Crime not out of control

Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum yesterday reported that police have managed to chip away at the increase in crime, which he maintained is not out of control according to current statistics.

Speaking yesterday at the launch of police force’s Christmas plan at the Police Officers’ Training Centre, at Camp Road, Blanhum said that despite the picture painted in the media of a vast increase in crime and a force that is incompetent and cannot control it, there has only been a minute increase over the past two years.

Blanhum told an audience that included officers and representatives from the private sector that when