A Joint Select Committee of the Jamaican Parliament has request­ed over­sight of (inde­com) . This after the Police the JDF and Director of Public Prosecution has for­mal­ly made known their dis­qui­et with the oper­a­tional tenets of the Agency and more so it’s Commissioner Terrence Williams>

Williams who is on his sec­ond term as Commissioner uses the Agency as a per­son­al tool of vendet­ta against law enforce­ment, berat­ing, harass­ing the police agency as well demean­ing the DPP’s office when his wish­es are not adhered to on his timeline.
Additionally Williams have done immea­sur­able harm to the neo­phyte agency from its incep­tion by in-advis­ed­ly align­ing the agency with forces open­ly hos­tile to the police and military.
For all intents and pur­pos­es the well of good­will which ought to exist between the JCF, JDF, Corrections and (inde­com) has been seri­ous­ly poisoned.
As a result (inde­com) is arguably hard­ly as effec­tive as it would be had it not pur­sued an adver­sar­i­al path with the agen­cies over which it has oversight.

The Parliamentary com­mit­tee say over­sight is for ensur­ing inter­nal account­abil­i­ty and over­sight of the man­age­ment of the organisation.
It’s impor­tant to note that the (inde­com) Act came into exis­tence (signed into law) under the JLP and Bruce Golding.
It was no sur­prise that Opposition mem­ber, Delroy Chuck’s posi­tion is that he could only sup­port an over­sight board as a pure­ly review body.
In oth­er words he sup­ports a tooth­less paper tiger as over­sight of an agency many believe clear­ly is out of control.
In oth­er words despite the fail­ings of the law and the hun­dreds of dead Jamaicans each year as a result of police pulling back Delroy Chuck sees no need to have super­vi­sion of Williams and (inde­com).

Minister of National Security Peter Bunting insist­ed that a sub­mis­sion from the direc­tor of pub­lic pros­e­cu­tions point­ed to the need “to hold the delib­er­a­tive process to a high­er stan­dard and to height­en account­abil­i­ty with­in (inde­com)”.
Lets remem­ber that it was the con­tin­ued over­step­ping of his bounds which prompt­ed the DPP to make a sub­mis­sion to the Parliament that Williams was a loose can­non dan­ger­ous­ly out of control.

Bunting to this point seem to be the only per­son with­in the polit­i­cal appa­ra­tus from either side of the polit­i­cal aisle with an iota of oper­a­tional; brain cell . Bunting main­tained ” if mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces con­clude that engag­ing armed vio­lent crim­i­nals is a ‘no win’ exer­cise for them, then we run the risk of facil­i­tat­ing crim­i­nal impuni­ty with obvi­ous adverse con­se­quences to society,”.

This pub­li­ca­tion and this writer have main­tained that per­spec­tive from the incep­tion of (inde­com).
I have been accused of want­i­ng carte blanche for the police, those who know me know this is the fur­thest thing from the truth.
I also advo­cat­ed prop­er over­sight of the police, one which is ful­ly aware of what we ask police offi­cers to do and the com­men­su­rate need which comes with that.
That there be lat­i­tude in the inter­pre­ta­tions of their actions.
This per­spec­tive have earned me the ire of some police offi­cers who view that posi­tion as anti-police as well , go figure?

As I have main­tained from the very begin­ning no one in his right mind could argue that the police do not need keen over­sight and expect to be tak­en seriously .
I have am also of the opin­ion that the answer to cor­rup­tion in the JCF is not (inde­com) as it is configured.
The cre­ation of (inde­com) is mere­ly anoth­er lay­er of Governmental bureau­cra­cy which is not only cost­ing the Jamaican peo­ple dear­ly in terms of dol­lars and cents but in blood and oth­er trea­sures as well.
The monies wast­ed on (inde­com) could have been invest­ed in the police depart­ment mak­ing it a 21^st cen­tu­ry police agency capa­ble of deal­ing with emerg­ing threats.
Conversely what we have is yet anoth­er lay­er of bureau­cra­cy which we are now learn­ing will need anoth­er lay­er of you guessed it , bureaucracy.
CRIME NOW REQUIRE NEW THINKING IS SECURITY APPARATUS UP TO THE TASK…

The Jamaican peo­ple and Government thus far is behold­en to the old adage of not look­ing a gift horse in the mouth .
The help com­ing into the coun­try to (inde­com) sub­se­quent­ly avoids scruti­ny, so too are the motives of the donors. Never mind that law enforce­ment is para­mount in the donor countries.
Nothing shack­les law enforce­ment in their countries.
Jamaicans stead­fast­ly refuse to ask them­selves why are they help­ing to shack­le the police ? Why would they not help the police to con­trol crime?

Terrence Williams points to the reduc­tion in police shoot­ings as a met­ric for what he wants the coun­try to believe is (inde­com’s) suc­cess. What he does not point to is that mur­ders have increased over 22% over the cor­re­spond­ing peri­od the pre­vi­ous year . Oh and by the way that year also saw an increase over the pre­vi­ous year .

As long as the goal remains the preser­va­tion of the Island’s crim­i­nals then Terrence Williams and (inde­com) are doing a great job . Hundreds and hun­dreds of dead Jamaicans be damned.