Kern Omar Spencer, MP (born 21 June 1974 in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica) is a Jamaican politi­cian. A mem­ber of the People’s National Party, Mr. Spencer served as Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Elizabeth North Eastern from 2007 to 2011.

Kern Spencer. And his assis­tant Coleen Wright.

While a state min­is­ter in the ener­gy min­istry in the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment led by the PNP, Spencer was placed in charge of an ener­gy-sav­ing project. The project involved the dis­tri­b­u­tion of four mil­lion free Cuban light bulbs island-wide. The project was imple­ment­ed in July 2006.^[3] Allegations of irreg­u­lar­i­ties in the project were lev­eled against Spencer in Parliament in November 2007 by then Energy Minister Clive Mullings, who asked the audi­tor-gen­er­al and the con­trac­tor-gen­er­al to probe the mat­ter ^[3] Clive Mullings, told Parliament that $114 mil­lion was improp­er­ly spent on the dis­tri­b­u­tion of four mil­lion ener­gy-sav­ing light bulbs donat­ed by the Cuban Government to the peo­ple of Jamaica.^{[4]wikipedia.}

The Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court rul­ing that Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey does not have the pow­er to sub­poe­na Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewelyn as a wit­ness in the tri­al. Pusey, who is pre­sid­ing over the tri­al, had chal­lenged the Supreme Court rul­ing.(jamaica​glean​er​.com)

Let me be clear about one thing, irre­spec­tive of my per­son­al dis­like for politi­cians, and my per­son­al feel­ings as to what hap­pened in this case, the accused, Kern Spencer must be giv­en due process. He must be pre­sumed inno­cent until proven guilty by a court of law.

All fair mind­ed Jamaicans want in this mat­ter is that jus­tice be done. I have no infor­ma­tion about the guilt or inno­cence of the accused, so I am thrilled that the high court has now cleared the way for the tri­al to go ahead.

From the begin­ning that this case came to the nation’s atten­tion I opined in these blogs and wher­ev­er else my views are allowed, that there would be mas­sive stone-walling which would see this case delayed and delayed until it is tossed from the cal­en­dar for want of prosecution.

There is prece­dent which sup­ports my cyn­i­cism, the pow­er­ful and well con­nect­ed in Jamaica sim­ply do not get con­vict­ed in a court of law or gets sent to prison. Despite mas­sive cor­rup­tion , graft , and acts of thiev­ery which per­me­ates Jamaica’s polit­i­cal system,I stand to be cor­rect­ed but to the best of my rec­ol­lec­tion there has only been one politi­cian ever con­vict­ed and sent to prison. That was for­mer labor Minister in the JLP ‚JAG Smith, (now deceased).

We don’t know what will hap­pen in this case, Spencer and the PNP can afford to pay some pret­ty com­pe­tent defense coun­sel, which is nev­er in short sup­ply in Jamaica. In fact I thought that like so many oth­er cas­es involv­ing the con­nect­ed, defense coun­sel would be able to use the laws to Spencer“s advan­tage to pre­vent a tri­al. When the loop-holes in the penal code are con­sid­ered , shod­dy police work, added to poor prepa­ra­tion and just bad pros­e­cu­tion, it’s a won­der any­one gets con­vict­ed for crimes in Jamaica.

Even when there are con­vic­tions they gen­er­al­ly gets over­turned on appeal.

I nev­er imag­ined that the stone-walling would come from the Bench. 

From the incep­tion of this medi­um, I have report­ed and com­ment­ed on the judi­cial activism of Judith Pusey. Case after case, com­ment after com­ment she has over­stepped the nor­mal deco­rum of judi­cial restraint. This per­for­mance how­ev­er takes the cake. There are not many instances if any, where a Magistrate has so inject­ed her/​himself into a case, that defense coun­sel did not need to get involved. The Magistrate appoint­ed her­self default-defense coun­sel for Kern Spencer.

She picked a fight with the Director of Public Prosecution on her author­i­ty to decide who should be used as wit­ness, as against who should be the prin­ci­pal offend­er, she chal­lenged the evi­dence, she chal­lenged the way the evi­dence was col­lect­ed, and she used tax­pay­ers mon­ey to chal­lenge the DPP to the High Court.

