Earlier in the newscast, we showed you Police Commissioner Allen Whylie's first comments since his return to duty from two months leave.
He asked for the opportunity to make a plea to the general public to help them solve crimes. Often the police investigators struggle to find leads on major incidents such as murders, and they are convinced that someone in the public saw or heard something which can help them to look in the right direction.
The trouble is that these eyewitnesses refuse to come forward, and that causes investigation trails to go cold. The lack of public cooperation also prevents police from bringing charges against suspects because they have no evidence, even though they may believe that they have the right suspect.
So, the Commissioner is asking eyewitnesses to come forward and assist them when necessary. Here's his public plea:
Allen Whylie - Commissioner of Police
"I do want to use this medium to appeal to citizens to, as I've said, cooperate with day to day police officers. It does not necessarily mean that they can physically be there. They can call in information via the 911 crime stoppers, etc. We must understand that while we don't have police officers on every street corner when things are occurring, there are always citizens who are present and they should know an officer that they feel comfortable speaking with or passing that information along to kind of assist the department in going in the right direction. I can say that we've had some leads in some of these cases. Some of them have been solved. There are other cases where we are certain that we had or have the main suspects but again it comes down to, in some cases, the lack of getting statements from IC witnesses."
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