Investigators Should Proceed With Their Work As They Do In All Cases Despite Calls From Interest Groups…

I am a lit­tle con­fused at the calls for the Jamaica Constabulary Force and INDECOM to speed up the inves­ti­ga­tions sur­round­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of Donna-Lee Donaldson?
Most of all, I am at a loss as to why the People’s National Party is inter­ject­ing itself into mak­ing demands for alacrity in this par­tic­u­lar investigation?

The idea that inves­ti­ga­tors or an inves­tiga­tive agency can accel­er­ate and decel­er­ate an inves­ti­ga­tion is born from raw igno­rance of how inves­ti­ga­tions are conducted.
If inves­ti­ga­tors could increase and decrease the speed of inves­ti­ga­tions, there would prob­a­bly be no unsolved mur­ders. In real­i­ty, inves­ti­ga­tors are trained to fol­low the evi­dence, and when the trail dries up, they are forced to go back to the start and begin the process all over again.
The process at this time for law enforce­ment is to con­tin­ue approach­ing the young wom­an’s dis­ap­pear­ance as it approach­es all oth­er miss­ing per­son cas­es until evi­dence sur­faces that grad­u­ate their probe to a homi­cide investigation.
With all due respect to the miss­ing young lady and her fam­i­ly, all lives are the same. Each year many peo­ple go miss­ing in Jamaica, and there is no out­cry or demand for speedy inves­ti­ga­tions from the PNP.

Additionally, the con­tin­ued dis­ap­pear­ance of vul­ner­a­ble and not-so-vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple can­not be divorced from the larg­er issue of the unchecked crime rate on the Island.
It is on that issue that the People’s National Party is most exposed. As a polit­i­cal par­ty and one that has been in gov­ern­ment for the lion’s share of the peri­od since Independence, the PNP has no author­i­ty, legal or moral, to demand any­thing regard­ing crime, vio­lence, and corruption.
On issue after issue, time and time again, the PNP has failed to stand with the police, choos­ing instead to side with for­eign-fund­ed lob­bies like Jamaicans for Justice and oth­ers against our police offi­cers. Choosing to side with any cocka­mamie group that is thrown togeth­er that oppos­es the rule of law by their anti-police tirades.
The PNP has been an inte­gral part of the rot that basi­cal­ly destroyed the Jamaican Constabulary Force. The PNP’s dere­lic­tion of duty and direct assault on the JCF result­ed in a force that is now more form than sub­stance, a park­ing lot of nepo­tism and incompetence.
This par­ty has cho­sen to trade in the cur­ren­cy of polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy rather than look­ing out for the long-term inter­est of all of the Jamaican people.
Shut up already!!!
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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.