Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr Roger Luncheon disclosed Wednesday that the proposal was made last week and discussed by Cabinet, once more, on Tuesday.

He said this most recent initiative of the Social Partners is a document entitled ‘Security Perspectives’, prepared with the assistance of and important contributions from former heads of the Joint Services.

The Social Partners comprise representatives of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Guyana Bar Association (GBA) and Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) and they consulted retired Police Commissioner Laurie Lewis and two former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Chiefs of Staff, retired Majors General Joe Singh and Norman McLean.

"There is one particular element in the range or menu of measures (in the paper) that deals with the formation of an advisory body. We’re not settled on the composition and we're not settled on what constitutes advice and how it is obtained and how it is rendered… but a civil society body advising and making recommendations to the Government on the way in which it pursues crime and justice issues of the day is an extremely reasonable approach and I would want to believe that it merits the support of all the major players," Luncheon said.

He said:” There is also support that we feel would be quite reasonable for emphasising certain operational and tactical aspects of crime response and crime prevention in that menu of measures...(and) such attention was paid to the solution affecting the road corridor on the East Coast Demerara and the communities affected by the criminals...who are acting in Buxton."

"So, when we examine these proposals in the menu of measures, many of them are reasonable and can indeed be the basis for a fully informed civil society involvement in crime and security. This is entirely in concert with the opinions, maybe even the directives of the (CARICOM) Heads of Government when they met here in Georgetown in July," Luncheon added.

President Jagdeo met a delegation of the Social Partners last week and the group was accompanied to the meeting by Lewis, Singh and Mclean.

They, reportedly, had "fruitful discussions" on the paper submitted by the Social Partners with "a number of suggestions and perspectives" aimed at tackling the current crime situation which has gripped the country.

Luncheon said Cabinet reviewed the crime scene last week and, in that context, the paper presented by the Social Partners on the current security environment.