The new 14 member Crimes Control Council has been appointed and they held their first meeting today. It has membership from the NGO community, the Opposition, the business community and the Ministry of National Security – in the person of Chairman Michael Young who is the Minister’s representative. They are tasked to monitor crime and come up with programmes to address crime and its root causes. At the first meeting, Chairman Young told us they came up with a motto.
Michael Young, Chairman
“We have approved a motto at our first meeting today which is that crime is a community problem that requires a community solution. It stems exactly what you have mentioned which is that there are so many causes, some of them interwoven which really produce crime. The makeup of the Crime Council is multi-sectoral; governmental bodies, representatives from the business community, non-governmental organizations, the Opposition. And so it is elements from various part of the community which convene together who are represented on this council. And the whole I think thrust of the approach of this council as we have already adopted is that we need to embrace the whole community from in a sense the top right down in this fight against crime.”
The council is also developing some rapid response programmes to deal with the current crime situation.
