00:00 Police Commissioner Eula Harewood Christopher told the Chairman of the Joint Select Committee on National Security in Keith, Scotland
00:06 That the police service has had successes in disrupting criminal gang activity. Mr
00:11 Scotland wanted the top cop to tell the nation specific actions being taken by the police to deal with what he called the brazenness of
00:18 Criminals in an apparent reference to violent crime in this country
00:22 An organization what we are doing we are focusing on providing that visibility
00:29 and
00:30 So the first thing is visibility. Yes, right
00:34 Go on
00:38 We are focusing on retrieving illegal firearms
00:42 That that that is also laudable because less firearms less crime being committed with firearms, right?
00:50 Additionally
00:56 We are targeting all
00:59 all prolific all
01:01 Prolific offenders, I would say prolific offenders. So or some persons would say priority offenders
01:09 The chairman of the Committee on National Security asked the police commissioner if the police have considered a policy for a gun amnesty
01:18 The top cop said is that does not fall within her authority
01:22 Senior superintendent of police could Simon said gun amnesties do not necessarily reduce crime
01:29 Often the amnesty is not it is not the
01:32 At all does not fall on the authority of the
01:37 However, I will hand over to
01:42 And officer Simon we are crisp with our answers, let me hear you amnesty for firearms. Thank you chair
01:50 The question of amnesty as you know, it's it's one that permeates the criminal justice arena
01:55 Oh and we have noticed because we do we do our research with the NTTPS
02:02 We have noticed that the amnesties do not necessarily tend to
02:05 To impact crime in terms of reduction as we would wanted to do
02:09 in fact
02:10 It seems to provide an escape route for for persons when you do check these firearms
02:16 You may see them linked to a number of outstanding investigations that the amnesty knowing the amnesty but no cause to become negated
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