Former Commissioner of Police CG Walwyn is claiming that the new six-point plan to reduce crime in the Federation that the High Command recently presented to Cabinet is a rip off of a five-year plan he presented to the government months before.
“Based on what I’ve read they have taken stuff from my plan and they call it the six points or whatever points they call it,” he said Friday (July 24) during a radio program.
“…I saw previously where the Prime Minister was standing up before the crowd and he was espousing new things that they were planning to do in the future to reduce crime, and these were all rehashing what we had done or what was already in that system.”
Walwyn, who resigned the post at the end of March, said he had not physically seen the Force’s new crime fighting plan but had read about it online. The five-year plan he said he presented, was never accepted by the government, he contends.
“I wrote a five year strategic plan that I presented to the Prime Minister and the Attorney General and my High Command, and nobody responded to it…I was told the government didn’t want it out in the public domain and they were not going to use it,” Walwyn said, adding that he heard from a government supporter “it was rejected because I didn’t seek the advice of my men”.
Walwyn said he had tried to implement certain strategic crime fighting initiatives since November 2014 but cooperation was not forthcoming from the ranks. In January he said, they realized crime “was going to get out of whack”.
Some of the ideas that he put forth in his crime plan are now being echoed by the police consultant from the UK whom the government is reportedly paying over $30,000 per month, he stated.
The former Top Cop said however, that he had no problem with the High Command using his ideas.
“Once they’re doing something as opposed to nothing, I’m totally in support.
“The bottom line for me is the fact that they are actually doing something, is something I will support. I will much rather them do something, call it whatever they want to call it, as long as they are out there trying to reduce crime,” Walwyn stressed.
According to Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris, the new six-point crime reduction plan was the work of Acting Commissioner Stafford Liburd with the input of his High Command.