As I said then, this Magistrate needs to be tak­en down a peg, her brand of activism is bet­ter suit­ed for defense coun­sel, she should do the hon­or­able thing and resign upon which she can join Spencer’s defense team. The Jamaica peo­ple can­not and will not get jus­tice in this case as long as Judith Pusey is allowed to hear this case.

It is incum­bent on the Chief Justice to remove her from this case now in the inter­est of Justice.Whether she did any­thing wrong is not impor­tant, Justice must not only be done it must seem to be done. Her actions before have been eye­brow rais­ing on instance, ques­tion­able on oth­ers, on this case her behav­ior has been disgraceful.

Our coun­try do not need Magistrates or Judges who see their role as that of crim­i­nal defend­er, it is about time that some com­pe­tent author­i­ty take a real close look at her. Justice can­not be hostage to a Resident Magistrate whose moti­va­tions are unclear.

Ok scratch that there is no com­pe­tent author­i­ty in Jamaica to do that, God help our lit­tle Island.

Cops in Jamaica have point­ed to what they char­ac­ter­ize as the re-emer­gence of cocaine com­ing from South America. They brag that they have smashed the Lotto scam and cites that as the rea­son cocaine is once again flood­ing the streets of the small car­ribean country.

Even as a sup­port­er of law enforce­ment in Jamaica I some­times have to shake my head in dis­be­lief at some of their utter­ances. First they con­tend­ed that they smashed the cocaine ring which result­ed in the lot­to rack­et, now they claim they smashed the lot­to scam so cocaine is back.

Ok, if you are con­fused you may not be alone, because none of this is true and nev­er will be true. Cocaine nev­er went any­where, and nei­ther will the lot­to scam or any oth­er crime which has the poten­tial to net the actors illic­it income.

The Jamaican Police does not serve the inter­est of the pub­lic or itself as an Agency when it refuse to name the South American Country from which the major­i­ty of cocaine is flow­ing into Jamaica.

It dimin­ish­es what­ev­er lit­tle cred­i­bil­i­ty the Agency may still have left, if any. Much the same way it con­tin­ues not to name dirty crim­i­nals who are attached to either polit­i­cal par­ty when they com­mit crimes.

One of the most effec­tive crime fight­ing tools law enforce­ment has at it’s dis­pos­al is exact­ly the oppo­site of what the Jamaican police does with crim­i­nals, hid­ing their iden­ti­ty. All crim­i­nals must be arrest­ed with fan­fare and made to do what is called a perp-walk for the cam­eras. Shaming crim­i­nals must be exploit­ed for what it’s worth, par­tic­u­lar­ly in a coun­try which is lit­er­al­ly inun­dat­ed with crime and terror.

But of course it would be remiss of me to think that the cas­trat­ed lap-dog police force in Jamaica would be able to pull this off. Criminals are crim­i­nals, be they rogue states or peo­ple, whether it be Portia or Azan, Columbia or Panama, the peo­ple need to know that the laws apply to all.

I cau­tion and implore the JCF to stop being a car­toon Police Force and once and for all start learn­ing how to be a cred­i­ble law enforce­ment Agency. The first order of busi­ness is to stop mak­ing stu­pid and inane statements.

Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, by a human being, with malice afore- thought. It is contrary to common law. What that means is that it is a given, it doesn’t need to be legislated , you simply do not unlawfully take the life of another human being.

There are real­ly no absolutes in any­thing, there are always oth­er ways of doing things, we may not agree , but because we can­not see an alter­na­tive way of doing things does­n’t mean there is no oth­er way. The Death penal­ty is one such issue. There are strong opin­ions on both sides of the death penal­ty issue and it’s appli­ca­tion. In many coun­tries it has been out­lawed as a form of pun­ish­ment. Opponents argued suc­cess­ful­ly in those local­i­ties that it is cru­el and inhu­mane pun­ish­ment. Never mind that those to whom the death penal­ty is admin­is­tered, are deemed mur­der­ers who nev­er gave a thought to the cru­el inhu­mane treat­ment they were met­ing out to their victims.

