The Supreme court on Monday ruled for an Arizona police offi­cer who shot a woman out­side her home in Tuscon.

The court’s deci­sion was unsigned and issued with­out full brief­ing and oral argu­ments, and an indi­ca­tion the major­i­ty found the case to be easy.

In an impas­sioned dis­sent jus­tice, Sonia Sotomayer said the major­i­ty had gone bad­ly astray.
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rom time to time I have touched on this sub­ject as more and more evi­dence sur­faces which reveals the gap­ing holes in one of the most basic func­tions police offi­cers are tasked with car­ry­ing out.
That task is the func­tion of effect­ing an arrest in a time­ly fash­ion using the most effec­tive means avail­able to the office/​s.

As a for­mer offi­cer of the JCF myself, I found the train­ing of recruits at the Academy woe­ful­ly inad­e­quate as far back as in the 80’s. Juxtapose that with what offi­cers are required to do in the field and the dis­par­i­ty is glar­ing. This is not just on the issue of effect­ing arrests but in oth­er crit­i­cal areas, young offi­cers are almost always left unsure of how to act and what to do when real life sit­u­a­tions present them­selves and they find that their train­ing did not address the how and when of that situation.

Make The Damn Arrest With Authority.….

The train­ing may have evolved and grown to some minute degree but far too much time is wast­ed on drills and forms which are more befit­ting of banana republics than a mod­ern police depart­ment train­ing facility.
Take away the drill and cer­e­mo­ni­al non­sense and teach recruits how to effect arrests, how to deal with hostage sit­u­a­tions, teach them how to res­cue drown­ing cit­i­zens, teach them how to han­dle ter­ror threats.

If you have to drill, (a)drill down on crowd con­trol, (2)Drill down on how to safe­ly and effec­tive­ly do a traf­fic stop, clear­ly offi­cers have no clue how to safe­ly exe­cute traf­fic stops. ©Teach them how to do pit-stops, there is so much that is not being taught to our police offi­cers it makes it lit­er­al­ly impos­si­ble for these young men and women to do a good and pro­fes­sion­al job.

THE UNENVIABLE TASK OF ARRESTING A SUBJECT
Police offi­cers are tasked with the unen­vi­able job of tak­ing sus­pects who have bro­ken our laws into custody.
On every occa­sion that an offi­cer sees an offense being com­mit­ted or receives a report from some­one else about an offense com­mit­ted that offi­cer is in a lose-lose situation.

(a)I will begin by address­ing those per­sons who believe that offi­cers who effect arrests may be char­ac­ter­ized as overzeal­ous. This ridicu­lous pos­ture would be laughed at in every sit­u­a­tion in which an offi­cer tries to arrests some­one who breaks the laws.
If an offi­cer decides to give some­one a break after he wit­ness­es a minor infrac­tion, (not a felony) it is his/​her right to do so.
If the same Officer decides against giv­ing that same offend­er a break, that is (not overzeal­ous­ness) it is his or her right not to do so.

To the best of my knowl­edge, no offi­cer gets spe­cial pay for effect­ing arrests, that is not how it works, even in sit­u­a­tions where offi­cers do very well work­ing overtime.
On every occa­sion that an offi­cer decides to effect an arrest, he sets him/​herself up to be crit­i­cized for the way the arrest is executed.
If he/​she decides against the arrest he/​she places him/​herself in dire jeop­ardy of fail­ing to car­ry out the dic­tates of the office he or she holds.

(b)Arrests are ugly when a per­son decides to resist. Police detrac­tors are quick to point to the ugli­ness of vio­lent arrests as if good police offi­cers chose to be vio­lent with peo­ple they are about to arrest.
The per­son being arrest­ed decides how that arrest is going to go down even how it will end. There is no law­ful argu­ment to be made for resist­ing offi­cers when one is told he/​she is under arrest. (That goes for sit­u­a­tions in which the arrestee is being wrong­ful­ly arrested)
There are carve­outs in the law which gives cit­i­zens recourse in our courts if they are wrong­ful­ly arrested.
Arrests become expo­nen­tial­ly more dif­fi­cult in sit­u­a­tions in which there are bystanders active­ly effec­tu­at­ing the escape of the offender.
It becomes almost an exer­cise in futil­i­ty when there are peo­ple active­ly assist­ing the offend­er to evade arrest rather than help­ing offi­cers to make the arrest.

©Most arrests in Jamaica has to hap­pen with a cer­tain degree of force, because of the envi­ron­ments of hos­til­i­ty and law­less­ness per­va­sive in the coun­try. This has become more per­va­sive in recent times for a con­flu­ence of rea­sons. Many have become more bel­liger­ent and defi­ant, some are oper­at­ing on the mis­guid­ed notion that the INDECOM act pro­tects them from being arrest­ed or gives them the pow­er to fight with officers.
Officers improp­er­ly trained and unsure of their pow­ers add fuel to this fire which inex­orably will lead to death before offend­ers real­ize the dan­ger in what they are doing.
God for­bid that the Ministry of National Security, the Justice Ministry or the JCF lead­er­ship would edu­cate the pub­lic about this issue.
The Justice Ministry is more focused on pro­tect­ing the rights of crim­i­nals than uphold­ing and enhanc­ing the rule of Law under Delroy Chuck.

