Responding to the killing of two police officers as they played a game of dominoes at Poor-Man’s-Corner St Thomas United States Ambassador to Jamaica said this.
“In this season of peace and togetherness, it is heartbreaking to see these and other senseless murders. To the members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and other law enforcement officers across this island who risk your own safety to protect our lives I salute you. “I urge you to continue to conduct your duties honorably and professionally without fear or favor,” Moreno said in a release. “Too many times this year we have mourned the loss of officers of the law and citizens murdered by violent criminals. I want to echo the words of Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams: ‘As a nation, we must band together to preserve the rule of law and the safety, security, and human rights of every Jamaican.’ The United States will stand firmly with the police and people of Jamaica to stem this bloodshed,”.
This is not the first time Moreno has spoken out stridently at the killing of the Island’s police officers . At the brutal slaying of constable Crystal Thomas Moreno spoke out harshly against the level of criminality and the need to support the efforts of law enforcement on the Island.
US GOVT STANDS WITH JAMAICAN POLICE BUT DOES THE JAMAICAN GOVT?
One hearing of the slaughter of the officers I was gripped with rage, it was the very first time in the 24 years since I left law enforcement that I wished I was able to pull on a pair of comfortable jeans , lace up my combat-boots, double check my Browning and ensure my two extended clips are in good working order , grab my M16 assault rifle with the retractable stock, my radio and see who was willing to come with me.
There is so much to be said about the state of affairs in Jamaica that it makes one feel almost resigned to the fact that our beautiful country is pretty much already a failed state.
I realized if you wear a certain fragrance after a while you don’t smell it anymore . The same is true for many in Jamaica who smile and tell you just how wonderful things are, they simply cannot smell the shit anymore.
As is customary the killing of police offices never gets a mention from the nations highest political office, nor from the representative of the British Monarch.
To some extent mentioning the fact that the Prime Minister have not a single word of condemnation for the brutal slaying of officers gives the impression that I believe the occupant of that office have the mental capacity to understand the implications of these acts so I won’s say more about that.
As we speak Police Officers are engaged in protecting the life of that imbecile and they are doing so over and above that which is required. Many are gophers and in most cases yard boys. Irrespective of the slight and disrespect they will dutifully continue to place their lives on the line to protect and defend.
I’ll not speak to that either save and except to say in the struggle for justice and equality we will never be able to untangle some from the degrading confines of the slave plantation.
I would be remiss if I did not address the lax mentality of the officers which resulted in their deaths. Of course everyone should be able to sit in their community with friends and enjoy a friendly game of dominoes without fear of dying in a hail of bullets.
On the other hand we cannot wish away the present state of affairs which exist in many parts of the world today , Jamaica being no exception.
A sense of awareness and realism should be paramount to all , particularly in Jamaica and more so those whose task it is to deal with those realities.
In my community I don’t hear of many incidents of crime, even so I teach and caution my family never to be caught saying “I never thought it could happen here”>.
Most crimes are incidents of opportunity, people take advantage of opportunities when they believe they will get away with exploiting others.
It’s just common sense not to leave ones’ self open to exploitation.
There are unconfirmed reports at least one of the murdered officers may have been threatened. If this is true it means someone had a premeditated desire to eliminate him. Why give someone an easy opportunity to eliminate you?
People have to get on with living their lives even with threats hanging over them I know , but sitting at a shop playing dominoes is certainly not the best way to protect one’self from harm.
Many years ago while I was a young officer stationed at the Constant Spring Police Station I received credible intelligence that a certain Punk who comes from a family of law breakers father included wanted to eliminate me because of the work I was doing in the Grant’s Pen area.
At that time there was no police station in Grants Pen .
Dadrick Henry , Parra Campbell myself and others were the Police station there.
That very night I strapped up and decided I was going to head out I was never a cop who knowingly allowed criminals to threaten me and sit on the intelligence.
It was just me and one , he know who he is I won’t mention his name he still lives in Jamaica. I always believed police must cultivate informants, that was how I sourced the intelligence. Secondly I believed firmly in having local knowledge. I will know where to find you at your mother;s house and yes at “yu gyal house”. Police need to know that these scumbags are fiends so they won’t stay far from the women that enable them, both their mothers and those who sleep with them.