Some argue it is inef­fec­tive as a deter­rent to mur­der and as such it should be abol­ished. Others argue the death penal­ty from religious/​moral per­spec­tives. They make the case that soci­ety should for­give. My con­tention about the moral/​religious argu­ments are as fol­lows. If we believe the Bible’s account of Jesus’ death on the cross, be remind­ed that two peo­ple were also exe­cut­ed with him. As far as the Bible’s account of that con­ver­sa­tion between Jesus and the two men are con­cerned, at least one of the men agreed that he deserved the pun­ish­ment met­ed out to him. Also be remind­ed Jesus in his mer­cy for­gave that man for his sins, he was still made to pay the price for his sins.

That man was a thief not a mur­der­er, yet he and the oth­er paid the ulti­mate price for the acts they com­mit­ted, with the guilt­less Savior. Jesus nev­er once rebuked the author­i­ties for admin­is­ter­ing the death penal­ty to the thieves , much less him­self an inno­cent man. The notion that Capital pun­ish­ment is not a deter­rent is ludi­crous at best and at worst can­not be proven by those who make those claims. People who kill and are found guilty, who have exceed­ed all of their appeals under the law, and are put to death, are deterred. As I have said before there are no sil­ver bul­lets to any prob­lem but for that one mur­der­er, soci­ety need not wor­ry anymore.

Of all the things which infu­ri­ates me about those who are anti-cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment, noth­ing both­ers me more than their hyp­o­crit­i­cal silence on the issues of vic­tims rights. They pre­tend that the vic­tims nev­er exist­ed, or show bla­tant and dis­re­spect­ful dis­re­gard for the rights of the inno­cent, even as they lob­by for that of the guilty.

In Jamaica Authorities have accept­ed the notion, that putting beast­ly demon­ic crim­i­nals who kill mul­ti­ple peo­ple with­out com­punc­tion to death, is cru­el and inhu­mane treat­ment. They have accept­ed what many in the Industrialized devel­oped world does­n’t, that we should sim­ply for­give those demons. As such a free for all exists as it regards the tak­ing of human life, there is no fear of con­se­quence, be it impris­on­ment or death. Anti death penal­ty lob­by­ists are as much at risk as those peo­ple who are will­ing to see the law take it’s course in a just and prop­er way.

Jamaicans in the know, are aware that on the streets it is to one’s cred­it to claim how many peo­ple he has killed, in local ver­nac­u­lar(how much dup­py him mek). It is dis­gust­ing to hear fraud­u­lent Elitist make anti-death penal­ty argu­ments, when they live in coun­tries which embrace and use the death penal­ty as an effec­tive tool in the fight against seri­ous crime and terror.

Those who argue that the death penal­ty should not be used because of the risk of killing the inno­cent do so with some legit­i­ma­cy. There have been cas­es where the inno­cent have been put to death due to impro­pri­ety by law enforce­ment offi­cers and pros­e­cu­tors who reused to pay atten­tion to excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence for var­i­ous rea­sons to include race and oth­er con­sid­er­a­tions. The emer­gence of DNA evi­dence as a crime fight­ing tool has freed a con­sid­er­able amount of peo­ple wrong­ly convicted.

The con­clu­sive nature of DNA evi­dence also makes the case for the appli­ca­tion of the death penal­ty, even as it weeds out the inno­cent. Those opposed to cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment on the grounds that the inno­cent may be wrong­ly con­vict­ed, have no legit­i­mate quar­rel with the death penal­ty, their issue ought to be with unscrupu­lous cops and pros­e­cu­tors and tardy crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tems like the one which obtains in Jamaica.

You sim­ply do not throw out the baby with the bath-water, I urge the Jamaican Authorities to get on with the busi­ness of car­ry­ing out the will of the elec­torate and hang the cal­lous mur­der­ers on death row.

I have consistently said in these blogs that the present leadership in Jamaica will not be able to turn the country around, from the plague of serious crimes and poverty.

I have post­ed for your infor­ma­tion a speech giv­en by the coun­try’s National Security Minister Peter Bunting. I must con­grat­u­late Minister Bunting for the can­did elo­quence and heart-felt empa­thy which is inher­ent in his speech. I am not a fan of politi­cians and cer­tain­ly no fan of Bunting, but for this moment and this speech I do believe the Minister is being sin­cere. But in as much as Minister Bunting was being sin­cere, his speech gave a not often seen win­dow into the soul of how he and the Miller Administration feels at least on the sub­ject of crime. On this issue I am vin­di­cat­ed in my pro­nounce­ments that they do not have the answers , but I’m also fear­ful for the Jamaican peo­ple whose lead­er­ship is at their wit’s end on how to con­tain crime.