(d) If there is more than one offi­cer at a scene where a sus­pect is to be arrest­ed both offi­cers must be on the same wave­length as to when to step in and make the arrest.
It must be assumed at all times that the sus­pect will resist, offi­cers attuned to their jobs can pick this up imme­di­ate­ly after telling the sub­ject he/​she is under arrest so both or all three offi­cers must move quick­ly to arrest the suspect.

(e) Speed is a crit­i­cal friend of the police when mak­ing arrests, two or three offi­cers must simul­ta­ne­ous­ly grab a bel­liger­ent strug­gling sub­ject take him/​her to the ground and cuff his/​her hands behind his/​her back.
In a sit­u­a­tion in which there are two offi­cers, both offi­cers must take down the fight­ing sub­ject and as quick­ly as pos­si­ble cuff the subject.
If there are bystanders get­ting too close there must be loud bark­ing orders com­mand­ing them to step back.
It is a mat­ter of life and death that offi­cers have this safe­ty zones around them as they work to arrest a bel­liger­ent subject.

(f) After the ini­tial sub­ject is hand­cuffed, offi­cers must grab any offend­er who vio­lat­ed their order to step away and place them under arrest.
Officers are empow­ered to use appro­pri­ate force to ensure their own safe­ty are guar­an­teed, they should set an exam­ple that they are not going to stand for the behav­ior we are wit­ness­ing on our streets.

(g) Removing arrest­ed sus­pects from the scene of the arrest is crit­i­cal for con­trol. Officers should endeav­or to be quick, decid­ed, pro­fes­sion­al, and sure of what they are doing.
Bystanders who would be inclined to inter­fere in arrests also observe the offi­cers involved in the process, they do not inter­fere in sit­u­a­tions in which deci­sive, no-non­sense offi­cers are operating.
Offenders(usually male) who shout out instruc­tions to oth­ers to fight offi­cers and demand that oth­ers help in the release of the per­sons being arrest­ed usu­al­ly do so from behind front-line obstructionists.
They must be force­ful­ly brought under arrest swift­ly and deci­sive­ly. These actions send an unequiv­o­cal mes­sage that this kind of behav­ior will not be tolerated.

The police high com­mand con­tin­ues to brag about its train­ing though clear­ly its train­ing needs to be thrown out and a train­ing pro­gram adopt­ed which reflects the chal­lenges offi­cers face.
The changes being made today, includ­ing the change at the top in which a non-police com­mis­sion­er is foist­ed on offi­cers are made against the police, not for the police.
It is not the first time it has been done, but we lose sight of the real­i­ty if we ignore the inep­ti­tude of the high com­mand to effec­tu­ate prac­ti­cal com­mon sense approach­es which made the inter­lop­ing pos­si­ble in the first place.

For most of the thou­sands of rank and file offi­cers of the JCF who have the option to leave the depart­ment I would humbly sug­gest that you find alter­na­tive employment.
Simply put, many Jamaicans are inher­ent­ly cor­rupt anti-law enforce­ment peo­ple, Transparency International year­ly report­ing gives a rea­son­able assess­ment of the true numer­i­cal depth of that corruption.

To oth­ers who do not have the means to leave study up on your laws and police duties. Use the laws to your advan­tage, do the job and do it well.
If their crim­i­nal enhance­ment agency INDECOM charge you when you car­ry out your sworn func­tion fight them to the privy coun­cil, you will win.
When you win sue for hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars, you will win.

or eight long years, this rather small pub­li­ca­tion stood like a flick­er­ing light in a sea of dark­ness and brave­ly offered a glim­mer of light to the decent hard work­ing mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

In the inter­est of full dis­clo­sure I am a for­mer mem­ber and so my world­view is always going to be influ­enced by my 10-years expe­ri­ence serv­ing in the depart­ment, good and bad.

I am the first to con­fess that my impres­sion of the (JCF) lead­er­ship or lack there­of, sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact­ed my deci­sion to make an ear­ly exit from the agency.
However, it was nev­er my opin­ion that the depart­ment did not play a sig­nif­i­cant part in nation build­ing, and must con­tin­ue to do so.
I was also unique­ly mind­ful that the neg­a­tives attrib­uted to the (JCF) were not unique to the agency, but to the extent that those attri­bu­tions were cor­rect, those attri­bu­tions should be laid at the feet of the leadership.

The (JCF) top man­age­ment struc­ture oper­at­ed not from an enlight­ened posi­tion of moti­va­tion and guid­ance prin­ci­ples but from an over­lord posi­tion of bul­ly­ing befit­ting despot­ic strong­men in banana republics.
That is not to say that there haven’t been real­ly fine lead­ers in the recent his­to­ry of the JCF, there has been. It isn’t total­ly a ques­tion of men its a ques­tion of the culture.

The for­gone was an acknowl­edg­ment that the Police depart­men­t’s lead­er­ship can in no way deny it’s part in the fail­ures of the JCF to the extent that fail­ures exist, and they do.
It is impor­tant that while the(JCF) take respon­si­bil­i­ty for its fail­ings that there is full recog­ni­tion that the depart­men­t’s fail­ures, to the extent they exist, are not fail­ings in a vacuum.
Neither can those fail­ings be cred­i­bly viewed out­side the larg­er sys­temic fail­ings all across the pub­lic sec­tor since the Independence dec­la­ra­tions of 1962.