I knew where this scumbag would be and at about midnight me and One walked along the Shortwood Road gully down to a footbridge which bridges both sides of the gully.
I expected him to be in his girl’s little shack , he wasn’t , he was sitting on a log under a single lamp post , the lone light glowed ominously in the warm summer night.
By the time he saw us we were three feet away there was nowhere to run.
He began to blabber how he didn’t want to die and people hated him and wanted the police to kill him. He was dressed in a cut-off pair of pants and wife beater undershirt. While he blabbed his bladder failed and the pissed snaked along as it mixed with the dirt like a meandering river heading nowhere in particular.
My Partner was not particularly as charitable as I was but I prevailed , I told the little punk as he looked down the barrel of my M16 Rifle “even if you thing of stepping to me I will find you and I will kill you , there is no place for you to hide from me”>
We left him standing there piss still streaming down his legs.
I never quite got the idea of issuing warnings to police officers about elevated levels of threats against their lives. This is the new fan-dangled bull-shit UWI policing I guess , every cop in Jamaica is always in mortal danger just by virtue of being a police officer. There is no elevated threat level Jamaica is a criminal coddling, criminal supporting society.
In a society as ours law enforcement is always going to be the enemy. Every cop good or bad is always in mortal danger.
Police Officer Lattibudier was shot and injured , while convalescing at home they went to his home and killed him in his bed . This was almost thirty(30) years ago.
The pot-bellied high command does the department a dis-service by talking about elevated threat levels against cops.
Police officers must be in the lead in understanding and displaying a sense of awareness. Even if two cops are at a local joint having a friendly game of dominoes both officer cannot be playing at the same time one person must be facing out ready to act. These are simple things which every officer understood to the best of my recollection.
Twenty four years after leaving law enforcement whenever I am seated in a restaurant, church or wherever I try as best as I can to be in a position in which I can best react to threats so I may protect my life and that of my family. Yes 24 years later, I’m old enough to know how to do it and young enough to get it done.
One gets the sense the Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams is a good man and one of integrity. It seem he means well but he is not the kind of leader who can get members of the JCF to where they should be in terms of being a competent force which will be able to protect their own lives much less protect the public.
Let’s be reasonable a lot of people deserve the shit the killers deal out, cops can do nothing right for them. Notwithstanding there are still good people living in Jamaica who deserve a Government which is not a crime syndicate and a competent police force they can trust and support.
The rain falls on the just and on the unjust. When the day comes in which our Country has good principled leadership and good competent law enforcement the police-hating ass-wipes will also benefit but such is life.
The Commissioner of Police says and does all of the right things in terms of stepping up and visiting with the families of slain police officers but the Commissioner lacks that which in my mind is the first order of business, the strategic storm trooper mentality of blanketing every community until the killers are exterminated.
Hell yes I said exterminated , they should never be allowed to be set free by the criminal coddling leftist courts system and yes FUCK (indecom) they better not get in the way. Since the courts cannot be trusted to apply justice police officers must bring justice to these killers.
Carl Williams does not have the know-how to do it.
The criminals who run the country systematically destroyed the police department beginning with Percival Patterson the colossal cancer which destroyed our country passed it down to POOR-SHA , and more POOR-SHA.
This is the way the PNP party wanted it so when they steal there would not be a competent 21st century police agency to investigate and prosecute them.
Today most of the Administration’s top supporters and functionaries are organized crime figures who are involved in all kinds of trans national crimes.
WHAT IS THE STRATEGY FOR CATCHING COP KILLERS?
Some time ago I wrote an Article in which I suggested that the Police be more proactive in the way it carries out it’s function taking into account the constraints placed against it’s effectiveness by the Government.
I argued then that Jamaica as a society gravitated to and literally required hard nosed name brand cops. Like in everything else Jamaicans recognize and revere the best and they have scant regard for the rest.
They want name brand clothes, shoes and yes they demand name brand cops. If officers do not command their respect they are toast, those of us who served in a meaningful way know that the people test you themselves, if you pass their test you are in for life with them and no one can harm you. If you are soft and ineffectual you are a laughing stock to be ridiculed and reviled.
