Pictorial Analysis of Drug Situation Grenada 2001 - Government of ...

A Pictorial Analysis of the Extent , Patterns and Trends of the Drug Situation in Grenada 2001 to 2010
MAIN OFFENCE COMMITTED BY MALE STUDENTS ARRESTED AND CHARGED, 2001 TO 2010
45
9%
27
6% House Breaking & Stealing,
236
Stealing
50%
Acts of Violence & Weapons
165
35%
Drug-related Offences
Sexual Offences
Main reasons why male students were arrested and charged during the period under review were:
i. Housebreaking and Stealing; Stealing (main items stolen were money and electronic items *mobile phones,
computers, digital cameras)
ii.
iii.
iv.
Acts of violence and possession of weapons (weapons include knives, cutlasses, other objects and items
used as weapons-screwdrivers, scissors, broken bottles)
Drug-related offences (possession of drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia)
Sexual Offences
Some of the acts of violence which involved one student wounding another student, begun as matters of dispute
between both students at school and continued after regular school hours.
The above listed offences accounted for ninety-three (93) percent of all offences for which male students were eased
and charged by the Royal Grenada Police Force.
One (1) male students was arrested and charged for murder in 2008, and one (1) for manslaughter in 2010.
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