Panic buttons for domestic violence victims

Last Updated on Thursday, 14 August 2025, 18:56 by Writer

President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday night announced that, as part of Guyana’s technological drive, victims of domestic violence will be provided with panic buttons to allow them to get emergency assistance.

“Women, who are subjected to domestic and other forms of violence, they will have a panic button that is integrated in a national security system,” he told a People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) election campaign meeting in Alexander Village, Georgetown.

He explained that once a woman files one police violence report, she will be given a panic button to press, if requires, and that request would be registered on a security platform so that she can receive assistance.

The government has already deployed an e-ticketing system to go after speeding drivers rather than rely on traffic police officers who, the President said, were being accused of all sorts of things.

Plans are also in the pipeline to introduce an electronic payment system that would be linked to a digital identification card that was currently being developed.