The much maligned and beleaguered Jamaica Constabulary force has been fighting through some of it’s most difficult times.
In recent weeks the JCF has suffered several attacks on it’s members in their own homes.
In fact in less that two weeks three officers have been shot in their homes.
Though this is not new it marks an escalation in the war being waged on the Island’s Law enforcement by the criminal underworld.
In recent days the police has withstood those assaults and have actually taken out the cop killer Marlon Duppy film Perry .
They have been involved in several shootings in which dangerous killers have been removed from the streets and have withstood ambushes.
Additionally, they have recovered several guns and numerous amounts of ammunition rendering the streets, highways and byways of the Island somewhat safer.
Caches of guns the police recover almost daily.
All of this has generated much positive press for the police but more importantly the chatter on social media has been changing.
The narrative have been much more supportive of the police of late and that terrifies some people who eat the flesh of dead cops and drink their blood..
If you are a criminal or you are in the business of demagoguery, lies and sensationalism against the police that is bad for business.
So what do you know, chief demagogue and media whore, the commissioner of the crime enhancement agency INDECOM , decided he wanted some of the spotlight.
Williams aided by his friends in the media was not about to allow the police a single moment of respite so he found a way to worm himself into the limelight.
Big Gleaner headline.
JCF Slowly Responding To INDECOM On Sanctions.
(INDECOM) Terrence Williams yesterday said that responses are slowly coming in from the hierarchy of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Police Service Commission a day after he informed Parliament that the leadership has failed to take action against 138 senior cops recommended for disciplinary sanctions.
The only trouble with this attempt to draw attention to himself, is that this was in relation to INDECOM’s April to June report to the parliament.
Terrence Williams aided by his loyal lieutenant[sic] British transplant Hamish Campbell said that the police have responded by letter in some cases saying that the department has decided not to act on some of the reports.
“We have received some letters updating us. Some of the letters are saying that they are going to conduct further investigations. Some are saying that too much time has passed and they are not going to take any further action or disciplinary proceedings, and some are saying that they agree with us.”
Williams said that while the law allows for the constabulary to explain to Parliament why no sanctions have been undertaken, no explanation has been tendered.
In other words not only have Terrence Williams decided to usurp the press the JCF is getting on it’s successes, he has decidedly taken on the role of lecturing the Parliament.
Remember that in cases where the police decide not to act on a recommendation of INDECOM, in the interest of transparency and accountability they are mandated to give reasons for their decision.
The Parliament have not issued a complaint or made any demand for additional responses from the police.
In fact it is within the prerogative of the police to make the determination whether Williams’ recommendations are acted upon as he suggest.
Upon making the recommendation Williams’ job is done.
Even as a female officer and her daughter were shot, their wounds still raw, the glory hunting, media whoring Terrence Williams had one intention.
Get the cameras on himself, how pathetic and insecure this little man must be?
Williams went on to rattle off numbers which points to increases in police fatal shootings. In the same breath he made no mention of the shootings in which officers are shot in their own homes.
Said Williams; ”
“Investigations by INDECOM show that a significant percentage of those shootings are not in accordance with eye-witness accounts provided. Of the 185 people who have either been shot and killed or shot and injured, 42 per cent of them did not have a firearm. A smaller number had other weapons like ice picks, stones, a piece of wood, and a number having a machete or knife.”
So though he has the power and the authority to prosecute if there is evidence of wrongdoing, and even though he clearly has no evidence which could potentially criminally indict officers who use lethal force in case where ice-picks and machetes are used, and even though we all know that the supposed witnesses are generally criminals themselves, Terrence Williams chose demagoguery.
And at a time when the police high command raised the threat level against it’s officers to severe.
Terrence Williams is a sick, demented narcissist who is hell bent on doing whatever he needs to do to remain relevant.
If Williams believes ice-picks and machetes pose no threat then he should do us a favor and take on the role of a police officer.
It would be a tremendous favor to our country and to human kind.
The nation should reject INDECOM in’it’s present form and should unequivocally reject the political plant Terrence Williams before he does more damage to our country.
I remember when Minister of National Security Dudley Thompson when everything failed gave Police and Soldiers orders, “Shoot them like Dogs” not that people were shooting dogs. The people who protect these criminals were deemed then just as Guilty as they benefited from Crime. The People of Jamaica, the Country will benefit as Jamaica become a nation where people are free to walk our streets visit our parks any time of day. The reality is no one under 30 years old knows what it is to walk at midnight from Harbor View Drive In to Duhaney Park, we must continue to support our the members of the Jamaica constabulary force, thanks for this article again good work.