Within the past years a large number of illegal weapons have been seized by the police and while there are efforts on the part of the local ranks to trace their origin and how they end up here, a Caribbean-based network which will soon become reality will help in this regard, says Crime Chief Seelall Persaud.
Though tracing is being done, persons in the security field believe that there needs to be greater effort on the part of the police to protect our porous borders, prevent these illegal weapons from entering Guyana and ending up in the hands of criminal elements.
Persaud, in a recent interview, told Stabroek News that one of the projects in the making under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) is the Integrated Ballistics Information Network. He explained that with the network, when an unlicensed gun is found in the participating countries, ballistics information such as
