The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in Kingston has reportedly ruled that there will be no criminal charges proffered against Police officers who tussled with a Woman as they tried to arrest her.
The incident occurred in the Gordon Town area of rural St Andrew in late July.
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Regardless of what necessitated the arrest, regardless of what precipitated the tussle, what was evident in the video is a woman violently attacking and fighting with police officers who lawfully told her she was under arrest,.
That is what’s important.
The police have a duty to present to a court of law , evidence beyond a reasonable to substantiate an arrests.
If the person arrested is exonerated by a court of law, that person has remedies under the law to sue for damages.
Citizens who are told by the police they are under arrest must comply with officers commands without fighting or otherwise impeding that arrest.
The criminal justice system in Jamaica is so criminal friendly that a police officer was recently convicted for shooting a taxi operator who attacked him in uniform , knocked him to the ground and struggled with him.
Faced with the likelihood of losing his weapon and his life he shot the assailant.
The police officer was convicted in the Jamaican courts.
The media not to be outdone continued to run with the brain-dead idiocy that the police were caught tussling with a woman they wanted to arrest.
What do these idiots mean caught? When was subduing a violent subject become unlawful?
The lap-dog police senior officers including the pathetic commissioner did not stand up for the officers who were doing what they were trained to do.
If the officers are to be chastised, it should be for not taking command of the woman more decidedly, and arresting those on the sidelines who were interfering in the process.
The high command through the Inspectorate branch instead, betrayed the officers by submitting a file to the DPP upon which that office ruled that there were no breaches in law on the part of the officers.
This despite the fact that INDECOM the police persecution Agency shockingly stated through it’s deputy Commissioner Hamish Campbell that the officers did their best to restrain her and were extremely patient .
Notwithstanding the Inspectorate is not done , it has continued it’s witch-hunt of these officers.
I am particularly interested in understanding from the do nothing Inspectorate Branch what exactly are officers supposed to do when a subject refuses to submit to arrest?
I call on the lackey Commissioner of Police to issue a standing order to officers who are confronted with belligerent , violent offenders that they should stand down.
The law gives police officers across the globe, Jamaica being no exception, the power and the right to use all necessary force to effect an arrest.
By God , what kind of message are they sending when police officers are not even allowed to effect simple arrests?
Since the international protocol of using force to lawfully effect arrests no longer apply in Jamaica, it is important that the chief constable Carl Williams inform the officers under his command to stand down when those they want to arrest decide they do not wish to be arrested.
One village lawyer actually sought to criticize me in a lengthy social media post at the time I came out in support of the officers. His stupid contention was that she had a right to resist arrest because of difficulties in securing bail and a raft of other issues which has nothing to do with police.
This is the level of lunacy and idiocy which informs debates in the Jamaican space.
If you are afraid you won’t be getting bail stay out of trouble.
Ironically Jamaica has one of the most lax bail law, and a criminal justice system dominated by criminal loving judges who summarily release viscous murderers back onto the streets as soon as they are arrested. These viscous killers promptly kill again and again and again without consequence.
In some case up to five known times and are granted bail regardless.
Commissioner Carl Williams has become a disgrace. Staying on as commissioner does a horrible dishonor to policing and a disservice to officers under his command.
Commissioner Williams, if you cannot stand up and defend your officers when they go over and above to do the right thing of what use are you?
Why would these officers actions even be questioned in the first place?
Jamaica is a place with an extremely high crime rate . No amount of spinning or bullshitting will change that fact.
When foreign countries have to send their own officers to observe court proceedings in cases where extradition requests are in order, it is a searing indictment on the state of the criminal justice system on the Island.
It means they have no confidence in the system to deliver justice to criminals. Lets stop with the patriotic bullshit and the rationalization , they know and believe, that the system is one which supports criminality.
As I have said this justice system is a sham. It supports criminals and demonizes police. Lets cut to the chase, Jamaica’s criminal justice system means exactly that.
It is a justice system which favors coddles and encourages crime.
I stand with the officers in this case . For the record I would not be as charitable as they were .
That’s the bottom line.
Step aside Commissioner Williams you are not a leader…