GEORGETOWN: With the recent spike in armed robberies across the country, a city businessman agreed to set up a reward fund for information leading to the arrests and convictions of armed robbers.
Owner of RK Security Service, Roshan Khan, is calling on the business community to come together and work towards setting up the committee.
Once the committee is fully organized, the business community can pool money together. The money will then be used to pay members of the public who can provide information that could lead to the arrest of criminals.
Khan recently offered a $1M reward for information on the identity of four gunmen, who recently shot one of his security guards who was on duty, and escaped with an undisclosed sum of cash.
He said that if no vital information is provided on the identity of the armed robbers, he is ready to hand over the reward money to the committee. The businessman believes that this will be very effective in tackling crime.
“It has to be a properly managed fund (committee). The business community has to come together and form this in order to tackle crime. It will be good too if the government can contribute,” the founder of the security service said.
Khan made it clear that the committee can be managed by anyone, including members from within the Government, Chambers of Commerce or the private sector committee.
“We can have people from the government and from the business community running it (committee). That way, we will have a free and fair system and it will be well organized,” the businessman lamented.
Persons willing to get onboard can contact the security firm when plans on moving forward will be discussed.
In the first eight months of this year, there were 613 robberies in which firearms were used. A whopping 283 robberies were reported where other instruments were used by perpetrators. This represents a 10 percent increase in serious crimes as compared to last year.
According to Khan, for the past 37 years in the security system, this is the first time that he has seen criminality to this extent.
“The police are doing a good job but there is more to be done. Every citizen must be prepared to offer information,” Khan said.
He said that it is sickening when he opens the newspaper every day and sees someone getting robbed and sometimes even shot.
The businessman said that police should never let their guard down when things appear to calm down, because that is when the criminals strike again.
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