Deputy Commissioner of Police, Curt Simon says crime may not be decreasing as rapidly as people expect during a State of Emergency but, the incidents are less than that of the same period last year.
He was speaking with the Tv6 Morning Edition on Tuesday.
00:00In relation to the crimes that you saw over the weekend, just prior to that, you were seeing, you know, just a limited amount happening.
00:09And then you got this sort of uptick, as we use that term, of about four crimes happening, and they happen one behind the other.
00:17And, of course, the gruesomeness of it, with the headless that you are speaking about, would interfere with our perceptions, with our mentality, with how we see things.
00:28But when we look at it numerically, we see that still the figures are below what they were last year.
00:39He says the police are working and have been arresting more persons. In fact, he says, just this past week, 11 firearms were seized in one operation.
00:51Whilst everyone, most of us would expect or would have expected or perhaps wanted the SOE to impact crime dramatically, to impact crime exponentially,
01:03there is hardly ever a situation where a decrease in crime occurs exponentially, whereas increases tend to occur exponentially.
01:13DCP Simon says the state of emergency will end soon, and the TDPS is already strategizing its next move in terms of dealing with crime, gangs and recovering illegal guns and ammunition.
01:26They have to hide it because they're not walking with it strapped on their backs anymore.
01:30But we are doing our intelligence, and we are using that intelligence to go after certain...
01:36We have certain plans in stream right now to go after certain areas where we suspect these are high-powered rifles are, and we are only about to execute.
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