Importantly as well, the (JCF) is one of the most vis­i­ble, most con­se­quen­tial agency of gov­ern­ment, as such, what­ev­er ails the depart­ment is going to be high­ly vis­i­ble, high­ly amplified.
It is the only agency of the gov­ern­ment which has sev­er­al lev­els and lay­ers of over­sight and account­abil­i­ty. The only agency which con­tin­ues to purge itself all toward a bet­ter self. So much over­sight that the Agency is now an inef­fec­tu­al top-heavy behe­moth ripe and ready for a final coup de grâce by the very same peo­ple who ensured its fail­ure through active mea­sures and neglect.

That coup de grâce is evi­denced by the con­tin­ued install­ments of out­side forces to head the depart­ment. By the Bill, they have to cod­i­fy into law their attempt to tear away the Major Organized Crime Anti Corruption Agency, a part of the depart­ment which has been work­ing well, and make it a sep­a­rate agency.
God for­bid that they would give the req­ui­site sup­port need­ed to the (JCF) to make it a mod­ern police agency with the pow­er and com­pe­tence to deliv­er the qual­i­ty ser­vice required of a 21^st-cen­tu­ry police department.

Instead, they have embarked on a process of demo­niz­ing the (JCF) remov­ing parts of which are work­ing and installing their upper St. Andrew cronies over those parts. This has been a sys­tem­at­ic approach of the two polit­i­cal par­ties which for all intents and pur­pos­es are cod­i­fy­ing the depart­men­t’s offi­cers into a set of sec­ond-class cit­i­zens who must die for their coun­try in a (JCF) that they are no longer good enough to lead.

It began when they removed the Passport pro­cess­ing from the purview of the police in order to reward their cronies. The next arm of the Police to go was the Firearm Licencing Authority(FLA). That depart­ment need­ed much fix­ing under the police but it has since become a colos­sal cesspool of graft, polit­i­cal malfea­sance and a true exam­ple of what polit­i­cal cor­rup­tion can do to a country.

The bill before the Parliament will effec­tive­ly sev­er (MOCA) from the (JCF), of course, they had already placed their cho­sen one, you guessed it from the paper mil­i­tary to head it even as the peo­ple doing the real grunge work there are .….….….….….….….….….….mem­bers of the hat­ed (JCF).
All of the peo­ple now head­ing the agen­cies which make up the nation­al secu­ri­ty land­scape are polit­i­cal place­hold­ers. Many are immi­nent­ly qual­i­fied to be sol­diers, lawyers, none have law enforce­ment bona fides. Terrence Williams, (INDECOM)Anthony Harriot,(PCA) Anthony Anderson,(JCF) Desmond T Edwards(MOCA) Shane Dalling(FLA).

The cir­cum­stan­tial evi­dence inher­ent in the place­ment of peo­ple who have zero law enforce­ment expe­ri­ence into crit­i­cal posi­tions usu­al­ly reserved for law enforce­ment exper­tise is proof enough of a sys­temic cam­paign to reduce mem­bers of the (JCF) to blue-col­lar roles in the nation­al secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus despite their aca­d­e­m­ic accomplishments.

Clearly what they have done is to move around their choice picks from role to role to role as they have done With Anthony Anderson the now com­mis­sion­er of police) from the (FLA) to cre­at­ing a new role, National secu­ri­ty advis­er which nev­er exist­ed before, just for him, and final­ly to place him in charge of the (JCF).
Anderson’s case is only one of the many exam­ples but you would have grasped my gist at this point, all of this has been hap­pen­ing while you weren’t even pay­ing attention.

It is absolute­ly crit­i­cal that mem­bers of the (JCF) are clear-eyed about what is hap­pen­ing to them and the agency they love. (1) Never be ashamed of your ser­vice to the coun­try, (assum­ing you are true to your oath of office. The fail­ings of the depart­ment where they exist, are not your bur­den to bear.
Those of us who served under­stand well that with­in the force of over 12,000 there are some bad actors but by and large the vast major­i­ty of offi­cers who step out each day to do the job are hon­est hard work­ing patriots.

Can the 63 who occu­py the low­er cham­bers on Duke street say the same? That’ss the real question.
Don’t be daz­zled by a few used cars and some motor­bikes, they do not belong to you. Surely you must see these things as essen­tial to the trade and should not be daz­zled by these shiny objects they place in front your eyes while they are empow­er­ing the rogue INDECOM to imprison you for doing exact­ly what you were sworn to do.

INDECOM’s dem­a­gog­ic tac­tics came straight from JFJ’s play­book….…

In a sim­ple word­ed well-rea­soned Article appear­ing in Sundays, Gleaner Dr.Garth Rattary evis­cer­at­ed the argu­ments of Terrence Willaims regard­ing Police fatal shootings.

The bril­liant sum­ma­tion of Dr.Rattary a sup­port­er of the INDECOM act and of the Police argued : If an offi­cer of the law feels threat­ened by any­one, even an unarmed indi­vid­ual, he or she will be with­in his or her rights to use dead­ly force because the aggres­sor may over­pow­er him or her and use the acquired dead­ly weapon to kill, as hap­pened on April 28, 2017, when a sus­pect wrest­ed the ser­vice pis­tol away from a police­man and killed him with it.
We need INDECOM to help pro­tect us and improve the police force. They can’t achieve their goal when they so often appear adver­sar­i­al towards the police.

