This crime scourge has been an af­flic­tion on this coun­try for too many years.In my view, the so­lu­tion to this prob­lem is be­yond the po­lice ser­vice and the Gov­ern­ment alone.This prob­lem be­longs to each and every­one of us, and it will take us all to solve it.We the cit­i­zen­ry should face this is­sue frontal­ly and play our part as sol­diers against crime in or­der to re­claim our coun­try from the grips of crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

Every crime com­mit­ted should be viewed as a crime against you be­cause if you have not been sub­ject to a crime, I can as­sure you, you are stand­ing in line.A good place to start is to be our broth­er's keep­er and do away with the at­ti­tude "Thank God it's not me." We must be very ob­ser­vant, take note of our sur­round­ings, feed­ing the po­lice with the in­for­ma­tion. For­get about "I don't trust the po­lice." You can­not af­ford the lux­u­ry of that mis­trust.

You must help and take some risk with­out putting your own life at risk.The Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Sen­a­tor, the Hon­or­able Gary Grif­fith, said "crime is a prod­uct of op­por­tu­ni­ty." Let's learn how not to pro­vide that op­por­tu­ni­ty.I'm sure, fel­low cit­i­zens, you may have many more sug­ges­tions as to how we can over­come this af­flic­tion.

Ghas­san Youseph