I would like to draw your atten­tion to this sen­tence I pulled from para­graph 3 of the Minister’s speech.

Quote: “However, I think that after 15 months I am con­vinced that the best efforts of the secu­ri­ty forces, by itself, will not solve the crime prob­lem in Jamaica.”

By this state­ment alone, the Minister revealed that they had no plan as an admin­is­tra­tion to curb, much less cure the crime epi­dem­ic, as I have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly point­ed out.

I can­not write too much on this issue, my site admin­is­tra­tor tells me my blogs are too long wind­ed, but I just want to give the Minister a few point­ers. He may con­tact me for details.

(1) Tough uncom­pro­mis­ing leg­is­la­tion which puts crim­i­nals away for good, look at the American Rico Statue.

(2) Set per­for­mance stan­dards for all police Officers, to elim­i­nat­ing dead-wood cops from the depart­ment, start­ing with the Commissioner of Police down.

(3) Remove the Police Department from polit­i­cal con­trol. Create an effec­tive Police review board from civ­il soci­ety. Each mem­ber of that pan­el should have impec­ca­ble cre­den­tials, (as per crim­i­nal record), like that of police offi­cers. Panelist must be sup­port­ive of the rule of law and of the needs of law enforce­ment officers.

(4) Equip the Police with the tools they need to do their jobs.

(5) Divide the coun­try into grids, keep tight con­trol of each grid by posi­tion­ing offi­cers at strate­gic loca­tions in vehi­cles so they may respond to the needs of the cus­tomers , the Jamaican public.

(6) This would effec­tive­ly remove cops from sta­tion hous­es and place them with the public.

(7) Sub Officers and offi­cers must be out with the men aug­ment­ing staff strength, day and night .

(8) The way patrols are done must be revamped. There is no need for offi­cers on patrol to be dri­ving around for an 8 hour shift, it is a colos­sal waste of gas and wear and tear on the vehi­cles which are already in short sup­ply> (see parked strate­gi­cal­ly in grid per­spec­tive).

(9)All ser­vice vehi­cles must be added to grid sup­port, no gazetted or sub-offi­cer should dri­ve a ser­vice vehi­cle home. All use of vehi­cles must be for doc­u­ment­ed police duties.

(10) Increase expo­nen­tial­ly, penal­ties not just for prin­ci­pal offend­ers who com­mit crimes ‚but also for sec­ondary offend­ers who aid or are oth­er­wise involved.(see rico statute)

(11) Hire and train more detec­tives, give them mer­it pay/​promotions.

(12) Remove cops from office duties except in super­vi­so­ry positions.

(13) No police depart­ment makes pub­lic its inter­nal mem­os. Stop mak­ing the Force Orders pub­lic, giv­ing away staff strength, , where cer­tain offi­cers are sta­tioned, or will be trans­ferred to and oth­er infor­ma­tion the pub­lic has no expec­ta­tion of hav­ing. You are endan­ger­ing offi­cers lives, and threat­en­ing nation­al security.

I give the Minister a 13 point plan com­men­su­rate with the list of thir­teens attrib­uted to his speech. Bunting’s addressed was on April 13^th, 2013 to the “13^th Annual Prayer and Thanksgiving Service for the Security Forces of Jamaica”

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has long lamented the shortage or absence of resources to get the job done effectively.

Police Station ‚Constant Spring:

Recently the Force announced it was oper­at­ing with 50% of the resources it needs to get the job done. Having served in the JCF I under­stand the seri­ous­ness of not hav­ing even the most basic resource to do the job.

On the oth­er hand I was also wit­ness to the JCF’s lack of man­age­ment, which result­ed in excep­tion­al waste and dupli­ca­tion of efforts, fur­ther com­pli­cat­ing the resource issue.

