NOTICE SHOOTERS IN CUSTODY
According to the Jamaican Police two men are in custody for the December 21st shooting of Dr. Raymoth Notice the former Mayor of Spanish Town.
Notice was allegedly shot while washing his car at his home near the town of Bog Walk in St. Catherine.
This page applaud the police in the arrest of the two men whose names have not been released, even as I question how they are able to bring cases like these involving well connected people to closure this swiftly and efficiently while the same is non-existent for poorer less influential Jamaicans.
I am not privy to the circumstances within the Investigations which precipitated the speedy arrest of the two individuals in custody, nevertheless as a matter of conscience I implore the police to attach the same level of importance ‚alacrity and urgency to other case involving Jamaicans who do not have the benefit of high name recognition.
For it’s in the fair and equitable dispensation of justice that all our people will feel that they too matter, that they have a stake in our country which invariably will make them partners in the fight against crime.
POLICE CHARGE TWO WITH KILLING OF (JUTC) DRIVER
The Half-Way-Tree Police have reported charging Garfield Walters, 22, and George Ballentine, 28, both of Bedward Gardens, with the killing of Albert Barnes.
According to Jamaican media Barnes was driving a JUTC bus along Bedward Crescent, Kingston 7 on December 29 when explosions were heard. He was later found with a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to hospital where he died while being treated.
According to Police Walters surrendered to the Yallahs Police in St Thomas on Friday, January 01, while Ballentine was picked up by the police during an operation in August Town, St Andrew on January 04. The police say a .380 semi-automatic pistol and 24 rounds of ammunition were taken from Ballentine.
The police are yet to say whether they are able to determine if the weapon taken from Ballentine was the one used to kill mister Barnes.
So the police do have the ability to solve crime in Jamaica when there is public pressure to solve a particular case. On that basis Jamaicans must demand that going forward the police attach the very same levels of importance to each and every murder they are tasked with solving.
I fully understand that not every murder will be solved, yet I am confident that though woefully under-staffed , under-equipped, and under-paid the police can bring more criminals to justice.
This of course will require greater motivation and appreciation from the political bosses and greater understanding of policing and leadership from the brass of the force.
Policing has changed in Jamaica some say for the better, thus far the crime numbers tell a different story.
A known murderer caught with a gun in custody?
The fear of being hauled before the courts on murder charges has crippled the police’s ability to effectively remove murderers from the streets with the knowledge they will never return .
Lets not kid ourselves these viscous killers will not be put away by the present crop of criminal coddling judges who sits on the Island’s benches.
For the liberal élite on the Island that is progress.
In the end the liberal socialist courts will find a way to discredit the evidence against these two scumbags and they will be returned to the streets to kill again and again.
By the way even before they are returned to the streets permanently they will be let loose on bail.
It is safe to assume these two have killed before, maybe several times prior to killing mister Barnes.
The case will drag on and on and on until it is tossed from the docket that is the way killers are rewarded in Jamaica.
DUPPY FILM STILL AT LARGE HOWEVER
In the meantime the cop-killer (duppy film) is no closer to being caught today than when he snuffed out the lives of two police officers at Poor Man’s Corner in St. Thomas last December.
What this blogger has heard is largely talk from one member of the police hierarchy whom I personally know could not catch a fly stuck to a glue pad.
Why are the families of slain officers not subject to the same courtesy of attention given to the Notice and Barnes family?
In other countries when a cop is killed police drop everything and attend to bringing that cop-killer to justice.
Why is the same level of attention not being brought to bear on finding and eliminating (duppy film)?
Why is this cop killer’s body not on a slab at Maddens?
As police officers when you bring these unapologetic killers in you are servicing the needs of the soul-less socialist élite.
Officers must decide whether they are going to continue risking their lives for them while paying no attention to the killers of their fallen comrades.