Guyana is part of an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) financed regional system which compiles crime and violence information from 18 other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.
A release from the IDB, on the occasion of Brazil joining the joint initiative that generates comparable crime data, revealed that the regional system of crime and violence indicators was a tool that enables governments in LAC to share and analyse standardised statistical data to better design, implement, and evaluate security policies and programmes.
The release said that crime statistics are not always comparable as each country
