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Noise Pollution: Environmental police effective on the field

A lot has been said about noise pollution during the recent months. In January 2017, the Police environmental department mounted a task force to deal with the various complaints from the community. Two months after its existence, the department received 30 complaints from households’ noise pollution, four complaints for car pollution and three cases against picnickers. All have been dealt with and the offenders have been warned.

The Chief of Environmental Police, Andre Freminot, aong with police spokesperson Jean Toussaint, met the press this week to take stock of the situation and talk about the way forward.

“The majority of the population obeys and respects the laws. Unfortunately there are still some complaints about noise pollution. After a new set of laws was enacted last year, the Environment Protection Act, it helped in acting like a deterrent and prevents more offences to be committed. We want to inform the public that there is a task force and we are very serious about our interventions. We want to ask them to redeem themselves before we get into action,” explained Mr Toussaint.

“It has been two months since we are patrolling the hot spots and visiting districts on Mahé only. We have been responding to complaints. When an offence is committed, the police collect all the relevant information and the culprit is warned. Then the information is handed over to the environmental police. It is only the director of Environment that has the mandate to issue a notice for action,” noted Mr Freminot.

The Environment Police do act on Praslin and La Digue also whenever there are complaints.

Impostor Facebook profiles in Caroline Abel’s name

The Central Bank of Seychelles has communicated to the local media the discovery of Facebook profiles, in the name of its governor Caroline Abel.

In a communiqué released yesterday, the bank has highlighted to the public and media that these profiles are fakes and must in no way be associated with the bank’s governor who, for the time being, has no official presence on this social media platform in her capacity as governor and as well as at a personal level.

Cybercrime on the rise - Businessmen, public warned

Cybercrime is on the rise as many local businessmen and ordinary citizens who do purchases and other money transactions online have lost large sums which have been intercepted and transferred to other fake accounts other than to the original accounts. 

This is after their emails had been hacked and personal information stolen by well-organised criminals from overseas.

Most of these financial interception scams are coming from countries in the Far East as well as South Africa where most Seychellois do business transactions.

This is why the police in collaboration with the Financial Investigation Unit (FUI), the Central Bank of Seychelles and the Bankers Association have come together to warn and educate the public on increasing financial cybercrime activities.

The public at large, especially the business community, are being advised to verify the authenticity of their clients’ details or call their clients to be on the safe side before making any overseas payment transactions.

Police reward staff

 A group of police officers who have followed various training courses have received their certificates while others have been recognised for their long years of service with the force.

This took place during a ceremony held yesterday at the Seychelles Trading Company’s conference room in the presence of the Minister for Home Affairs Mitcy Larue, Commissioner of Police Reginald Elizabeth, Air Seychelles representative Joel De Commarmond, senior officers and members of the Seychelles Police.

Twenty-nine officers received certificates for Developing Performance Leadership, thirteen received certificates for Training of Trainers while fourteen received their Customer Service certificates.

The three courses were delivered by the University of Seychelles (UniSey) during the course of 2015 and 2016.

A group of eleven officers who took a refresher course in practical First Aid led by the Red Cross Society of Seychelles (RCSS) also received their certificate.

Officers who were rewarded for their long years of service and exemplary conduct have clocked 15, 25 and 40 years with the force.

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