Clueless Montague Responds Weakly To Soldiers Pointed Concern..

A young mem­ber of the Jamaica Defence Force told Robert Montague the Minister of National Security , if he should take on a gun­man who threat­ens him with a weapon he will have to face INDECOM with attor­neys for up to four years.

Montague said the mat­ter was brought into focus last night as he gave a moti­va­tion­al talk to a group of sol­diers head­ing to St. James to help con­tain crime there, accord­ing to Jamaican media. It’s impor­tant to under­stand the con­text in which the sol­dier made his views known to the minister.
The Island is awash in crime , mur­der is on a con­stant north­ward spi­ral and author­i­ties have not demon­strat­ed they pos­sess the balls to do what is nec­es­sary to fix the problem.
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Responding to the sol­dier’s com­ment the clue­less Montague respond­ed Quote:
“I am one who is a sup­port­er of INDECOM, I am one who believes that we still can work hard­er to get the police fatal shoot­ings down, but there comes a time when the cir­cum­stances dic­tate: when the State is threat­ened, the State has to respond in like manner.”

Many of my PNP read­ers will sali­vate at the fact that I refer to Montague as clue­less. The Laborites will do what they always do cas­ti­gate and label me a PNP shill, as if I care.
Montague showed utter igno­rance of what polic­ing entails in respond­ing to the sol­dier’s con­cern by argu­ing that when the state is threat­ened it has to respond in like manner.

Why Would Jamaica’s Security Forces Stick Their Necks Out .….….…

Each and every mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces have a respon­si­bil­i­ty over and above all else to pro­tect their own lives. They owe it to them­selves and their fam­i­lies to return home after every shift.
Even though they oper­ate as agents of the state, their bod­ies are not the prop­er­ty of the state. An attack on any of them must be seen as an attack on the state, but over and above that each attack on a mem­ber of the secu­ri­ty forces is an indi­vid­ual attack which must be dealt with individually.
Use of force has to be weighed by each offi­cer so forced . It must com­port with Jamaican law and should also square with that offi­cers moral com­pass. Use of force must be with­in the remit of the indi­vid­ual offi­cer which is enshrined in Jamaican law and the JCF’s use of force policy.
That is why the col­lec­tive label­ing of all police shoot­ings as extra judi­cial killings, is lan­guage of crim­i­nals and their sup­port­ers and not that of intel­li­gent informed people.
As the author­i­ties dither and con­tin­ue the embrace of pre­ten­tious pos­tures and poli­cies of advanced soci­eties the bul­let rid­dled bod­ies con­tin­ue to pile up.

WAR ON JAMAICAN POLICE FOR DOING THEIR JOBS:

Remarkably, it took a sol­dier, and a young one at that, to artic­u­late what most past and present cops and many well think­ing Jamaicans already knew . That the INDECOM law is a shack­le and a crime enhance­ment law.
This writer have been sound­ing that alarm since it’s inception.
Ironically it is not the mem­bers of the Jamaica Defense Force which faces and deals with the brunt of the crime and the resul­tant dan­ger which comes from enforc­ing the laws it is the police department.
Yet the incom­pe­tent posers who make up the hier­ar­chy of the police force are silent . Silent as Terrence Williams uses the media as a whore seek­ing to extract all she can from a com­pli­ant John. Williams uses the media to under­mine the police depart­ment and the rule of law, in the process empow­er­ing the crim­i­nal under­world and cre­at­ing a fer­tile breed­ing ground for young criminals.

This writer is not opposed to police over­sight. This medi­um was cre­at­ed to pass on what I learned as a police offi­cer so that peo­ple may under­stand their respon­si­bil­i­ties in society.
It was designed to speak out against crime and injus­tice wher­ev­er I see it. Regardless of the offend­er’s sta­tus or station.
What I do under­stand how­ev­er, is that when the laws are slant­ed in sup­port of crim­i­nals, when those in posi­tions of pow­er and influ­ence use those posi­tions to fur­ther the cause of crim­i­nal­i­ty and may­hem we have a problem.
It demon­strates that as a nation Jamaica has a seri­ous crime prob­lem which will only be fixed by peo­ple with balls and determination.
Thus far I have not seen that kind of lead­er­ship in our country.