How About Police Get Back To Doing Policing And Less Showboating For The Media?

According to local media reporting Jamaican police Investigators are busy, supposedly tracking down at least three persons they believe are behind extortion letters received by business owners in three parishes.

Leading the Investigation is Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifford Chambers who brags that crim­i­nals under­es­ti­mat­ed the lev­el of coöper­a­tion that exists between the police and the busi­ness community.
Chambers heads the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime (C‑TOC) division.
Said Chambers “Law enforce­ment is work­ing in a bet­ter part­ner­ship with busi­ness enti­ties, so the crim­i­nal under­world will real­ize that they are not cow­er­ing any­more.”
For the sake of Jamaica I pray there is nev­er a real ter­ror inci­dent which these peo­ple will be tasked with investigating.

Here’s the thing, all of what ACP Clifford Chambers say may very well be true, but one of the car­di­nal rule in con­duct­ing an inves­ti­ga­tion is silence.
How about not talk­ing about the fact that they have the let­ters, or even know there are letters?
The Assistant Commissioner claim he has infor­ma­tion who the per­pe­tra­tors are which makes me wonder.Why would you make your job harder. ?
Why place the lives of the poten­tial vic­tims and their fam­i­lies in dan­ger ?Why talk about an inves­ti­ga­tion which is still in it’s embry­on­ic stage ? http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​/​l​e​a​d​-​s​t​o​r​i​e​s​/​2​0​1​7​0​3​0​6​/​e​x​t​o​r​t​i​o​n​-​p​u​s​h​b​a​c​k​-​c​o​p​s​-​h​u​n​t​-​m​e​n​-​a​t​t​e​m​p​t​i​n​g​-​s​h​a​k​e​-​d​o​w​n​-​b​u​s​i​n​ess

How about con­duct­ing the Investigation ‚arrest and charge the per­pe­tra­tors, then have a press con­fer­ence with them in full view of the cam­eras ? That’s called Perp shaming !!!
If the Police love the idea of speak­ing in front of cam­eras why not wait until they have some­thing to crow about which does not jeop­ar­dize com­plainants lives
Talking about coöper­a­tion at this ear­ly stage serves no use­ful pur­pose. It endan­gers busi­ness own­ers. It send per­pe­tra­tors into hiding.
What could pos­si­bly be gained from this dis­clo­sure except to place the lives of busi­ness people/​complainants in dan­ger, and send­ing the per­pe­tra­tors into hiding?

How about Police get back to doing Policing and less show­boat­ing for the Media?
On a point of note, it’s remark­able that sim­ple mat­ters like these could become a major Investigation wor­thy of the office of an Assistant Commissioners of Police.
Back in my time one cor­po­ral and a con­sta­ble, or a sin­gle con­sta­ble would remove these crim­i­nals from the streets with­out any fanfare.
Oh how has time changed.……