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Police Commissioner Kurt Walton and Detective Superintendent Peter Lansdown (CNS): Over the past five years, 24 officers were fired from the RCIPS after investigations into misconduct, including 19 during Kurt Walton’s time as commissioner of police. However, Walton said that these numbers were not captured by the Office of the Ombudsman because, contrary to popular belief, the police are still…

A CNS reader writes: The freedom of information data revealing zero terminations despite seventy-four investigations and eleven high-level referrals confirms what many have long known about the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. Independent oversight in the Cayman Islands is toothless if the police command structure refuses to act. We have to ask how anyone can expect a different outcome when…

George Town Police Station (CNS): Between 2021 and 2025, the Office of the Ombudsman received 235 complaints against police officers, and the OMB investigated 74. But not a single officer was fired during that period, even though eleven of them were referred to the police commissioner for action and four to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution. Thirty complaints remain outstanding…

2024 RCIPS Crime Traffic Statistics Report press conference panel (CNS): The RCIPS is losing cops as fast as it is recruiting them, Police Commissioner Kurt Walton said this week as he explained the legacy issues relating to poor pay across the service that are driving some of his best staff away, with some moving into the private sector and doubling their salaries. Asked about the CI$7.7…

(CNS): Police have said all possible lines of enquiry are being pursued in order to ascertain the circumstances that lead to death of a man found in George Town last week. The body of an unidentified 56-year-old man from Bodden Town was found at around 7:30 on the morning of New Year’s Eve, Tuesday 31 December on the side of the road on Middle Road behind Doctor’s Hospital. On arrival EMS saw no…

Crash on Shamrock Road on Christmas Day (CNS): According to the accumulative statistics reported by police since Operation Winter Guardian, the annual holiday safety campaign was launched there have been more than 150 road crashes reported to police. Four people have been killed this month alone and the annual tally for road deaths currently stands at 14 one of the country’s worth tolls for…

RCIPS Traffic unit bumps up visibility (CNS): The RCIPS’ Winter Guardian operation has been hi-jacked by a stream of fatal and serious smashes since it began earlier this month. And while police are also focused on crime prevention the number of crashes has now seen officers diverted to the roads and the main focus of the campaign has shifted to what they said is even more visible enforcement.…

The burning Honda Fit moments after the crash on the ETH (CNS): Police said that they are diverting even more resources on to the roads after the second deadly smash on local roads in twenty-four hours. As fatal and serious crashes reach unprecedent levels the police once again urged drivers to continue to slow down pay attention and not to get behind the wheel after drinking alcohol. In the…