Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has assured that the government will be moving to improve the operations of the 911 system.
“The 911 system must work, and it must work in a fashion that it holds people accountable,” he told reporters during his press conference on Thursday.
Explaining plans for the improvement of law enforcement countrywide, the Vice President said calls made to police stations will be recorded, not only at that location, but also to a central database or national system.
“We intend to, at the police stations, if you make a call at the police stations then the call gets recorded and then kicked to another system where it gets recorded so later, a policeman can’t say if they’re in Whim or in Buxton saying I didn’t get this call …and the content of the call is recorded,” he noted.
His comments follow several complaints from citizens that their calls to 911 go unanswered while police officers oftentimes fail to show up or take too long to arrive at crime scenes.
In its next term in office, the Vice President said his government will be working to improve several systems and hire young people to make the required changes.
“Some of the systems can’t run with the same mindset that some people who are currently manning them have, because they’re not attuned to using technology to solve problems,” Jagdeo explained.
The current employees, he said, will also be retrained with scholarships in cybersecurity and camera maintenance, among other initiatives.
Meanwhile, Jagdeo said he welcomes more suggestions to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on initiatives they can embark upon to improve lives.
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