New Police Commissioner Stuart Kernohan yesterday clearly set out his aim of ‘putting the communities and police back in control of the Cayman Islands.’
‘It’s my intention to make the Cayman Islands the most hostile environment for crime and criminals in the Caribbean area,’ he told a press briefing.
Mr. Kernohan – in his first week in post after arriving from the UK – said his work would be very difficult if he did not get the support of the people of Cayman.
Information and intelligence was the lifeblood of police work, said Mr. Kernohan, who added that he would be making structured and quick progress as he could.
‘But the last thing I want to do is run at this like a bull in a proverbial china shop,’ he added.
He said his background was 26 years of policing in England and Scotland and dealing with serious and organised crime.
He believed that the RCIP had to be relentlessly cracking down hard on crime and criminals.
But the fight against crime was only sustainable if on the back of that was put a neighbourhood policing style, he said.
He wanted to increase public confidence and satisfaction and make more people believe and have confidence that the police could deliver what they say they could.
He wanted to send out the message, ‘that we care, we listen and we act.’
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