BUSINESSMAN Shahab Hack has made a call for members of the business community to come forward and play a more meaningful role with respect to their social responsibilities, especially to the young people and residents of troubled communities.Mr. Hack was at the time speaking with the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday following a police engagement with the community of Agricola, East Bank Demerara.

According to Hack, who is also the chairman of the West Demerara Road Safety Council and a member of the National Road Safety Council, he has personally seen the benefits of social interventions in tackling crime.
The Chronicle was told by the businessman that he has decided to work along with the police on their social crime prevention initiatives at a higher level after witnessing the impact it has had on communities along the East Coast and West Coast of Demerara, along with several communities in Region 4, including Albouystown, Mocha and Rosemary Lane.
Hack said that he shares the Police Commissioner’s vision and called on his colleagues in the business sector to play a more meaningful role as it is no secret that the police do not have the financial resources to do it alone.
SOCIAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES
“We as businessmen and women should advance the social crime prevention strategy of the force so that it can be taken farther since the force is not equipped financially to deal with it and we as business people have our social and moral responsibilities to honour to our nation and the future generation,” Hack declared.
Meanwhile, the businessman has been working very closely with the force for several years now but upped his involvement after the police took on its social crime prevention approach. (Leroy Smith)