What are the police doing to end the crime on Bonaire? - thread split

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Would you like to be more specific on where YOU would like my posts to go, or will you run and hide? You have the same clout that Cool Tech has?:shocked2:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ab...fed-cooltech-abc-discussions.html#post5019826

wow, do you tell Net Doc what to do also?:shocked2:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ab...fed-cooltech-abc-discussions.html#post5019826

Ordered and obeyed

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/ab...fed-cooltech-abc-discussions.html#post5019826

 

[ScubaSteve]

You have the same clout that Cool Tech has?:shocked2:

WOW you could not be more wrong there (sort of like your Bonaire rantings)

 

[ScubaSteve]

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[robint]

Pilot Fish ----

You have never been to Bonaire, Your opinion of Bonaire means nothing to me and I am sure to many others here.

 

[dvrliz1]

OK YOU GUYS....PLEASE..THIS IS OFF SUBJECT!!!!!

FYI, for an update on what the police have been doing, They have formed a special task force to investigate tourism/burglary crime on Bonaire. It is called "WIT" Woning Inbraak Team. It does nothing else but work specifically in this area.

It has also been reported to me by several divers that the either the government or Marine Park, not sure who actually is working with local security teams and companies to keep an eye on dive sites. Many divers have reported that they have seen the security people and trucks patrolling dive sites. This is a GOOD THING.

On another note, we have even gone further with security measures. Now not only do we have well lit areas, door jams (so you cannot open the sliders at all from the out side, you would have to break the glass), cameras, decorative rebarb steel grates, but Ed has also installed metal plates on all of the back doors so there is no way to get in the back without "blowing up" the door.

The police are heading in the right direction, be it on island time (we all wish it would go like lightening), but they are working on the security measures. I am happy with what is happening, we get to see it on a day to day basis as we live here. They are getting a lot more training, more sophisticated tools for investigations and crime solving (we are not CSI, yet, but on our way!).

Just an FYI.....

Liz

 

[BHB ScubaTroll]

Liz, Thank you VERY MUCH for the informative information!

 

[TCDiver1]

OK, go to Cozumel

I'm not dissin on Coz, i love the place but it ain't perfect either.

Go back in town and look at all the cast iron security doors and grates on windows or local homes and businesses. I've had a battery stolen out of my rental car there but also had a dive buddy get a regulator he left at Chankanaab returned to him the next day. Some people are honest and some are crooks anywhere you go.

Anyone who doesn't know the score in Bonaire by now hasn't even been trying to research it out. If one can't accept the precautions you need to take while there then don't go there. It's pretty simple really.

I chose to keep visiting there because the diving is great. Accepting some of the consequences that go with that is easy in my case. Bonaire is what it is. Somehow i don't think trying to change it with an attempt at provocative rhetoric on SB is going to change anything.

It's nice to know that some things on SB never change and PiFi is one of them.

 

[mike_s]

OK YOU GUYS....PLEASE..THIS IS OFF SUBJECT!!!!!

FYI, for an update on what the police have been doing, They have formed a special task force to investigate tourism/burglary crime on Bonaire. It is called "WIT" Woning Inbraak Team. It does nothing else but work specifically in this area.

It has also been reported to me by several divers that the either the government or Marine Park, not sure who actually is working with local security teams and companies to keep an eye on dive sites. Many divers have reported that they have seen the security people and trucks patrolling dive sites. This is a GOOD THING.

On another note, we have even gone further with security measures. Now not only do we have well lit areas, door jams (so you cannot open the sliders at all from the out side, you would have to break the glass), cameras, decorative rebarb steel grates, but Ed has also installed metal plates on all of the back doors so there is no way to get in the back without "blowing up" the door.

The police are heading in the right direction, be it on island time (we all wish it would go like lightening), but they are working on the security measures. I am happy with what is happening, we get to see it on a day to day basis as we live here. They are getting a lot more training, more sophisticated tools for investigations and crime solving (we are not CSI, yet, but on our way!).

Just an FYI.....

Liz

Liz... thanks for the update. Glad to see they finally opened their eyes a little.


but any idea what took them so long to finally do something? I mean this has been going on for years....

 

[ScubaSteve]

Pilot Fish ----

You have never been to Bonaire, Your opinion of Bonaire means nothing to me and I am sure to many others here.

As I recall in one of his many wasted spaces call posts, I do recall he claimed to have made one trip to the island in which he experienced ZERO crime first hand. Did he lie before? Yes or No, his opinion still means the same to me as it means to you

 

[Codiak]

Roatan you say? I got ripped off by a crooked bartender/waiter there on my one and only visit, not to mention the risk of malaria and/or military coup.

Just FYI,
My wife and I were in Roatan during the coup.... mostly it was a non-event.
And the biggest thieves were the monkeys who took items off the balconies of the FOREWARNED guests.