Dr. Rattary went on to reveal. Many police tell me that they have noth­ing against INDECOM, but they have prob­lems with the man­ner­ism of the head of the orga­ni­za­tion and with the way that sta­tis­tics are pro­duced and made pub­lic.
The obser­va­tions and argu­ments of Dr. Garth Rattary sup­port and bears out 8‑years of work that I have per­son­al­ly pro­duced on this subject.
In fact, I have con­sis­tent­ly said that the secu­ri­ty forces and maybe the Police, in Particular, have no one to blame for the cre­ation of INDECOM and as such they must live with it.

My con­tention is and has always been that a law can­not be a tool of sup­pres­sion, or oppres­sion (which INDECOM) is, laws must be clear lines of demar­ca­tion for all parties.
Regardless of the num­ber of time that we make this argu­ment that we are not opposed to over­sight, there will be a bunch of igno­ra­mus­es who are intel­lec­tu­al­ly unable to move past their hatred for the police.
Unfortunately, this mind-numb­ing idio­cy is not con­fined to civil­ians but even some half-baked idiots who claimed they were police officers.

Terrence Williams con­tin­ues to manip­u­late and cher­ry-pick data to sup­port his point of view as it relates to police shootings.
Dr. Rattary bril­liant­ly spoke to Williams’ lack of verac­i­ty. “For my part, I feel that INDECOM sta­tis­tics regard­ing police killings need to con­comi­tant­ly reveal the num­ber of cit­i­zens killed by crim­i­nal ele­ments dur­ing that rel­e­vant peri­od. That would pro­vide a more bal­anced per­spec­tive on the lev­el of dead­ly crimes that require a response from the police”.

Criminal Rights Society:

Terrence Williams, in a March 12, 2018, Observer Article, talked about Police offi­cer shoot­ing and killing more sus­pects than they are wounding.
The idea that police offi­cers use of force which results in the death of the sus­pects. Seated at the table with Williams was Hamish Campbell the British import sec­ond­ed to Jamaica.
INDECOM claimed that there is an expec­ta­tion that casu­al­ties from secu­ri­ty force shoot­ing inci­dents would result in more indi­vid­u­als being wound­ed than killed.…
I am unsure where the data in sup­port of that claim comes from, or even whether there is any evi­dence in sup­port of such friv­o­lous claim com­ing from some­one who has no train­ing or expe­ri­ence to make those claims.
On the very face of it, the cher­ry-pick­ing of data is not only disin­gen­u­ous it is down­right dis​hon​est​.It goes to the lack of char­ac­ter of Williams and the senior lev­el man­age­ment of INDECOM.

Jamaica is one of the most mur­der­ous places on earth, last year alone 1616 homi­cides were report­ed to the police in a coun­try of 2.8 mil­lion peo­ple crammed togeth­er in a land space of 4411 square miles.
The sug­ges­tion that offi­cers are killing more than they are wound­ing gives the impres­sion that police chose to get into gun bat­tles in which they stand a 50 – 50 chance or worse to get killed.
It also sug­gests that offi­cers get to deter­mine whether they respond to shoot­ers when they do engage Jamaica’s mur­der­ous gangsters.

As some­one who has been shot in the line of duty, I can tell you that the dif­fer­ence between life and death is almost always a mat­ter of instinc­tive reflex.
The fun­da­men­tal dif­fer­ence between the fac­tu­al response to life and death sit­u­a­tions which war­rant lethal force and the dem­a­goguery prof­fered and pro­mul­gat­ed by INDECOM is simple.
(1) Police offi­cers are trained to shoot at the upper extrem­i­ties of a sus­pect if and when the neces­si­ty aris­es to use lethal or dead­ly force. Many offi­cers will go through their entire career and may nev­er have to fire a sin­gle shot at any­one. Conversely, those offi­cers who are pressed into dai­ly ser­vice in the most vio­lent neigh­bor­hoods are not only duty bound to respond to threats against their lives, that of their col­leagues and the cit­i­zens they are sworn to pro­tect, they get no joy at hav­ing to defend their lives for a few dollars.

Let Examine Shootouts

(2) The notion that police offi­cers have the option to shoot to injure some­one when the offi­cer’s life or that of anoth­er per­son is in per­il is fan­tas­tic and down­right unin­formed of what occurs in a shootout.
Police offi­cers do not get to say to a vio­lent heav­i­ly armed sus­pect,“wait, stand still so that I may shoot to injure you”. Said Dr. Rattary on that matter:

“INDECOM’s insin­u­a­tion that police should aim to wound and not kill dimin­ish­es its vaunt­ed objec­tiv­i­ty and author­i­ty and makes it seem total­ly unaware of the basic tenets of mor­tal engage­ment.”
“If an offi­cer of the law feels threat­ened by any­one, even an unarmed indi­vid­ual, he or she will be with­in his or her rights to use dead­ly force because the aggres­sor may over­pow­er him or her and use the acquired dead­ly weapon to kill, as hap­pened on April 28, 2017, when a sus­pect wrest­ed the ser­vice pis­tol away from a police­man and killed him with it”.

(JFJ) ENEMY OF THE STATE?

Terrence Williams has been using the play­book of Jamaicans for Justice the anti-police for­eign-fund­ed lob­by and its ini­tial con­venor Carolyn Gomes for years. Gomes was even­tu­al­ly exposed as a decep­tive con­niv­ing decep­tive fraud who pro­vid­ed explic­it, homo­sex­u­al mate­ri­als to vul­ner­a­ble under­age kids and was forced to step aside in dis­grace. As the leader of JFJ she mali­cious­ly and duplic­i­tous­ly used cher­ry-picked data in for­eign forums to smear the police.

