And with four murders between Christmas Day and Sunday night - it pushed this year's murder count above last year's number. When we asked the Compol about this he said that even 2 more is still one too many for the year.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Our current murder count is at 89 compared to the total figure for last year which is 87. So by our statistics the murder count is up by 2 this year compared to last year."
"To have 89 murders this year it's still 89 murders too much which in we have to look at things for what they are and every life loss simply means that there are people out there who are grieving for having lost their loved ones and so as a department we do our best to preserve life but we do understand the vicissitudes of life things are going to happen that is going to be beyond your control but when those do occur then it is our duty as the police to do our utmost best to bring closure to families and closure in the form of finding their perpetrator of these crimes and try to bring them to justice and that's what we have been pushing all year to do."
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