The following is reposted from Wade Gibbons’ (retired policeman and journalist) Facebook newsfeed on day after a 23 strong Advisory Council on Crime was announced by Prime Minister Mia Mottley. It should be emphasised the following sensible and practical suggestions were made by a single sensible Barbadian – Blogmaster
Prime Minister Mia Mottley 
Attorney General Dale Marshall 
Commissioner of Police Richard Boyce
Some random ideas for authorities: Pay more attention to vessels entering the country at Port Ferdinand and Port St Charles. Security at both is lax, despite verbiage to the contrary. ALL cargo entering the Bridgetown Port should be properly searched. That reportedly does not always occur. Guns and ammunition will enter the island via legitimate cargo, whether car parts, cars, cement, clothes, etc. Our coastal areas require better scrutiny and patrols. Divert money paid to useless consultants to increase our coastguard personnel and equipment.
Pay some scrutiny to legitimate firearms and ammunition dealers and their stock acquisition and distribution where their transactions ought to be recorded. Firearms are reusable; not bullets. With the high volume of shootings in the island, ammunition is being replenished from somewhere. Bullets might be coming into the island through our very vulnerable entry points or legitimate dealers might be making huge profits by selling ammunition at exhorbitant prices to drug dealers. Peruse their bookkeeping. Avarice has sullied many ‘respectable’ persons worldwide. Bajans are not immune to that so cover all possible bases.
Check into the financials of persons working at our ports of entry, whether they be customs officials, clerks, dock hands, etc. They work for legislated salaries. If their wealth (properties, holdings) does not correspond with their salaries, then this merits a very invasive probe into their affairs.
If drug money is making it into the banking system from persons with no visible signs of employment, then the Financial Investigation Unit needs to monitor specifc banking officials. Follow the money.
Drug money is being laundered into restaurants, stores, shops, salons, and other ‘legitimate’ businesses. Does anyone carry out any tax investigations into these people or probe into the original source of their capital? Or is that reserved only for persons with legitimate jobs?
The BPS needs to take the lead in dealing with crime and separate itself from politicians. That a politician’s daughter was arrested importing drugs while in possession of a diplomatic passport should be a wake-up call that no one is above reproach when it comes to the guns and drugs situation in Barbados.
And if any politician gets in the way, arrest his or her ass for obstruction..from the top right down to the addict dressing like an Asian and pretending to be sane.
Target known drug dealers, check into their financials, possessions, businesses, taxes. Wiretapping should be legalised under specific guidelines, focusing on drug men, known felons and persons suspected to be complicit in criminality. Wiretapping should not be used as police were previously instructed to use it – monitoring law-abiding citizens for political reasons.
Police must take back the streets, random searches, roadblocks, unannounced raids (a former head clown used to indicate beforehand which area the police would be present), etc. Implementing committees and councils manned by persons of questionable repute themselves does nothing other than give the impression to lame-brain citizens that the government is responding to the crisis. It would not be farfetched to see a drug dealer end up in an advisory capacity to government. The government needs to stick to social issues, e.g., job creation, providing more training and educational opportunities, etc. Leave policing the country to the people trained to do it. Some in the senior ranks need to shed their fears, take their heads out of the politicians’ butts and police Barbados without reference to any and all politicians.
The blogmaster invites you to join the discussion.