Unders Gomes’ lead­er­ship JFJ ‘s prin­ci­pals would attend con­fer­ences in Washington DC and used cher­ry-picked data to report on what they char­ac­ter­ized as extra-judi­cial police killings.
The data was usu­al­ly raw num­bers of peo­ple killed in con­fronta­tions with the secu­ri­ty forces.
The data did not include the num­ber of Police offices killed or injured in those con­fronta­tions, did not include the num­ber of weapons recov­ered from those encoun­ters, did not include the inher­ent vio­lence in the gang mem­bers who engage law enforce­ment, did not include the num­ber of inno­cent Jamaicans killed with­in the peri­ods of their reporting.

Under Carolyn Gomes’ instruc­tions, the raw num­ber of those killed were lift­ed and used to make their argu­ment for extra­ju­di­cial killings and alleged police mis­con­duct so they could get more mon­ey from her for­eign handlers.
From the moment INDECOM became a real­i­ty Terrence Williams shared stages with Gomes and oth­er crim­i­nal rights lob­by, the police object­ed on the grounds that Williams was lob­by­ing as JFJ was, which dis­qual­i­fies INDECOM and Terrence Williams as an impar­tial investigator.
The Bruce Golding Government did noth­ing to muz­zle Terrence Williams. This carte blanch to do as he please gave rise to spec­u­la­tion that the for­ma­tion and sub­se­quent word­ing of the act were dic­tat­ed elsewhere.

Terrence Williams has been play­ing from that play­book ever since and it needs to come to an end if our coun­try is to have reli­able objec­tive over­sight of agen­cies of the state and a soci­ety which empow­ers its offi­cers to go after dan­ger­ous criminals.
Jamaica will con­tin­ue to pay a very high price in blood because its lead­ers have mort­gaged out our sov­er­eign­ty in order to be able to obtain loans and grants.
The Appellate court has ruled that INDECOM has no pow­er to effect arrests. That has been my per­son­al con­tention for the 8‑years that this destruc­tive law has been in effect. Jamaica has tal­ent­ed Lawyers, Jamaica has 63 mem­bers of Parliament some of whom are lawyers, not one of the 63 frauds have ever stood up in sup­port of the Police.
Now that the courts have spo­ken not a sin­gle one of the 63 retards have stood up in defense of the Police department.
What a rep­re­hen­si­ble bunch of crim­i­nal sup­port­ing imbe­ciles? In no oth­er coun­try on earth would you see this except Jamaica.

Terrence Williams knows quite well that nei­ther the JLP nor the PNP will move to change any­thing fun­da­men­tal in the act. After all almost half of INDECOM’s bud­get comes from dark monies com­ing in from overseas.
The most impor­tant take­away, how­ev­er, is that the fun­ders of INDECOM would not tol­er­ate an INDECOM in their coun­try. They pay homage to their law enforce­ment agen­cies every chance they get.
They are cru­cial­ly aware that if they can keep Jamaica impov­er­ished they can keep her depen­dent on their loans. That depen­den­cy is a sure­ty in a vio­lent crime-rid­den soci­ety like Jamaica.

Contributor Chris Porter

To Miss Paula Llewelyn:

Please issue war­rants of arrest for Terrence Williams et al imme­di­ate­ly! I am ask­ing Miss. Paula Llewellyn, the Director Of Public Prosecutions to issue a/​several war­rants of arrest for Mr. Terrence Williams and mem­bers of Indecom who have arrest­ed, and charged any mem­bers of the Jamaican Constabulary Force for any offens­es that they did not wit­ness to be a charge for:

Impersonating a Police Officer. (2) False Imprisonment and oth­er charges that can be levied against all of them INDECOM prin­ci­pals. The Jamaican Police are the most hat­ed gov­ern­ment work­ers in Jamaica, yet it is their job to pro­tect the peo­ple of Jamaica? But who is pro­tect­ing or look­ing out for their wel­fare and their rights to lib­er­ty, free­dom, and happiness?

Not a sin­gle per­son with pow­er, influ­ence, or for­ti­tude. the Prime Minister of Jamaica, St. Andrew Holiness [sic] and the Opposition Leader Dr. Peter Phillips, silence on the mat­ter regard­ing the recent INDECOM rul­ing are resound­ing, unam­bigu­ous, and com­plic­it with “Terrence Williams behav­ior at “INDECOM”. Williams actions have been embar­rass­ing, demor­al­iz­ing, and belit­tling to the men and women of the Jamaican Constabulary Force.

Where is the con­dem­na­tion from you guys? The agency was oper­at­ing as “pat­ty-shop” with its own rule and oper­at­ing out­side the purviews of the laws of Jamaica. Why not fire Terrence Williams for mis­lead­ing all of you at par­lia­ment? The man is illit­er­ate and dumb like a stone. He is a media whore which makes an idiot! It seems like the polit­i­cal lead­ers in Jamaica are illit­er­ate, inept, and igno­rant because they do not know what was in the INDECOM Act and Terrence Williams him­self can read, but do not under­stand what he has been reading.

As young who was born at 38 Asquith Street Jones Town, Kingston 12. My birth cer­tifi­cate let­ter starts with BM because I was born at home, not Jubilee Hospital; and a for­mer mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force. I know that a major­i­ty of your sup­port­ers are crim­i­nals, crim­i­nal bene­fac­tors, enablers, sup­port­ers, and lovers of criminality.

