By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
NATIONAL Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage yesterday commissioned 30 new patrol cars for the Royal Bahamas Police force at a cost of just over $750,000.
Dr Nottage says the vehicles, which will be split between New Providence and Grand Bahama, will hopefully help decrease crime and the fear of crime.
“These cars will allow us to continue to implement the policy of saturated patrols that we have implemented throughout New Providence, particularly in hot spots. As you know, we are trying to ensure that every neighbourhood, in particular those where there is the greatest incidence of unrest, to have them saturated with police officers, with police cars.
“We have to provide the men and women of the Royal Bahamas Police Force with the capacity to properly monitor these areas,” he said.
“These cars 30 cars which are equipped with the most modern, most up-to-date police tools, they have crash bars, they have locatere, where we can locate the cars wherever they are now.
“So you can’t go home and park the car and say you are on patrol because we can locate them.
“We have a modern radio system, improved lighting and my favourite is the siren. They also have a rack for officers to hold their shotguns in as opposed to on the floor where they used to.
“They have barriers between the front cab, which is where the policemen are, and where many persons arrested might be. They have the protective shield in the windows.
“All of this is designed to improve the safety of the officers and persons who are in custody and of course to protect the public.”
Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade said the Bahamas is the first country in the Caribbean to receive these state-of-the-art vehicles.
He said: “Based on our credibility globally, we are privileged to be one of the first jurisdictions and the first jurisdiction in the Caribbean to have these cars. They aren’t available to the market as yet. These are 2013.
“It speaks volumes about the credibility of the Bahamas in international affairs and certainly in the law enforcement arena.”
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