Even the most hardened criminals fear name-brand cops. Their ways of policing reaped immense benefits, that which can be seen and that which many are unable to see, namely in crimes not committed.
There has always been an undervalued element to what those officers brought to certain police areas simply by being present in those localities.
Some of the methods employed were not text-book methods but they bore results.
I will not argue for breaching of civil rights under any circumstances but I will also say if you are dead there’s hardly any argument to be made for rights is there?
Being fallible the police made mistakes and the population made mistakes too.
None as egregious than allowing Carolyn Gomes a pediatric Doctor with grand designs as champion of social change in a Utopian system of rights security be damned to dictate how policing is done.
Out went cops who got the job done , in came the chair-warmers and the quotas.
Crime skyrockets and everyone cowers in fear including the police.
At this stage it would better in my estimation if the department is disbanded and a fresh start attempted focusing heavily on training. The entire department needs reorienting to a state of preparedness. Policing is not the boy’s scouts.
There is no point in having police who are unable to arrest criminals, I hate to break it to them but that is what police do, they arrest criminals and sometimes it’s not pretty.
A woman in a skirt and heels on her shoes with cell phone in hand is no damn use to her male counterpart wrestling with a violent offender who wants to do him harm and refuses to submit to arrest . Lets cut to the chase and deal with the facts we have all seen these cases.
Police officers do not step back from and cower in fear criminals do . Police in Jamaica now endure being punched and the assailant simply walk away.
On what planet I ask is that tolerable,?
With the Government starving the department of resources the pot-bellied crew at the top of the force should use the few vehicles they have as mobile police stations. This means placing them strategically in grids withing their police areas each with two or more officers capable of dealing with urgent situations.
This will severely impact the ability of criminals to commit crimes and use high powered motorcycles and cars to quickly traverse the country and avoid detection what with new highways and all.
Each minute a cop killer is on the loose is another minute for him to do more harm or leave the country. Jamaica is no stranger to cop killers being aided and abetted by the sitting Government to leave the country.
This is something People’s National Party Administrations are know for , they have done it before they will do it again . For all we know this scumbag may already have been shuttled out of the country.
The Police brass must develop grids which can easily be collapsed in instances such as the killing of the two officers.
Search parties cannot be had-hock run in knock on a few doors and leave .
Officers must be brought into the collapsing grid and the search done in sweeps leaving no stone un-turned. Anyone found harboring or found to have aided the suspect must be subject to the same fate as the principal offender.
Once officers are tired they should be rotated out of the search grid only after they are replaced with fresh officers there should be no let up until justice is brought to bear on these killers and whomever gives them aid and comfort.
By all accounts this guy Marlon Perry is a contract killer who has murdered several people before allegedly killing the two cops.
He is alleged to have strong ties to …
You guessed it the sitting Government in Kingston.
In all of this the bloated incompetent Police hierarchy must take blame . In the same way they allowed the likes of Duddus Coke and others to metastasize while they sat on their asses and did nothing it’s exactly what it is here.
There is no system of reporting. No system of accountability. No system of making sure when you say “we will leave no stone un-turned “people know it’s not empty rhetoric.
This is the environment in which crime grows and flourish. Despite political interference and strong arming of law enforcement by the corrupt Government in Kingston the police still can do a better job than they are doing presently.
All of the real cops are gone now, what’s left is a bunch of demoralized street cops who no longer see the need to risk anything> After all why should they at the top is a cadre of nincompoop who left the University of the West Indies and are rewarded with senior positions.
Those are there for the paycheck.
Officers who once went the extra mile are sidelined and disrespected. Throw the cop-killing (indecom) law into the mix and there is no reason for cops to do anything but collect the couple of bucks they dole out each month and keep their heads real low.
If anyone expect anything insofar as a strategic approach is concerned they are deluded, the ban-gut officer corp are in it for the paycheck, they are paper cops.
Policing in Jamaica is simply a modeling job , everyone is aware of it, none more-so than the hardened criminals who the very laws support.
When an area is known as a point for drugs and gun-running yet it is allowed to continue what’s the point of having a police department?
The price is many more dead civilians and .…
Aaah yes many more dead cops as well.