I don’t expect any bet­ter from both of you or mem­bers of your polit­i­cal par­ties (PNP & JLP). My par­ents told me grow­ing up that the politi­cians are our biggest ene­mies because they are the ones who have to feed the nar­ra­tive to the peo­ple to hate the police and that all of their prob­lems are because of them. It is going one week since the Jamaican Courts have ruled that INDECOM have no pow­ers of arrest, to arrest and charge or pros­e­cute any mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force.

To date, not a sin­gle mem­ber of par­lia­ment or care­tak­er came out in sup­port of the police or have pub­licly called for the arrest of the ego­tist, char­la­tan, con­man Terrence Williams.
Where are the law-abid­ing cit­i­zens in Jamaica who have mon­ey, influ­ence, and social stand­ings? Why the silence? Is it that because your friends are in the crime busi­ness and mak­ing big bucks? In Jamaica, all the politi­cians includ­ing the Prime Minister are crim­i­nal enablers, lovers, and supporters.

Imagine there are six­ty-three mem­bers of par­lia­ment, to date, not one politi­cian or wannabe politi­cians made a pub­lic state­ment sup­port­ing the mem­bers of the police force by call­ing for the arrest of Terrence Williams for arrest­ing and charg­ing the police offi­cers with­out any law­ful authority.
The idi­ot­ic politi­cians in Jamaica are the ones who are respon­si­ble for the crimes that are com­mit­ted by these mur­der­ers because they have been pro­tect­ing them and beg­ging them to behave.

In what juris­dic­tion does gov­ern­ment beg crim­i­nals to behave? Only in the crim­i­nal’s par­adise Jamaica, and the “Jamaican University for International Criminals.” No won­der why Jamaica has the most depor­tees from the Caribbean from any coun­try around the world because they do not know how to behave due to the cul­tur­al rel­a­tivism that is embed­ded into their psy­che and they think that is how the oth­er coun­tries cit­i­zens behave.

Not know­ing that it is only in Jamaica such behav­ior is accept­able. Jamaica is going to pay dear­ly for cud­dling of the Jamaican crim­i­nals, and in about four years, it is going to be a failed state. The idiot Prime Minister is hav­ing press con­fer­ences with pub­lic offi­cials as if he is doing something!
Only the Americans do such press con­fer­ences when their mil­i­tary is over­seas fight­ing wars with mem­bers of the mil­i­tary upper echelon.

He is so pow­er hun­gry he is putting on a show that keeps flap­ping What kind of war is Jamaica fight­ing? The crim­i­nals are win­ning, so it is a waste of man­pow­er and who­ev­er is advis­ing these “boasie-slaves” in Jamaica how to get crime under con­trol are doing a very poor job! In ear­ly February 1989 is when Jamaican crim­i­nals were giv­en sta­tus in the coun­try when the late Michael Manley won the gen­er­al elec­tions. Only a fool would believe what the Prime Minister is doing is going to work. It won’t work one iota. Since May 2010, Jamaica has fall­en into the abyss when it comes to crim­i­nal­i­ty. There is no pro­tec­tion of the peo­ple by those in pow­er on the island with the excep­tion of those who are get­ting filthy rich off the carnage.

As a man who under­stands “macro­eco­nom­ics if some peo­ple with­in the Jamaican soci­ety weren’t ben­e­fit­ing from the car­nage, there would not be so much lob­by groups with­in gov­ern­ment and out­side of gov­ern­ment? Their actions show which oth­er enti­ties in Jamaica have been under sus­tained attack from the 1970’s until now. Only the police force! In the 1980’s the war against the police force was over because as a Jamaican I could walk from “Concrete Jungle” Scarface Pathyway, Arnette Gardens, Kingston 12 through Craig Town, Hannah Town all the way to down­town Kingston, not even a fly would both­er me.

The only time the police were able to oper­ate in a way that the crim­i­nals would live in fear was in the 1980’s. Yes, when the most hat­ed man who was Prime Minister Of Jamaica: Edward Seaga.
I am not a polit­i­cal activist, and I am not a fan of either par­ty (PNP or JLP) in Jamaica. Jamaican peo­ple do not know that their true ene­mies are the Jamaican politi­cians espe­cial­ly St. Andrew Holiness and the Jamaican Labor Party that have declared “War” against the Jamaican Constabulary Force for the extra­di­tion of their strong­man: Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to our shores.

The Jamaican Labor Party COULD NOT declare war on us, America, for extra­dit­ing their don, so they declared it on the Jamaican Constabulary Force and mem­bers of the police force by enact­ing a law name “INDECOM” to the force as a buffer between the police and the crim­i­nals. The only group that is win­ning the “War” is the crim­i­nals because they can kill with­out wor­ry­ing about reper­cus­sion from the police, the jus­tice sys­tem and account­ing for their actions. In America, we don’t play with mur­der­ers; we kill them one way or the other.

The Jamaican gov­ern­ment hatred for the police is affect­ing the pop­u­lace. So the Jamaican peo­ple must retal­i­ate against the gov­ern­ment of the day by demon­strat­ing, lob­by your politi­cians, or write let­ters to your rep­re­sen­ta­tives because they work for you and not the crim­i­nals who have their cell-phones and house num­bers. If the American President Donald Trump real­ized that the war against the police force is, in fact, a war against America, then heads will undoubt­ed­ly roll in Jamaica.

