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Posted: Sunday 30 April, 2017 at 5:09 PM

Top Cop calls on public to assist in solving murders on Nevis

By: Stanford Conway, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – IN what some termed “a crisis situation” in the recent shooting-death of four young people in Cotton Ground, Nevis, Commissioner of Police Ian Queeley is calling on members of the public to work together with the police in bringing the perpetrators to justice.

     

    The victims – Randell Chapman (23), Morella Webbe (28), Shariff Williams (25) and Elvis Lawrence (21) – were killed between March 26 and April 25 and to date no one has been charged with these killings.

    In an interview with WINN FM, Commissioner Queeley noted that too many of these shootings have occurred in broad daylight in the presence of witnesses but no one is providing the police with information.

    “I would just like to highlight that in the wake of this incident it brings to the fore the importance of the public and the police working together in a holistic way in the fight against crime. We have been seeing too many of these incidents happening in broad daylight and witnesses are not coming to the fore.

    “I just want to implore and remind all our citizens that we have a social responsibility to do our part to ensure that perpetrators of these heinous crimes are brought to justice and to ensure that we have an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity within our communities.”

    He stressed that these senseless acts of violence are eroding the foundation of the communities and they must be stopped. 

    “As I have said before, we should be vexed about it; the society on a whole should be vex when these things happen. I want to once again urge the general public to come forward with any information that they may have. What they know may be the piece of the puzzle that can bring an end to these senseless killings we are experiencing in our Federation.”

    The media house asked Queeley if the last three killings were that of a retaliatory nature, knowing that the first one occurred in Cotton Ground and had involved a resident of Rawlins Village.

    In response, the Top Cop said: “It would not be prudent to comment in such a manner except to say the police are putting together the pieces of the puzzle that we collect, and we are prudently conducting investigations into all of these matters. So it would not be a proper thing to say it’s a retaliatory without having all of the evidence available to us at this point in time.”

    Referring to statements made in some quarters that everyone is aware of a long standing war between young men of Rawlins Village and Cotton Ground, and that police should be more proactive and have increased presence in those villages, WINN FM asked Queeley if it were a situation where police are only seen in those areas after a crime was committed.

    “No, no, no, the Commissioner exclaimed. “That is the furthest thing from the truth. I don’t wish to use the language that you just couched about a war. The police are aware that there are incidents occurring in both areas and the police have been putting gin their presence and we will continue to put in our presence.
     
    “I want to say here that we are taking our mandate seriously, contrary to what some persons believe. But we are not seeing or getting that support from other persons who should actually be putting their part of the puzzle in.

    “We have been putting in our additional patrols and so on in the area and the whole issue, as I said, has to be holistic. The fight against crime requires the preventative approach and the investigative approach. We are trying both.”

    He was also if there is any truth in the suggestion that the Police High Command is paying more attention to St. Kitts than Nevis with regards to crime fighting efforts; a question to which he passionately denied.

    “That’s not a fair comment. Persons have their perceptions but that’s not a fair comment. We look at the whole issues strategically and we deploy the resources according to the needs.”

    There have been five homicides on Nevis for this year (all of which were committed in Cotton Ground); one more when compared to the same period in 2015 and 2016.












     
     
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