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Caribbean Safety Agency Enhances Local Law Enforcement's Response to Sexual Assault, Child Protection, and Counter-Terrorism | The eNATION
Caribbean Safety Agency focuses on enhancing local law enforcement, emphasizing responses to sexual assault, child protection, and counter-terrorism. Training initiatives aim to improve handling of domestic violence cases.
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The Caribbean Safety Agency is continuing its push to help strengthen local law enforcement, targeting improvements in responses to sexual assault, child protective laws and counter-terrorism.
It is a continuation of the intensive training which the agency has provided to the Regional Security System since October 2024, according to co-director of the agency, Anthony Leacock.
A retired member of the London Metropolitan Police (MET Police), Barbadian-born Leacock stressed on the need to improve upon law enforcement’s approach to domestic violence in its many forms.
“We’re looking to deal with domestic violence which is now a public interest crime. And when I say public interest, I mean it affects the social morality of the country, it affects the health service. One domestic violence murder a year is one too many, especially when the individual, complainant, or the victim might have had previous contact with police,” he said.
