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Life After COVID Curfew
posted (July 3, 2020)
The UDP Convention to determine who will lead the ruling party is next weekend, but, for many aged 30 and under, this weekend is bruk-out weekend. It's the first weekend without any kind of curfew since March - and for police, it poses all kinds of difficulties. The Commissioner discussed that yesterday.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"We do have our crime-fighting strategies in place and we will apply our strategies as best as we can. I had advised my officers yesterday on what we will be doing with a view to ensure that we police those core police functions as well as to ensure that we keep a tab on those persons who we know have that propensity of committing particularly violent types of crimes. We also continue to work with our partners CYDP and we have brother Nuri and we have other organizations out there that help us to address the issues with the young people, the different groups and so we are optimistic that the calm is going to continue. I have long said that the curfew was not the reason that crime was down but rather the collaborative effort of the different persons or the different partners who are working together to keep particularly the gang activities under control and we are going to continue that and even take it to another level to ensure that we keep the different gang groups in line. Curfew at 12 midnight, there was no help from that because you know by 12-midnight people, for the most part, are already sleeping except for the party-goers."

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