The country said it did not want so called “super-cops”, at least the pretentious social climbers from upper Saint Andrew did so real police officers exited the stage and left.
Many of us were saying this from Carolyn Gomes headed the criminal Rights Group which went by the acronym (JFJ) .
Both political parties joined with (JFJ) and Gomes, (FAST), The Human Rights Council, The norman Manley Law School. Some sectors of the University of the West Indies , The PMI, The Bar Association, The Public Defender’s office, the General media, and yes many who sit on the Bench in judgement of criminals are criminal coddlers themselves and of course a host of others helped in reshaping the Police department making it a paper tiger.
For all intents and purposes the JCF is nothing more than a parking lot for people who left the University of the West Indies could find no work and was seeking a paycheck.
In many instances the police force is a large bunch of wussified know nothings who as one my friends said runs away at the first sound of gunfire.
This of course is true as I found out in 1988 when three of us encountered a determined assassin on Blackwood Terrace. The punk opened fire at point blank range hitting a man we were escorting home. He had just made a report at the station about a threat on his life.
I totally understand the pressing inclination to run the other way when the sounds of a .45 revolver reverberates in the narrow confines of the zinc fences which adorned both sides of Blackwood terrace then.
In the pitch blackness of the night the next muzzle-flash I saw was that of the weapon being discharged and the bullet hitting me in the hip to buttox area of my left side as I grabbed the assailant trying to neutralize him before he could turn the weapon on me.
By this time my two comrades had long decided they weren’t going to wait around to figure out whether it was a “duppy or a gunman” they were gone.
This of course is true as I found out in 1988 when three of us encountered a determined assassin on Blackwood Terrace. The punk opened fire at point blank range hitting a man we were escorting home. He had just made a report at the station about a threat on his life.
I totally understand the pressing inclination to run the other way when the sounds of a .45 revolver reverberates in the narrow confines of the zinc fences which adorned both sides of Blackwood terrace then.
In the pitch blackness of the night the next muzzle-flash I saw was that of the weapon being discharged and the bullet hitting me in the hip to buttox area of my left side as I grabbed the assailant trying to neutralize him before he could turn the weapon on me.
By this time my two comrades had long decided they weren’t going to wait around to figure out whether it was a “duppy or a gunman” they were gone.
It wasn’t my training , it was determination but most of all unbridled anger that that piece of excrement had shot a totally innocent man and had the gall to shoot me.
Under no circumstances would I be a victim to this punk neither would the target of his initial murderous intent. Minutes later with blood soaked shoes I hoisted the groaning man’s hand around my neck and began the laborious trek down to Red Hills Road where we parked the police car.
In my waist was my service pistol and in my pocket was the gleaming .45 revolver I took from the piece of human waste.
Police officers cannot be afraid to be police, either you are or leave.
Members of the JCF are scared shitless to do their job because one little man with a napoleonic complex has hijacked the process and the stupid Jamaican public has it’s head too far up it’s collective ass it figure it out.
As a former front-line cop I want to hear nothing from arm-chair generals nor keyboard heroes who don’t know shit about what it takes to do Police work in that place.
Under no circumstances would I be a victim to this punk neither would the target of his initial murderous intent. Minutes later with blood soaked shoes I hoisted the groaning man’s hand around my neck and began the laborious trek down to Red Hills Road where we parked the police car.
In my waist was my service pistol and in my pocket was the gleaming .45 revolver I took from the piece of human waste.
Police officers cannot be afraid to be police, either you are or leave.
Members of the JCF are scared shitless to do their job because one little man with a napoleonic complex has hijacked the process and the stupid Jamaican public has it’s head too far up it’s collective ass it figure it out.
As a former front-line cop I want to hear nothing from arm-chair generals nor keyboard heroes who don’t know shit about what it takes to do Police work in that place.
The Police force has gotten worse instead of better in every way .
Of course one cannot exclude the fact that the JCF was front-loaded with thousands of poorly trained, and in many cases barely competent members of the ISCF who underwent no retraining.
Additionally there is the issue of the women now in the department , many of whom make no difference in the fight against crime.
This is in no way an attempt to disparage the contribution nor the capabilities of women in general.
It is merely a honest assessment of the facts as I saw them over the years.
It is merely a honest assessment of the facts as I saw them over the years.
I have worked with some capable women and I know for certain many of them are as capable as some men are and in rare cases more so.
Notwithstanding, in the context of Jamaican police training and precedent of women as effective crime fighters the vast majority of female officers have been mere window dressing.
Again let me hasten to say this is not an indictment on all female officers, and yes there have been no shortage of dead-wood male officers.
With that said I fundamentally believe that were the powers that be serious about crime fighting the entire JCF would have to be debriefed and retrained then the other components added in order to secure a competent and capable Police Department.
Of course one has to reasonable debate whether the grandiose know nothing village lawyers which form a huge part of the Jamaican population, many of whom spend the better part of their day on websites and other social media criticizing everything the police does actually deserve a competent police force?
Of course one has to reasonable debate whether the grandiose know nothing village lawyers which form a huge part of the Jamaican population, many of whom spend the better part of their day on websites and other social media criticizing everything the police does actually deserve a competent police force?