Even To The End, Terrence Williams An Insufferable Narcissist…

From the moment that Terrence Williams was installed as the head of the neo­phyte agency INDECOM, he made it clear by his words and deeds, that among his oth­er neg­a­tives, he had an extreme­ly nar­cis­sis­tic trait.
Now, I do believe that we all have a cer­tain degree of nar­cis­sism in us, not sure where ambi­tion ends and nar­cis­sism begins.
However, as far as Terrence Williams is con­cerned, I am no psy­chol­o­gist, but I thought the nar­cis­sis­tic traits in the man were so obvi­ous, the cus­to­di­an in his office could fig­ure it out.
[Phychology Today] had this to say about [nar­cis­sism]: Narcissism does not nec­es­sar­i­ly rep­re­sent a sur­plus of self-esteem or of inse­cu­ri­ty; more accu­rate­ly, it encom­pass­es a hunger for appre­ci­a­tion or admi­ra­tion, a desire to be the cen­ter of atten­tion, and an expec­ta­tion of spe­cial treat­ment reflect­ing per­ceived high­er status. 

Terrence Williams was appoint­ed the very first head of the fledg­ling INDECOM that was first autho­rized in 2010. His man­date was to pro­vide inde­pen­dent over­sight of the JCF, JDF, & Corrections Departments.
This over­sight was bad­ly need­ed, not just because of the numer­ous charges of cor­rup­tion and crim­i­nal­i­ty lev­eled at the police in par­tic­u­lar, but because it was nec­es­sary to have an inde­pen­dent inves­tiga­tive ser­vice that would give cred­i­bil­i­ty to the good offi­cers.
Terrence Williams mis­un­der­stood his man­date and instead embarked on a rene­gade vendet­ta-laden mis­sion against the nation’s pre­em­i­nent law enforce­ment agency.
He showed up wher­ev­er there were press con­fer­ences giv­en by vir­u­lent­ly anti-police lob­by groups, and demon­strat­ed that there was no dif­fer­ence between their stance and his.

But as if asso­ci­at­ing with vir­u­lent anti-police groups and jostling for micro­phone time with them to demo­nize the secu­ri­ty forces was not enough, Terrence Williams picked fights with the Nation’s Director Of Public Prosecution, mak­ing scur­rilous claims that the [DPP] was not harsh enough on errant cops.
Not just that, Williams insin­u­at­ed that the DPP was sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly drag­ging her feet in pros­e­cut­ing cops.
The fact that (a) the DPP’s office strug­gles might­i­ly with staff short­ages and is del­uged with a sheer vol­ume of cas­es, & (b) the three ses­sions at the cir­cuit lev­el makes it impos­si­ble to clear enough cas­es from the court dock­ets as any­one would like, © cas­es get held up by both the defense and pros­e­cu­tion side, none of that mat­tered in Terrence Williams’ nar­ra­tive.
Terrence Williams went ahead and arrest­ed cops he said had run afoul of the laws, (good), only that he did not have the pow­er to do so, even though he demon­stra­bly knew he had no such pow­er giv­en to him under the Law.
When Terence Williams was rebuffed by the local Appeals court he peti­tioned the UK Privy Council for the pow­er to pros­e­cute cas­es against the police, even though he knew that the law gave him no such pow­er, he said as much when he declared that the Parliament promised it would bestow the pow­er on his agency at the next review.
Since Terrence Williams knew unequiv­o­cal­ly that he had no pow­er to arrest police offi­cers why would he pur­sue the mat­ter to the privy coun­cil to prove some­thing he and the world already knew?
Narcissism!

Terrence Williams fought with the Police, need­less­ly, he fought for pow­ers to search the JDF facil­i­ties at Up Park Camp, he fought to empow­er crim­i­nals in the pris­ons when they were appro­pri­ate­ly dealt with by staff.
He took the DPP to court. His actions were chal­lenged by police offi­cers who fought back and they won in the courts.
I could go on and on about the tenure of Terrence Williams but I do believe I have made my point.
Like his patron Carolyn Gomes was even­tu­al­ly exposed as a fraud, so too has Terrence Williams been exposed even­tu­al­ly for the Jamaican peo­ple to see.
Unfortunately for the nation, the social exper­i­ment that was Terrence Williams was a fatal one. It has thank­ful­ly come to an end, but not with­out an incal­cu­la­ble cost.
In a des­per­ate attempt to divert atten­tion from his long list of fail­ures, Terrence Williams points to few­er police shoot­ings as a met­ric of his suc­cess.
That tells us who Terrence Williams has been work­ing for.

The sad real­i­ty is that many cops laid down arms, many stopped car­ing, they were not about to engage the killers, they weren’t about to risk get­ting per­se­cut­ed for doing their jobs in one of the world’s most vio­lent places.
The flip side of that is that thou­sands of peo­ple died at the hands of mur­der­ous killers, who ought to have been in prison, or tak­en out.
That is the lega­cy of Terrence Williams.
Tragically, Terrence Williams barefaced­ly, or unashamed­ly, you decide, told local media that giv­en a chance he would change noth­ing.
Those are the clas­sic signs of a [nar­cis­sis­tic per­son­al­i­ty].
He lacks the most basic humil­i­ty to see where he went wrong, to say I am human, I made mis­takes.
It is for those rea­sons that I am glad to see the back of this incor­ri­gi­ble creature.

Mike Beckles is a for­mer police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer,
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