These waste gen­er­al­ly are clear, first in the qual­i­ty of a por­tion of the Force, there have always been too many offi­cers who should find alter­na­tive employ­ment. This is attrib­ut­able to their lazi­ness, lack of focus, lack of integri­ty, lack of love for the job, lack of com­mit­ment to the cause.There are legit­i­mate argu­ments to be made for a lack of com­mit­ment. I would sim­ply argue that though those argu­ments are legit­i­mate, they are not rea­son enough to be a slack­er . Those opposed to work­ing for the wages , or are offend­ed by oth­er sit­u­a­tions are free to leave.

Then there is the treat­ment of the vehi­cles , which gen­er­al­ly are not suit­ed to Jamaica’s ter­rain, no fault of the Police and sec­ond­ly the round the clock oper­a­tion of the vehi­cles, again this is not some­thing that should rea­son­ably be pinned on the depart­ment, it is attrib­ut­able to the shortage.

The way patrols are done are inef­fec­tive and counter-pro­duc­tive even. This needs a com­plete reassessment .

On the gen­er­al issue of waste, the same argu­ments may be made about many busi­ness­es and agen­cies in Jamaica and oth­er coun­tries. Jamaica sim­ply can­not afford it.

When both sides of the resource issue is con­sid­ered, the truth lies some­where in between the two sides, with a lean­ing toward not near­ly enough of any­thing to do the job. With that said the true test of any man­ag­er or man­age­ment com­pa­ny, is to do the best job pos­si­ble with lim­it­ed resources.

In the American civ­il war between North and South, Union General, Westmoreland com­plained to President Abraham Lincoln about not hav­ing enough Troops to attack the Confederate South, Lincoln replaced Westmoreland with General Ulysses S Grant. We all know that Grant won the war sav­ing and cement­ing the Union and the United States as we know it today.

My point is that Jamaica is a poor devel­op­ing coun­try, many peo­ple will chal­lenge me even on the notion of Jamaica being a devel­op­ing coun­try. There will nev­er be enough resource to go around. Neither polit­i­cal par­ty is par­tic­u­lar­ly fond of the rule of law, in fact some of the peo­ple at the high­est lev­el of Government/​Opposition are crim­i­nals, or at a bare min­i­mum, main­tain crim­i­nal con­tact. They do not want a pro­fes­sion­al com­pe­tent and inde­pen­dent police department.

Late 1987 I was tem­po­ral­ly trans­ferred to Constant Spring along with three oth­er men, Allen Gauntlet, Keith Skully and O Marston oth­er­wise called (Fat-Ball), Marston was some­what port­ly, hence the moniker. None of us was full trans­ferred in Force Orders from The Mobile Reserve where we were offi­cial­ly sta­tioned, we were sim­ply sent to fill the vac­uüm which was left from the trans­fer of then Detective Sargent Cornwall (big­ga) Ford, a leg­end, who had just been trans­ferred to the Flying Squad, based at the Kingston Central Police compound.

For the record, nev­er let any­one tell you that name brand-cops do noth­ing to bend the crime curve south. Determined crim­i­nals have esca­lat­ed crime, deter­mined cops bend the curve south. 

Throughout our coun­try’s his­to­ry there have been noto­ri­ous­ly dan­ger­ous crim­i­nals, these men have large­ly gained their noto­ri­ety, through dif­fer­ent means , brutality,callousness, aid­ed and abet­ted by sym­pa­thet­ic mem­bers of the pub­lic, Politics, cor­rupt-cops, the ter­rain of our coun­try, and oth­er means.

Conversely we have pro­duced deter­mined cops who knew how to remove crim­i­nals from the streets, Cops like Keith (trin­i­ty) Gardener, Joe Williams, Anthony Hewitt, Altimoth (par­ra) Campbell, Isiah Laing, are some of the more rec­og­niz­able names, of course there are men, and yes Women, Like Hortense Brown, who in many cas­es were just as effec­tive, Dick Hibbert, Ruddy Dwyer, Benjamin, O C Hare, and a long line of valiant sol­diers of urban polic­ing who under­stood our coun­try’s ter­ror­ists and how to deal with them.

The men and women whom I did not men­tion need not doubt their con­tri­bu­tion to our coun­try’s sta­bil­i­ty, you know your­selves, the point was about the most cel­e­brat­ed, the most well known.

