This is a good idea, especially if it warns people about criminals actually using facebook to pick up vulnerable girls etc. It’s too easy for criminals to use sites like facebook for this, which is why I have come to prefer sites like College Alumni to keep in touch with friends and find people I used to know.

I think it's a very good decision, Facebook is a widely popular affiliate network program and would succeed to alert people on an international level faster than TV or radio would be able to do it.

Trying to save face on face book seems cosmetic. What the brass-face criminals are doing to this nation ain't pretty. What we need in this country is an about face by the police and other security forces. They must face the criminals head on in order for this rampant lawlessness to stop. The authorities already have lost face as far as crime is concerned and should stop turning the other cheek, as the bandits get more cheeky. Facebook or no facebook, what we need is to fight fire with fire. Criminals are not known for shame-faced-ness.
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Mr Phailbirth what about the Wallerfield killings and the missing coke in the Princess Town police station?Only in T&T is no end to any investigation.How about the Piarco Enquiry.Pandy and the others would be dead before a completion.It did not take eight months for Bernard Madoff to be put in jail.He stole billions.If the people of T&T wanted to know why did the FBI took over Balo case its plain to see.

Say what you want about Act.Comm.James Phailbirth his policemen are doing an excellent job.With all those unsolved murders only FIVE criminals are wanted.Catch them in a hurry and make the place safe.By the way is only one wanted for murder.Ladies and gentlemen this is Phailbirth at his best.Good luck people.

HOW DOES THIS PREVENT CRIME.
Ms. Cox, you talking about the past pictures you have, because i doubt people will be taking pictures of the people robbing, killing, raping or hurting them in any way -now the criminal will make sure you dead before they leave the scene of the crime. this is misusing technology or ms cox trying to believe she has a great idea. the criminals must be laughing at how stupid you all are. i hope the gang members take pics of each other and submit it to facebook.

come up with REAL IDEAS TO DETER CRIME not to put them on the runway, cause some of them are proud but the police still haven't arrested them.

Good idea about facebook criminal postings. And call it Trinidad & Tobago Most Wanted.

What a pity that out of the entire launching event that took place at the Marriot Hotel, Ms. Mackhan choose to highlight a brief comment about Facebook and make it the headline of her inaccurate and uninformative article. Once again, citizens desiring to get a more indepth writeup of what transpired at the launching of the Carribean Most Wanted Website will have to read the Express.

I post their write-up here as a contrast to Ms. Mackhan's piece.

"Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean’s ’Most Wanted’ website on Tuesday night.

The launch took place at the Marriott Hotel, Port of Spain, and was attended by Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert, Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Donna Cox, and founder of Crime Stoppers UK, Lord Michael Ashcroft.

The website, which is the first of its kind in the region, allows the police throughout the Caribbean to post photographs of individuals wanted in connection with various crimes in Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda and Latin America.

Ashcroft said he believed the website would tremendously assist with crime fighting in the Caribbean given its success in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world.

’From the 3,400 fugitives posted on that site (UK), over 700 have so far been arrested and charged (since 2005), and that is over 20 per cent of all the appeals.... Recently an appeal about a UK criminal who we thought was in Spain resulted in a telephone call from France, resulting in him being arrested in Greece. That is the power of the Internet, and we get information from all over the world.

And the reason why it’s so successful is because it has captured the public’s imagination and given them a part in the fight against crime because it’s easy and they don’t have to go to the police which is vital if they are close to the criminal and may be at risk. And a very important characteristic of the concept for the region is that it crosses boundaries. It’s so easy for a fugitive from justice to nip across to another country where the police is not looking for him. Well with ’Most Wanted’ there is no hiding place,’ Ashcroft said.

In her address, Cox said since the inauguration of the local arm of Crime Stoppers ten years ago, the Ministry of National Security viewed its relationship with the programme as a necessary and meaningful partnership. She said she saw the new initiative as one which would ’add great value to Trinidad and Tobago’s efforts to manage criminal conduct in our society and the Caribbean as a whole’ but added that in order for the Police Service to win the war on crime, changes had to be made to the service itself.

Philbert, who spoke with reporters after the launch, said the Police Service was also working on launching its own website.

To view the Crime Stoppers website log on to www.caribbeanmostwanted.com.

And if you have information on any crime call 800-TIPS, 555, or any police station." Trinidad Express.

Don S. NY

Another suggestion by the Master of Facebook, Minister Gary Hunt?