It is hard for police to find peo­ple who did not attend Court, there is too much onus on the state to find peo­ple,” she suggested.

At the same time, Fletcher advo­cat­ed that inter­est be charged on out­stand­ing traf­fic fines as a fur­ther deterrent.

“These are the pro­ce­dures to be worked,” she told Auto, “I would also love to see peo­ple pay an inter­est for out­stand­ing fines,” said the NRSC exec­u­tive director.

One would rea­son­ably con­clude that since Jamaican author­i­ties are inca­pable of com­ing up with work­able solu­tions , they would at least be able to copy.

During my time in Elementary/​Primary school I had class-mates whom were just inca­pable of learn­ing , back then we just assumed they were dunce , plain and sim­ple. No one knew what to do with those stu­dents , so it was accept­ed they would exit school much the same way they entered, and to a large extent most did. Today schools do a lit­tle bet­ter job in iden­ti­fy­ing stu­dents whom are hav­ing prob­lems , and impli­ment strate­gies in an effort to bring those stu­dents up to per­form­ing at their grade lev­el. They are no longer ref­fered to as dunce, they are called learn­ing chal­lenged or learn­ing disabled.

One thing about those learn­ing dis­abled class­mates, they under­stood one con­cept, the abil­i­ty to copy. some­times they pla­garized their clas­mate’s name in the process, but copy they did .

The issue here is this, we know law­mak­ers in Jamaica are dunce, but even dunce stu­dents are able to pla­garize. How dif­fi­cult is it to copy from those who fig­ured it out ? oth­ers have fig­ured out how to prop­er­ly stream­line traf­fic fines, into dri­vers licenc­ing and every oth­er aspects of doing bussi­ness? Jamaica has an approx­i­mate 2.8 mil­lion peo­ple yet law­mak­ers are unable to copy the sys­tem being used in most devel­oped and devel­op­ing coun­tries . How can any­one respect these dopes ? when they are unable to come up with some­thing that is not re-invent­ing the wheel, some­thing that is being used every­where else , how dif­fi­cult is it to plagarize?

The Police are out there doing what they are sup­posed to do in tick­et­ing offend­ers. However as I have said before, the work of the police is being under­mined and sub­vert­ed by dunce politi­cians in Jamaica. The evi­dence is clear , they are able to col­lect only one quar­ter of the fines, in a coun­try small enough to fit into the State of Connecticut , with a total pop­u­la­tion, one quar­ter that of New York City.

This is a seri­ous indict­ment on the abil­i­ties of those tasked with tak­ing care of the peo­ple’s bussi­ness. Every year, hun­dreds of Jamaicans are killed on the roads in fatal crash­es. Crashes that could have been avoid­ed if the rules of the roads were being observed. No one is say­ing that laws will stop offend­ers from speed­ing, dri­ving drunk,or oper­at­ing con­trary to the rules of the road . What we are say­ing is , untill we can find a panacea, we have to copy leg­is­la­tion from oth­er coun­tries,. see­ing that we are too dunce to fig­ure out on our own what works. 

As I have main­tained in pre­vi­ous blog posts, Legislative lead­er­ship must pre­cede Police action. Police can­not enforce laws that do not exist. Police may work over­time to appre­hend crim­i­nals and offend­ers but if the penal­ties are not com­men­su­rate with the crimes, and the fines, and con­se­quen­cies com­men­su­rate with the offences then as is demon­strat­ed in this report 75% of the police’s effort is wasted.

Politicians have long scape-goat­ed our police depart­ment, set­ting them up to fail, pit­ting police against the com­mu­ni­ties they serve. The police depart­ment has been under­staffed , under sup­port­ed, under equipped, under paid, and under trained since it’s incep­tion. The afer­men­tioned set of cir­cum­stances cre­ates a per­fect storm , a potent mix for fail­ure and inabil­i­ty to deliv­er on their man­date. Such is the posi­tion in which the Jamaica Constabulary’ force finds itself . You will nev­er hear this ass­es­ment from the lack­eys at the top of the JCF . Most of whom , for the most part are too heav­i­ly invest­ed in ass kiss­ing and sub­servience , they are inca­pable of mak­ing prin­ci­pled decisions.

I have nev­er met the Federation’s chair­man, it does seem how­ev­er, that he has a grasp of what’s at stake, and says so in no uncer­tain terms.

Those who are pre­dis­posed to dis­agree­ing with this view, need look no fur­ther than the high attri­tion rate in The JCF , par­tic­u­lar­ly at a time when jobs are hard to come by . I would implore that Agency to release the num­ber of offi­cers that have demit­ted that agency with­in the last twen­ty years , that num­ber would shock most.

I seek to high­light the truth to objec­tive observers, facts you will not hear from the police, most of whom are too scared of their unscrupu­lous ego-mani­a­cal civil­lian boss­es in Government/​oppo­si­tion, you won’t hear it from the crim­i­nal lawyers, or those who say they are in the busi­ness of human rights, I seek to show the truth . You decide.

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