Ch­agua­nas East MP Van­dana Mo­hit has ac­cused the po­lice of fail­ing to im­ple­ment mea­sures to re­duce crime in the ju­ris­dic­tion.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, she said: “De­spite re­peat­ed calls for po­lice ac­tion and mea­sures to mit­i­gate against the pro­lif­er­a­tion of crimes and crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties in the Ch­agua­nas East re­gion, none is be­ing un­der­tak­en or ini­ti­at­ed de­spite a ram­pant up­surge in same.

“The au­thor­i­ties con­tin­ue to adopt a lais­sez-faire and non­cha­lant re­sponse to this prob­lem plagu­ing the res­i­dents.”

Mo­hit cit­ed sev­er­al in­ci­dents be­tween Feb­ru­ary 27 and yes­ter­day, in­clud­ing rob­beries and a shoot­ing at En­ter­prise.

She said a doc­tor and his teenage son were robbed at gun­point dur­ing a home in­va­sion on Tues­day night at Point Pleas­ant and in an armed rob­bery at Soogrim Trace, En­deav­our, yes­ter­day, a farmer was robbed of his van.

“The ques­tion begs, who, where and when will the next crim­i­nal in­ci­dent oc­cur in Ch­agua­nas East?” Mo­hit asked

“These das­tard­ly acts per­pe­trat­ed on in­no­cent law-abid­ing cit­i­zens must be im­me­di­ate­ly ad­dressed, any fur­ther calls to the som­nam­bu­lat­ing Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to re­sign or the Prime Min­is­ter to fire him for his non-per­for­mance will not hap­pen.

“They sim­ply are numb to the plight of the peo­ple and con­tin­ue to dis­play a ret­i­cent ap­proach to this scourge.”

The MP re­newed a call for the im­me­di­ate in­ter­ven­tion of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher to help the peo­ple of Ch­agua­nas East and al­so asked Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds to meet and ex­plain what could be done to pro­tect the burgess­es of Ch­agua­nas East from crim­i­nal el­e­ments.