Neighbourhood Policing for East End/Long Look
Stoutt, who has a well-grounded root in the Long Look/East End community, was part of the team led by Acting Commissioner of Police David Morris that met residents of the East End/Look Look area recently to express appreciation for their cooperation, which resulted in the sentencing of Allen Baptiste and Yan Edwards to life imprisonment for the murder of Keri Harrigan.
Stoutt, in addressing residents, took the opportunity to speak on the importance of Neighbourhood Policing and its likely effects on the stabilisation of crime. “It’s important that the police and the people work together. We cannot do it alone we have to work together,” Stoutt stressed.
To aid the process of establishing the Neighbourhood Policing Group, Stoutt said that there will be some dedicated officers in each area who will be frequenting their designated areas by interacting and patrolling. “When you have any problem you are going to speak to the officers, I think we’re going to put one or two here but right now we are really limited but we are still going to do that.”
Mr Stoutt noted that the RVIPF is in the process of identifying the specific Police Officers to be assigned to the programme, “Because we want the best to interact with the public.” The selected officer will go through intense training before Neighbourhood Policing is put in the forefront.
“What we are asking is for the public to cooperate with the police. When the police come around to you and you have a problem speak with them and make sure that we are working together on the same page.”
Speaking generally about the Neighbourhood Policing programme, Mr Stoutt said “We want to revive some of those that have gone dormant and we are going to try our best to see if we can get that as soon as possible. So in every district we’ll help to reduce crime.” Crime prevention, he said, will also be part of the strategies that would require the support of neighbourhood policing groups to help combat crime throughout the territory. “That’s where someone will be looking out. You going away on vacation, tell your neighbour don’t think that your neighbor wants to know your business, you don’t want to go away and when you come back you meet your house broken into.”
The Long Look Community Consultative Group was given accolades for the work it has been doing and are also being charged to take on the mantle of ensuring community policing becomes key among residents.
Stoutt said that residents of Long Look can look forward to seeing a lot more of him as he will be making his presence felt as the RVIPF seeks to become a friend of society in its quest to serve and protect.
9 Responses to “Neighbourhood Policing for East End/Long Look”
What can st***t be seen in long look doing his PH@t, could barely move self. People like him in uniform for years never seen running after a criminal, just getting Ph@t off his years of service doing nothing, you mean seeing you driving through long look once in a blue moon, all we can see you doing is sitting at the gap by parham town gap in the evenings.