the substitutes when the island runs dry of smack.

That is not very often either it would appear.

It should be made public the ever increasing number of addicts. How much they cost in “medication” and how much they are thought to cost in terms of the crime they commit to feed their disgusting habits.

This escalates massively when an amount of “good quality” smack is on the streets making crime inevitable to purchase as much as they can pilfer from you and me along the way.

I can’t believe on such a small island the junky population has been allowed to explode into what it is today.

When will there be any decent effective action I wonder?

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