The immediate setting up of a drugs and serious crime task force was announced by Acting Police Commissioner Rudi Dixon on Friday.
‘We will not allow these few criminals to ruin our quality of life or the reputation of the Cayman Islands,’ he said.
Mr. Dixon told a press briefing that the recent aggravated burglary in George Town which, he said, appeared to have been a failed attempt on the life of a senior government official, served to highlight the reality of the threat to the social and economic stability of the country.
Mr. Dixon also revealed that two arrests on suspicion had been made in connection with the incident.
He said one person had been arrested on Saturday and another on Thursday. One person remained in custody, he added.
Mr. Dixon said the investigation was continuing and a line of enquiry was being followed but no one had been charged.
The new task force will investigate and disrupt criminal elements involved in gang activities, drug trafficking, firearms crimes and other serious offences, he told the briefing.
The squad will be led by a chief inspector and be made up of a number of specialist officers and there will be ‘additional assistance to us from outside of the country.’
The unit will be a ‘force to reckon with,’ said Mr. Dixon.
The squad’s business will be to investigate, target and disrupt the activities of the few criminals who cause fear and intimidation through their criminal activities, he said.
‘We are building on the zero tolerance policy. We are stepping it up another level. We are targeting these few criminals in our community that are wanting to cause havoc,’ he told the briefing.
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