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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…

(CNS): The driver of a Subaru sedan was killed early on Boxing day morning following a crash on Shamrock Road near to the junction of Midway Close in the Lower Valley area of Bodden Town. The collision happened around 2:20 this morning on 26 December when police and other emergency services responded to the report of a serious single-vehicle collision. The Subaru had been travelling eastbound…

One of many inexplicable crashes on Grand Cayman this year. (CNS): The situation on Cayman’s roads, got worse at the weekend and closed out the first full week of Operation Winter Guardian, the RCIPS’ season anti-crime and road safety campaign, with a total 88 collisions recorded by police in seven days, including 27 just this weekend. Police also arrested 13 drunk drivers over the first seven…

(CNS): During the first five days of Operation Winter Guardian, which began Monday, the police attended 61 crashes and have arrested nine drunk drivers. The annual holiday safety campaign has got off to a worrying start as the increasingly poor standard of driving across Cayman appears to get worse by the month. Drivers continuing drinking before getting behind the wheel, using their phones and…