In the end, all the anti-police activists will be put out of work and eco­nom­ic boy­cott and finan­cial inves­ti­ga­tions against them. The courts have spo­ken, and we have read where the ego­ist, self-aggran­diz­ing, and boast­ful Terrence Williams said that he won the case in the courts, and he is hap­py that he is vin­di­cat­ed for doing his job.

Finally, those of us who can read, have deci­phered the oppo­site, so I don’t know which school or where he got his law degree from or did he BUY it because the man is dumb as a stone and should not be giv­en any job to inves­ti­gate or pros­e­cute anyone.
In light of the court’s rul­ing, as a for­mer mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force, I’m call­ing on Miss. Paula Llewellyn to issue sev­er­al war­rants to arrest Terrence Williams and mem­bers of “INDECOM” who have infringed, arrest­ed, and charged mem­bers of the Police force when he/​they knew for a fact that he had no pow­ers of arrest or persecution.

:Mister Chris Porter is a for­mer detec­tive Constable of the JCF, he is also a US mil­i­tary vet­er­an who has kept him­self abreast of law enforce­ment best prac­tices and is a vocal sup­port­er of the rule of law.
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From con­trib­u­tor Chris Porter.

As a for­mer mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force who was a Police Cadet and a Detective Constable, sta­tioned at Hunts Bay Police Station I do not sup­port, any out­sider to lead the Jamaican Constabulary Force, period!
I know that Mr. Anderson has a dirty lit­tle secret: Deep down he knows and feels like a com­plete fraud because he has no law enforce­ment expe­ri­ences or accom­plish­ments. His ele­va­tion is the result of serendip­i­tous luck, polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tion, and nepo­tism why he is giv­en a job that he is NOT qual­i­fied to do or fit to even sit in the chair.

There are sev­er­al mem­bers in the Jamaican Constabulary Force who are more edu­cat­ed than the cur­rent Prime Minister, Members of the Parliament, and Mr. Anthony Anderson.
How on God’s earth he is giv­en a job that he has no busi­ness, or expe­ri­ence doing at any stage of his life? The man, despite evi­dence that indi­cates he is skilled and quite suc­cess­ful in the Jamaican Defense Force, is fraud­u­lent. He was nev­er a police offi­cer, but a paper tiger in the army and a cof­fee boy for the Prime Minister.

Only in Jamaica, a sol­dier can be the Commissioner of Police. This is mad­ness he doesn’t have the req­ui­site skillset to be a police offi­cer because he has no cer­ti­fi­ca­tion as a “Law Enforcement Officer!”
As a Jamaican, and a for­mer mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force, I am appeal­ing, beseech­ing and ask­ing every mem­ber of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, not to sup­port or encour­age this man: Major Anthony Anderson.

The resis­tance must start as of March 19, 2018, work smarter, not hard­er! If he suc­ceeds on your dime, you guys can kiss that chair good­bye! Look what hap­pened the oth­er day when the same Prime Minister and his cronies tried to put the Chief Justice on pro­ba­tion? The judges knew that they were com­ing after the head judge’s chair and they called a meet­ing and locked down the courts in Jamaica.They sent a mes­sage to the polit­i­cal estab­lish­ment: If your friends want to be the Chief Justice of Jamaica, let he/​she go to law school, work in the deplorable con­di­tions, and wait your turn due to your qual­i­fi­ca­tion by expe­ri­ences (QBE).

That’s how the judge’s got the atten­tion of the Jamaican Labor Party gov­ern­ment, and they backed off…Do you think for a minute that the Judge’s didn’t hear the rumors that the Chair was going to be giv­en to one of their polit­i­cal hacks! Police offi­cers, it is time for you to unite against the sys­tem which is con­trolled by elect­ed crim­i­nals who have no love for the police and they have lots of friends who are mak­ing crazy mon­ey in the criminal’s under­world! If he, Mr. Anderson want­ed to be a police offi­cer he should have gone through Basic train­ing at the Jamaican Police Academy: go to class­rooms, learn about the laws, the pow­ers of arrest, grad­u­ate, and gained expe­ri­ence of being a police offi­cer in Jamaica.

I spent twen­ty-three months at the Jamaican Police Academy because I want­ed to be a police offi­cer. He is an appointee and, his place is not in our midst because he does not know the strug­gles of a police officer’s life. Mr. Anderson can­not empathize with us (Members of the Jamaican Constabulary Force). And his appoint­ment by the polit­i­cal class, elit­ists, and crim­i­nals in gov­ern­ment is a sig­nal to every mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force that you are NOT good enough to lead an orga­ni­za­tion that you have giv­en your all, most of your life to.

So, they are mak­ing sure that this chair is a reserve for their uptown friends and not the poor man’s chil­dren. And this is the way they are telling you to stay in your place, poor coun­try peo­ple chil­dren. Its incum­bent on every mem­ber to unite against this man and the sys­tem, because it is stack against all of you. It is a pity that no one would file an injunc­tion pre­vent­ing him from tak­ing the chair as the top cop.

The man has no qual­i­fi­ca­tions to be the Commissioner of Police, and should not be giv­en the job, But in Jamaica nepo­tism, crony­ism, and mal­adroit peo­ple are giv­en jobs that they have no busi­ness doing at all! If the pipes in your house are leak­ing and caus­ing flood­ing, do you hire a plumber or a bak­er? The bak­er bakes bread, and the plumber is trained to install and repair the pipe sys­tem for water to flow freely.

