And you want whom to believe the words that came out off your mouth? Ok, when crime is up, you must take the blame just as you take the praise for crime being down. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

Now you know he ain't gonna do that. As for eating cake...

lol!

Finally, someone who says the cake eating phrase correctly!

The audacity of the Commissioner to want people to give him credit for doing his job. Seriously? Every government pay day when you get a salary you get credit.

Agree he needs to start taking blame for when the stats go up.

I'm tried of these civil servants who have a silver spoon in their mouths.

Sorry Commissioner no one believes you. The public is not stupid.

A 16 percent overall drop in crime, and a minimum 33 percent (9pm to 5am) time we were under curfew. Yeah, right, it's all down to the police.

Mr. Commissioner can you please articulate or state exactly **WHAT** the RBPF did to cause the 16% drop in overall crime.

Nothing, we the citizens have given up our business, jobs and freedom for them to be able to BRAG about crime reduction. OPEN THE SCHOOLS, SMALL BUSINESS, CHURCHES AND GIVE UP THE DAMN EMERGANCY POWERS! ( He never will )

I would like to see mandatory salary deductions for those in public office who say unbelievably stupid, easily refutable things!

IF ONLY....DREAM ON

They locked up law abiding citizens everyday so they can reduce crime? Time for emergency powers to go!!! Where is the Emergency? None...just control and comply. IT IS ALL A NEW WORLD ORDER PLAN.

*In spite of the reduced figures, there was a spate of killings at the end of 2020, which the police chief said could be attributed to several factors.

“These could be related to the seasonal impacts, loosening of restrictions, on lockdown and changes in police activities as more emphasis was placed on social distancing,” he said.

Responding to critics who point to COVID restrictions that kept people off the streets for long periods, the Commissioner said: “I could answer that with one word… nonsense. That’s why I provided the figures for the last ten years and if you look at those figures for the last ten years from what you’ve seen, we had a decline in crime.*

Clearly the Commissioner is speaking out of two sides of his mouth and does not even comprehend it.

HE attributes the spate of crimes at end of 2020 to loosening of lockdown restrictions. But then he says it is nonsense that the covid lockdowns had anything to do with reduction of crime.

So how can loosening the lockdown cause crime to increase, but having the lockdowns have no impact on decreasing crime?

The Commissioner sadly is very delusional if he believes the decrease is crime has nothing to do with the lockdowns.

what rubbish. Either he stupid or he thinks we stupid.

There was a time when one had to be disciplined in their life style and physically fit to be police commissioner. Back then it was important to lead the police force by example. Having a good head on one's shoulders was also an important prerequisite for the position in the days of yore. So just how did this brainless tub of lard, Paul Rolle, come to be police commissioner?

Is that a rhetorical question?

... you just offended lard!

Most of Govt. is delusional and are destroying our beautiful country for their political gain, power and money. They do nothing for love of country and people. Every politician in this country have become rich very quickly, once elected. ALL ABOUT MONEY, MONEY, MONEY...just ask
Gates.

It's pretty delusional to think that lockdowns had nothing to do with crime reduction. With the high unemployment rate, that's probably the only thing that spared many lives. SMH

If enough of them say it enough...many will believe. BRAINWASHING CITIZENS

delusional

Can anyone expect Mr: Rolle to say anything different?

Not really but how about just keeping his pie hole shut instead?!

Does he feel that we are dumb? Of course the curfews/lockdowns are the main cause of the reduced crime rate. I for one support keeping the curfew. If it works, why deviate from it?

You moron. It is called infringing on basic human rights. That is why I don't support extending of the curfews. The curfews under the emergency powers were meant to reduce or stop the spread of the COV19 virus.I

Lol stay mad buddy. If it works, might as well use it. The country has been crime ridden since Pindling decided to sell us over to the Colombians for the drug money, and now we finally have something that actually works in restoring order, yet this isn't good enough lol. Hope you get to live around it one day.

Seriously? This would actually be comical if it wasn’t so sad. Did he mention most of Abaco was wiped out? There is probably a 15% drop right there. The police don’t even respond to thievery and looting in Treasure Cay. There wasn’t even a phone number for police for 10 months. So, how could you have reported a crime? This guy is going to need surgery on his arm for reaching around to pat himself so hard on the back. A disgrace to the police force. And no one is going to believe him again. Should probably go into car sales.

Obviously this is one of the least educated and least sensitive commissioners the country has seen in a very long time. Maybe his education does not extend beyond high school and police training. Firstly Mr Jack says curfews and lockdowns are not responsible fir reduction in crime. Yet some 4.000 persons were cited for curfew violations. That’s like saying curfews and lockdowns are not effective in preventing the spread of coy virus. That is like saying sending a person to prison is not effective in reducing crime. But the commissioner will also make statements like, ‘There were a number of break-ins in the South Western part of the island. My officers were able to crack a gang and arrest a number of persons. And that resulted in those crimes no longer occurring.” And his comments about suicide being carried out by weak men is totally insensitive and ignorant. Do you know that every single human on earth has the potential to vomit suicide? Suicide is not always the instance where someone is heartbroken or feels they are a failure, so they write a note apologizing and take their lives. Suicide is also a disorder or a disease where someone can be under const attack or bombardment to take their life. They have dreams about it and even during their happiest moments they get thoughts of ending their life. And if they eventually do it, it’s not because they couldn’t cope with life, but could no longer fight the torment of being told to end their life. The commissioner should talk to the experts and get informed before going public and making looo,insensitive and erroneous statements. And as fir murders, if the lockdowns and curfews were not responsible for part of the reduction, at least, how is it that murders increased as lockdowns and curfews were reduced? What Roll should really be telling the Bahamian people,rather than trying to blow his own horn, is rather than continuing to spend millions and millions on technology that may be effective,but the police force may not be able to maintain, the police force will look at the impact curfews and lockdowns had on crime. And they will see how best these mechanisms can be adapted and used by the police in combatting crime, murders especially,in hot spots