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by 'Concerned'
The most recent Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) annual report, reflecting crimes involving bladed weapons, begs for answers surrounding the true magnitude of the problem, the reason for the uptick in knife use during 2020 as well as further details about who is involved in the incidents.
Reviewing data reported in the RCIPS annual crime and traffic statistical report is not a simple process as multiple categories of crimes and descriptions of knives are reported.
For one, according to the report, 7 per cent of total recorded crimes in the year 2020 involved a bladed weapon. Bladed weapons are defined in the RCIPS Report as knives, machetes, screwdrivers and other sharp instruments.
But this statistic can be misleading.
Recorded crimes, as specified above, are only those that are confirmed as crimes on the RCIPS Records Management System following criteria set by the RCIPS. This means that nothing is recorded as a crime unless there is sufficient evidence to confirm that a crime occurred. Until that happens and while investigations are ongoing, matters are referred to as 'incidents'.
Saying that 7 per cent of total recorded crimes in the year 2020 involved a bladed weapon could therefore be understated. Emergency services receive 30,000 calls for service or incidents every year and it is unclear how many of the 30,000 incidents involve knives....
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