Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj has called for a more bal­anced and vic­tim-sen­si­tive ap­proach to com­bat­ing or­gan­ised crime, urg­ing pol­i­cy­mak­ers to ad­dress the so­cial fac­tors that draw women in­to crim­i­nal net­works while main­tain­ing strong ac­tion against crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Ma­haraj made the ap­peal while de­liv­er­ing the open­ing ad­dress at the EL PAc­C­TO 2.0 Re­gion­al Work­shop on The Role of Women in Or­gan­ised Crime in the Caribbean on Tues­day.

The work­shop, host­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Eu­ro­pean Union and re­gion­al part­ners un­der the Eu­ro­pean Pro­gramme of As­sis­tance to Com­bat Cor­rup­tion and Or­gan­ised Crime in Latin Amer­i­ca (EL PAc­C­TO), brought to­geth­er se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials, le­gal ex­perts and pol­i­cy­mak­ers from across the Caribbean and Latin Amer­i­ca.