Disentization From The JCF

Writer: A serv­ing mem­ber of the JCF who shall remain anony­mous for obvi­ous reasons.

I am mere­ly offer­ing a few words of advice to Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), espe­cial­ly those with under five years remain­ing before their exit from the agency.
For those of you who’ve not seen any upward mobil­i­ty despite your years and even decades of hard work and ded­i­ca­tion, for those who feel left behind and neglected.
Those feel­ing as if you are not a part of the JCF, my advice is to you is to desen­si­tize and detach your­selves from the JCF.
Put your mind in a state that will pre­pare you for your exit.
Prepare your mind to join the pop­u­la­tion as a civil­ian to cope with the same issues fac­ing our reg­u­lar Jamaican broth­ers and sisters.

The force’s lead­er­ship is head­ed by a civil­ian Commissioner who is inca­pable of under­stand­ing or rec­og­niz­ing that the force was built on the idea that hard work would be rewarded.
We are now see­ing the oppo­site and the mar­gin­al­iza­tion of those who are over 35 years old.
It is now get­ting worse, now that the age has been reduced to under 25, under the guise of prepar­ing new lead­ers; lead­ers with­out the req­ui­site expe­ri­ence in the discipline.
These Leaders will now be trained by the Army, leav­ing one to won­der what type of Police Officers those will be?
It seems the hier­ar­chy led by Commish clue­less has not seen the mas­sive migra­tion of senior police personnel.

Editor’s note

A serv­ing mem­ber of the JCF sub­mit­ted the pre­vi­ous obser­va­tion; it high­lights some of the griev­ances that rank & file offi­cers have faced for decades.
The force’s morale seems to be suf­fer­ing as the gov­ern­ment is dead set on build­ing a sec­ond JDF with­in the JCF, one that is built on the lead­er­ship of senior offi­cers in the mold of mil­i­tary offi­cers with zero polic­ing knowl­edge and or acumen.
This writer has warned that this is not the way to go; regard­less of the edu­ca­tion­al qual­i­fi­ca­tion of a serv­ing mem­ber, that per­son should not be ele­vat­ed to any lead­er­ship posi­tion with­out the years of polic­ing skills required of a sea­soned officer.
The JCF is now top-heavy, with lead­ers who have no polic­ing skills or experience.
Jamaica does not need intel­lec­tu­als and aca­d­e­mics as police offi­cers, and in fact, nowhere does. Policing is a dif­fer­ent dis­ci­pline that requires a cer­tain type of ded­i­ca­tion and exper­tise, not degrees and braggadocio.