Finally, I am beseech­ing, appeal­ing and beg­ging every mem­ber of the Jamaican Constabulary Force: Gazetted offi­cers, to the rank and file, resist, do not sup­port, or wel­come this out­sider (Mr. Anderson) into our midst, he is NOT a police offi­cer; he is an impos­tor. To date has the polit­i­cal class ever installed one of our for­mer Commissioner of Police to be the head of the Jamaican Defense Force?

No! Work smart, not hard! Let him (Major Anderson) fail mis­er­ably like the oth­er two before. He is NOT a police offi­cer, but a wannabe police offi­cer who has no busi­ness being the Commissioner of Police of our pres­ti­gious organization!

Mister Porter is a for­mer Detective con­sta­ble in the JCF, he is also a US mil­i­tary vet­er­an with active duty expe­ri­ence. Mister Porter con­tin­ues to ral­ly around and avail him­self to law enforce­ment best prac­tices in our country.

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By Contributor Conrad Tucker
INDECOM HAS ITS EGO CHECKED.

Last Friday, the Appeals Court ruled that INDECOM does not have the right to arrest or charge police offi­cers. For cur­rent mem­bers of the JCF and for­mer offi­cers alike, this rul­ing is like a breath of fresh air. Since the incep­tion of the INDECOM Act, police offi­cers have com­plained that they have been treat­ed unfair­ly by its mem­bers. There are even reports that offi­cers were dis­armed in pub­lic and some­times bul­lied to give state­ments to its investigators.

The ram­i­fi­ca­tions of the Appeals Court’s rul­ing is vital for the future of INDECOM, but more impor­tant­ly for the cas­es pend­ing, and for oth­er cas­es where offi­cers have been con­vict­ed? Does this mean that those cas­es will be dis­missed and all the con­vic­tions over­turned? Does this mean INDECOM will cease and desist from inves­ti­gat­ing offi­cers and stop bring­ing charges against them? The Appeal Court’s rul­ing dis­tinct­ly states that they have no author­i­ty to car­ry out their man­date as stip­u­lat­ed by the cur­rent law.

However, they like any cit­i­zen can arrest any­one under Common Law. Does that mean they will arrest offi­cers under Common Law, to show that they still have the pow­er to car­ry out their man­date? Arresting offi­cers under Common Law would be con­trary to the INDECOM Act, as they are man­dat­ed to arrest offend­ing offi­cers not as a pri­vate cit­i­zen but as an offi­cer of the com­mis­sion, which the Appeals Court ruled against. Based on the rul­ing by the Appeals Court, INDECOM’s man­date is, in essence, lim­it­ed to being an over­sight body.

They should only be able to mon­i­tor or inves­ti­gate the actions of the police, but bring­ing charges should be under the purview of the DPP. So, what role would the DPP play in this saga? That is the answer I am eager­ly wait­ing to have. The Prime Minister at the last JLP annu­al gen­er­al meet­ing hint­ed at mak­ing changes to the INDECOM Act, because he felt that they are hold­ing offi­cers hostage and are neg­a­tive­ly impact­ing the morale of the men and women of the JCF. The con­sen­sus by many Jamaicans is that offi­cers are afraid of charges been brought against them by INDECOM, and so, they are reluc­tant to put their lives on the line to con­front dan­ger­ous criminals.

If this is true, and this writ­ers believes it is, then we have seen how embold­ened crim­i­nals have become. The blood­let­ting has con­tin­ued unabat­ed­ly through­out most of the island, because crim­i­nals are aware that offi­cers are not risk­ing their lives to com­bat them, thanks to INDECOM. There are numer­ous videos cir­cu­lat­ing on social media, show­ing offi­cers being assault­ed, ver­bal­ly abused, some­times left with their uni­forms torn and are ridiculed by these thugs, much to the delight of the peo­ple they risk their lives dai­ly to protect.

In many of these instances the offi­cer don’t even retal­i­ate fear­ing that if they do, INDECOM will come to inves­ti­gate and per­haps bring charges against them. As we know, cops are abhor­rent­ly under­paid in Jamaica, so most offi­cer can’t afford to hire a lawyer and that is a major fac­tor why they do not react to the assaults met­ed out on them. Maybe this is why The Prime Minister has promised to set up a fund to help offi­cers pay for legal fees after being charged by this pho­ny organization.

The com­ing days and months will be sig­nif­i­cant as we await INDECOM’s appeal to the Privy Council. But yes­ter­day’s rul­ing should sure­ly improve the morale of the men and women of the JCF, and is an impor­tant win not only for the offi­cers, but for all law-abid­ing peo­ple of Jamaica. The offi­cers will be more encour­aged to per­form their duties with­out the fear of being hunt­ed and charged by these zeal­ous pri­ma don­nas, whose sole pur­pos­es are to humil­i­ate the peo­ple who are pro­tect­ing them from crim­i­nals. Jamaica has myr­i­ads of eco­nom­ic and social issues that have plunged the coun­try into chaos, result­ing in a chron­ic prob­lem with crime.

Jamaica has the dubi­ous dis­tinc­tion of hav­ing one of the high­est homi­cide rates on the plan­et and def­i­nite­ly in the Western Hemisphere. However, the coun­try is still a vibrant democ­ra­cy and unlike some coun­tries that set up kan­ga­roo courts, which try and imprison their oppo­nents, Jamaicans of any stripe can go to court to seek jus­tice. This is exact­ly what tran­spired with mem­bers of the JCF, from gazetted offi­cers to District Constables chal­leng­ing the INDECOM Act and winning.