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Crime Scene Investigators strengthen knowledge
7/31/2010
Exercises like the just-concluded 2010 Eastern Caribbean Crime Scene Investigations Subject Matter Exchange seminar would aid in strengthening the security of the entire region.
Speaking during the closing ceremony yesterday morning, Regional Security Co-ordinator, Grantley Watson, said that the seminar would also help expand the role of the Regional Security Systems (RSS), provide advice to other intelligence gatherers, and standardise the systems of member states.
“We will seek to have all forces in the RSS agency follow certain standards across the region. This will help when we are mobilising member states as everyone will be on the same page and this will better help us to improve law enforcement in the region,” he stated.
Thirty-one participants from all RSS member states – Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – attended the one-week workshop, successfully taking part in several hands-on crime scene exercises and activities led by NCIS Subject Matter experts from Washington, DC.
These included physical scene control, collecting and storing evidence correctly, photography and sketching of crime scenes.
“I am confident that we are now better prepared to present reliable evidence,” he told the officers.
He said that it was well established that forensics played a critical role in the criminal justice system, not only from the point of law enforcement but within the judicial system.
Admitting that criminal activities were becoming increasingly more complex, he said that the region’s security was under threat from these various forms and member states therefore required an increased capacity to deal with these matters.
The seminar was funded by the United States government and responded to priorities identified during US Attorney General Eric Holder’s visit to Barbados. It is part of America’s continuing engagement with its Caribbean partners, which will be further strengthened through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative that President Barack Obama announced at the 2009 Summit of the Americas. (JMB)
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