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Acting Commissioner of Police, Robert Jeffers addressing the police officers as he introduced the new National Security Minister. |
Charlestown Nevis (November 11, 2004) Minister of National Security and Legal Justice in the Federal Parliament, the Hon G A Dwyer Astaphan, while paying his official visit to the island of Nevis on Wednesday, said that the visit was very important and that it gave him a chance to get a direct view and sense of what was happening on the island.
The Minister who was accompanied by Deputy Premier, the Hon Malcolm Guishard, added, "We want to create a new energy, a new sense of mission and purpose and elevate to more professionalism, more efficiency and getting more hooked into the communities."
"Because, the community is if you will, who you serve and the community also is the environment from which police officers, fire and rescue officers, soldiers and all the rest of us come for, so it's a sort of symbolic relationship which we want to underscore in the minds and activities of the police service as well."
The Ministers met with the rank and file of the Nevis Division of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force and the Fire Rescue Services, which was followed with an island tour to the various police stations and fire departments.
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Minister of National Security, Hon Dwyer Astaphan addresses members of the Fire Services Rescue in Charlestown. |
"We are quite pleased this morning with the visit of Minister Astaphan on his inaugural visit to Nevis as the minister responsible for National Security," said the Deputy Premier Guishard. "He has a genuine interest in not only the security of the federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, but also a genuine interest in the welfare of the police and fire offices in St.. Kitts and Nevis."
According to Guishard, the new minister has made a commitment to the Nevis Island Administration and to the hierarchy of the police force and the fire services that he would ensure that they have all that is necessary at their disposal to curtail crime/criminal activity in the federation.
With a new minister of National Security now in office, Minister Guishard was very optimistic about the working relationship between the two islands in terms of the police and fire services, as he noted that the administration was looking forward for great things from the minister and that he had known that the minister had worked well in his past portfolios and hoped that he would continue to do same.