I nev­er wore , nei­ther did I ever see a bul­let-proof vest dur­ing my decade of ser­vice from 1982 to 1992, we did not have com­put­ers, we did not even have type-writ­ers, at the Constant Spring CIB which serves some of the most depressed com­mu­ni­ties and some of the most upscale, we did not have a typewriter.

I sug­gest­ed to detec­tive Seargant McInnis that we use col­ored pins and a map of our geo­graph­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty to assist us. Different col­or pins rep­re­sent­ed dif­fer­ent types of crimes. Red for mur­der, blue for rapes, green for break-ins, yel­low for shoot­ings and so on.

This very sim­ple ‚unso­phis­ti­cat­ed method, allowed us to see, in real terms ‚what type of crimes were being com­mit­ted where. Complainants sup­plied us with the when, it made it eas­i­er for us to find the who.

I sought and gained per­mis­sion to approach inter­est­ed par­ties oper­at­ing in our precinct, and asked for old dis­card­ed type-writ­ers. Business-peo­ple were more than hap­py to give us usable type-writ­ers and desks, this made the demand from the kha­ki-clad clowns for a tor­rent of paper-work more pos­si­ble. At the time I was at the CIB office, they demand­ed 5 copies of all crimes com­mit­ted in the Parish of St. Thomas, St. Catherine and St. Andrew North, which con­sti­tut­ed Police Area 5.

It gen­er­al­ly took hours to record the crimes from St Catherine, a sin­gle detec­tive work­ing the office on any giv­en night would start writ­ing as soon as he entered the office at 8:pm some­times he would still be writ­ing at 9:am when the morn­ing shift arrived and some­times , long after. All of those crimes in detail had to be record­ed by hand and dupli­cat­ed 5 times.

I came up with the nov­el idea of car­bon paper, they put the brakes on that com­plain­ing that car­bon cre­at­ed smudges, which ren­dered the doc­u­ment illeg­i­ble, so it was back to writ­ing and writ­ing and writing.

One copy for the Commissioner’s Office, one for the Divisional Officer, one for the Area Officer,one for the crime chief. one for the Divisional Detective Inspector. A colos­sal waste of paper and man­pow­er to large­ly sat­is­fy the egos of lazy pompous over­weight dead-woods.

My point in all of this is this. The Commissioner will nev­er have all the resources he needs, what he does have is the infi­nite resource called the brain. Commissioner Ellington must devel­op strate­gies in con­junc­tion with capa­ble offi­cers at his dis­pos­al, to stop the scourge of crime. That will not get done with most of the kha­ki-clad crew he has, most should be retired to save tax-pay­ers money.

Pushing paper, or sit­ting behind a desk is not polic­ing. Most of these peo­ple, some I served with, are more con­cerned with the way a piece of fools-cap paper is fold­ed, so they may write non­sense on it, than how to remove crim­i­nals from the streets. In fact, many of them nev­er arrest­ed any­one, nev­er been to court, but they are car­rear cops, and don’t ever let them hear an explo­sion, Usain Bolt would have to seri­ous­ly strug­gle to keep his world record.

No won­der the coun­try is inun­dat­ed with crime, the kha­ki-clad clowns are more cor­rupt, more cor­rod­ed by pol­i­tics than the young men. Money being the only thing which flows upstream.

I would be hap­py to sup­ply the Commissioner with a detailed plan, out­lin­ing how to reduce crime by 20 to 30% in the first year. By the time the sec­ond year comes around, crime will begin to take a seri­ous trend downwards.

All he has to do is ask.

More to come on this issue:

Commissioner Owen Ellington :

The Police High Command has raised the threat levels against it’s members to extreme. They say they have credible information that certain criminals are determined to kill cops even in their own homes.

I can­not say what ben­e­fit cops will derive from the ele­vat­ed threat lev­els, what I can say is I’m appalled that cops are now cow­er­ing in fear of being slaugh­tered in front of their fam­i­lies because of the war waged on them by one Mulatto
 woman from uptown St Andrew.

Jamaicans for Justice Head Carolyn Gomes :

It is a damn shame when we as Jamaicans live to see the day our coun­try is forced to the brink of col­lapse and ruin, by an inept and cor­rupt Government, which gives tac­it sup­port to crim­i­nal ele­ments, who ruth­less­ly mur­der police offi­cers on and off the job.

