Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07DAKAR656
2007-03-21 13:31:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Dakar
Cable title:  

GUINEA BISSAU: ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONAIRE 2007

Tags:  ASEC AMGT SOCI PU 
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FM AMEMBASSY DAKAR
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 7911
UNCLAS DAKAR 000656 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

FOR DS/IP/ITA, DS/IP/AF, AF/EX AND AF/W

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ASEC AMGT SOCI PU
SUBJECT: GUINEA BISSAU: ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONAIRE 2007

REF: STATE 050692

Although Guinea-Bissau is closed, this report is submitted in
anticipation of leasing commercial office space for TDY personnel.
The following paragraphs and codes are keyed to the ACEQ format
provided by DS/IP/ITA:

UNCLAS DAKAR 000656

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

FOR DS/IP/ITA, DS/IP/AF, AF/EX AND AF/W

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: ASEC AMGT SOCI PU
SUBJECT: GUINEA BISSAU: ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONAIRE 2007

REF: STATE 050692

Although Guinea-Bissau is closed, this report is submitted in
anticipation of leasing commercial office space for TDY personnel.
The following paragraphs and codes are keyed to the ACEQ format
provided by DS/IP/ITA:


1. Crime Mobility: (E)

Opportunistic criminal elements roam freely day or night and target
affluent residential areas for burglary.


2. Crime ambience around neighborhoods: (C)

Most American embassy personnel resided on compound until post
closed in June 1998. Most neighborhoods in Bissau are surrounded
within walking distance of high crime areas.


3. Aggressiveness of Criminals: (B)

Criminal perpetrators usually commit street crimes and burglaries,
but rely on stealth during burglaries.


4. Arming of Criminals: (B)

Although sometimes armed with firearms, criminal perpetrators
usually are armed with knives or lethal cutting weapons. Reports
indicate that machetes and other sharp instruments are the most
common weapons used to commit crimes.


5. Aggregation of Criminals: (C)

Criminal perpetrators usually operate in groups of two to four
individuals. Street scams, pick pocketing, purse snatching, and
theft by intimidation are frequently perpetrated by small groups of
individuals. Often beggars and vendors create a distraction, while
collaborators accost the victim.


6. Deterrence/Response of Police: (D)

Local police or neighborhood associations are totally ineffective at
deterring or disrupting burglaries and other crimes and seldom are
able to apprehend or arrest suspects after the fact.


7. Training/Professionalism of Police: (F)

Police are a negative factor; besides being inept, untrained and
uncaring, they are corrupt and may collaborate with criminal
elements, or carry out crimes themselves under protection of their
official duties.

JACKSON