Dear Editor,
The simplest solution to the growing crime being perpetrated against our jewellery merchants is to eliminate the getaway vehicles of the criminals.
First, all scooter and motorcycle traffic should be banned from the street during business hours. Two police officers should be stationed on Front Street at all times, one at L’Escargot and one in the square just beside Ballerina.
All cars coming down the street should be stopped by the officers, if the car is occupied by an obvious tourist or delivery vehicle then they should be allowed to pass. If the car in question is occupied by non-tourists or not a delivery person then those vehicles should be steered up the streets past Anand Indian restaurant in the case of the L’Escargot stop, or up past the courthouse in the case of the centre of town.
Presto, no more getaway vehicles.
Ian Shaw