I am par­tic­u­lar­ly appalled at the Police Department, that it has allowed vice, to reduce it to a paper tiger.

The Jamaican pub­lic has allowed itself to be brain-washed by elit­ist pedi­atric Doctor Carolyn Gomes and oth­ers, into believ­ing that our coun­try is a first world coun­try, that crim­i­nals should be treat­ed with kids gloves. First of all Gomes is a Doctor, I have no idea where she stud­ied laws or police pro­ce­dures, to be dic­tat­ing pol­i­cy to police , but that“s anoth­er sub­ject for anoth­er day.

Elitist present them­selves as legit­i­mate human rights agen­cies, they fool the pub­lic into believ­ing that Jamaican crim­i­nals can be reha­bil­i­tat­ed by just ignor­ing the mur­der rape and oth­er vis­cous crimes they unleash on soci­ety. Gomes is not alone there are numer­ous ele­ments with­in the coun­try who are ben­e­fit­ing, and( eat­ing a food) from crime.

The truth is that Jamaican Criminals have nev­er been ordi­nary run of the mill crim­i­nals, from Three Finger Jack , to Sandokan ‚Natty- Morgan , Rigen, Bucky-Marshall , Tony Brown and George Flash, Copper, Burry-Boy, Chubby Dread, Jim Brown, and the list goes on and on, these crim­i­nals were hard­ened mon­sters who deserved noth­ing but the ulti­mate justice .

Be not fooled ‚the present sit­u­a­tion in our coun­try must be con­tained and elim­i­nat­ed, Police offi­cers are involved in seri­ous crim­i­nal activ­i­ties and that com­pli­cates the prob­lem, but it does not ren­der it unsolvable.

As I read the Commissioner’s emp­ty words my blood boils, they have shack­led name brand cops who know how to get things done , Laing, Ford, Dadrick Henry, Parra Campbell, and all the great sol­diers of urban polic­ing, yes we know how to find them and we know how to bring jus­tice to them. The Courts could nev­er be trust­ed to do jus­tice, they cer­tain­ly can­not be trust­ed today.

The Jamaica Observer report­ed today that the same gun which killed Assistant Commissioner Gilbert Kameka almost six years ago was the same gun which killed Deputy Superintendent Denzil Boyd,

Yester­day, a high­ly placed police source told the Observer that the sus­pects are linked to the dead­ly Klansman gang in Spanish Town and have ties to a tough Corporate Area neigh­bor­hood off Spanish Town Road. The police source also said that bal­lis­tic reports indi­cat­ed that the weapon used to kill Boyd was also the one used to slay Kameka at a premis­es in Irish Town, St Andrew on November 29, 2007. Kameka was report­ed­ly vis­it­ing 18-year-old Tina-Gaye McGowan when he was attacked and shot. Read more: 

The police must adopt a new approach to secure the coun­try, and in the process their own lives.

(1) Create a grid sys­tem, which locks down and encir­cles neigh­bor­hoods when crim­i­nals strike, then close the cir­cle until they find the perpetrator/​s.

(2) Carry out their duties to the fullest extent of the law pos­si­ble with­out fear or favor, mal­ice or ill will.

(3) Remove cops from Police Stations and place them in strate­gic loca­tions, mobile ready and equipped to han­dle any and all sit­u­a­tions. Only a skele­ton staff should be left to man stations.

(4) Device strate­gies to make sure that when a cop is killed, not even the killers moth­er will shel­ter him. Lean hard, very hard on every­one and do not rest until they give up the suspect.

(5) Do a bet­ter job con­duct­ing inves­ti­ga­tions, know crim­i­nals , where they live, know their moth­er, and most of all know the bitch­es who they sleep with, make their lives so mis­er­able they have nowhere to hide.

(6) Make sure inves­ti­ga­tions are done pro­fes­sion­al­ly and thor­ough­ly to ensue that those charged will be convicted.

(7) Make sure those who refuse to be tak­en alive are sum­mar­i­ly and expe­di­tious­ly dealt with accord­ing to law.

Jamaica is a small coun­try with less than 3 mil­lion peo­ple, this police force must stop being the Barney Fyffe of Police Departments.