Supreme court build­ing Kingston:

Continuing our series on Jamaica’s crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem we want to speak briefly about a motion filed by 8 police offi­cers in Jamaica’s con­sti­tu­tion­al court regard­ing the pow­er of recent­ly formed inves­tiga­tive group INDECOM’s pow­er to force them to tes­ti­fy against themselves.

INDECOM had served notices on the claimants for them to attend the Video Unit at the Central Police Station on September 14, 2010 to answer ques­tions in rela­tion to the fatal shoot­ing of two men at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine, on August 12, 2010. They did not attend and were sub­se­quent­ly charged by INDECOM with fail­ure to com­ply. The case, await­ing the rul­ing of the Constitutional Court, is for men­tion on May 4 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The attor­ney gen­er­al and the direc­tor of pub­lic pros­e­cu­tion was also named in the offi­cers suit.(jamaica​glean​er​.com)

I am not a lawyer ‚but with that dis­claimer out-of-the-way, let’s get some com­mon sense into the con­ver­sa­tion. Without tak­ing sides one way or the oth­er, it sim­ply comes down to the constitution.

INDECOM through its lawyers are con­tend­ing, had the police offi­cers attend­ed the Central Police Station Video unit to answer ques­tions from INDECOM they could have raised objec­tions regard their con­sti­tu­tion­al right to silence. Really?

If the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of these offi­cers, and all Jamaicans for that mat­ter, are guar­an­teed by the Jamaican con­sti­tu­tion against self-incrim­i­na­tion, as they most cer­tain­ly are, then the order to tes­ti­fy against them­selves is a moot order. Lawyers for INDECOM cel­e­brat­ed as they are , ought to be aware that no per­son can be forced to tes­ti­fy against them­selves, and even though police offi­cers are not peo­ple in Jamaica, they are also pro­tect­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion against self-incrim­i­na­tion. I will not attempt to indict the com­pe­tence of this court , how­ev­er this is a straight for­ward mat­ter that real­ly ought to be decid­ed straight­away with­out advisement.

Every last Jamaican cit­i­zen is guar­an­teed the right to defend them­selves against what the law calls unlaw­ful arrest, they are empow­ered to resist arrest if with­in in their opin­ion they are being sub­ject­ed to arrest unlaw­ful­ly. To cit­i­zens of oth­er coun­tries that may be shock­ing news, but it is the law in Jamaica. Every cit­i­zen in Jamaica is also guar­an­teed the right not to incrim­i­nate them­selves. In essence no cit­i­zen may be forced to speak to the police, if evi­dence is deemed to be gleaned through threats, intim­i­da­tion, coer­cion, or offers and promis­es of any­thing mate­r­i­al that state­ment by that per­son becomes inad­mis­si­ble in a court of law. Unfortunately high-priced lawyers for INDECOM does not believe those guar­an­tees extend to police offi­cers when they are accused of crim­i­nal actions.

What lawyers for INDECOM are ask­ing the con­sti­tu­tion­al court to do is to dis­re­gard the con­sti­tu­tion­al rights of these 8 police offi­cers, in order that they may have more pow­er. Miranda rights as they are called in the United States, is a must for all per­sons so arrest­ed or being ques­tioned in con­nec­tion with an inves­ti­ga­tion. The right against self-incrim­i­na­tion is fun­da­men­tal, so fun­da­men­tal that even though one choses to take what is ref­ered to as the 5^th in the USA, in ref­er­ence to the amend­ment to the con­sti­tu­tion that pro­vides that guar­an­tee, that per­son may not be penal­ized in any way for doing so. I know that many will argue that is in the US, the truth is those guar­an­tees are indeed avail­able to every Jamaican.

It would be a good place for the court to estab­lish authen­tic­i­ty as a fair and legit­i­mate arbiter of facts as they relate to the rights of all Jamaicans. It would be a good thing for this court to make sure jus­tice is not only done but also appear to be done. Justice delayed is jus­tice denied. Rule with­out giv­ing the impres­sion that there is a con­spir­a­cy of sorts against these defen­dants. Rule and allow the case to pro­ceed in the crim­i­nal court. The rights of these police defen­dants are not impor­tant to Jamaicans for Justice. The rights of these offi­cers are impor­tant to me.

If you thought you had heard it all as it relates to the mad­ness that exists on the Island of Jamaica fol­low these blogs. Many who live abroad but would like to relo­cate to Jamaica will truth­ful­ly tell you they are restrained from return­ing to the land of their birth because of a pletho­ra of rea­sons, not least of which is the inor­di­nate­ly high crime rate that has plagued the Island nation for decades. I for my part have been sound­ing the drum-beat for a long time about the run-away crime and the rea­son it con­tin­ues to be so. There is no one issue that fuels the high crime rate in Jamaica, and as such the solu­tion will have to be a mul­ti-faceted approach to fix­ing it .

No issue stands out in the con­tin­ued decline of our Country’s moral fibre than the break­down in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, as I have point­ed out in these blogs some of the peo­ple tasked with adju­di­cat­ing are lit­tle more than crim­i­nal sup­port­ers them­selves. Jamaica’s Judges have always been a lib­er­al bunch ‚many hav­ing done their law degrees in England ‚not a Country known for deal­ing deci­sive­ly with hard­ened crim­i­nals, most oth­ers are schooled at the University of the West Indies , a place that is fast becom­ing a laugh­ing-stock , a place where Vybz Kartel deliv­ered a lec­ture, a place that has been for decades, a lib­er­al socialist/​communist breed­ing ground. The University of the West Indies have been a place from which the Communist news­pa­per the strug­gle was born, and lec­tur­ers like Trevor Munroe were heroes.

It is no won­der then, that those who grad­u­ate from that insti­tu­tion would be less than ide­al for the pur­pose of admin­is­ter­ing deci­sive jus­tice even putting aside the archa­ic penal­ties on the books. As I have point­ed out time and again the great­est deter­rent to crime is soci­ety’s deci­sive actions in catch­ing crim­i­nals and putting them away for lengthy peri­ods of time. Will those actions erad­i­cate crime? No! but since the bleed­ing hearts in soci­ety have won the day and law-abid­ing cit­i­zens have cow­ered in fear from hav­ing mur­der­ers pay the ulti­mate price, then that is the next best thing.

Jamaican Judges have as a sin­gle unit, tak­en a wreck­ing ball to our coun­try’s National Security, Jamaica is now a tri­al lawyers par­adise. Trial lawyers are a pow­er­ful lob­by group in Jamaica and they do not need to do much in terms of influ­ence ped­dling on a pop­u­la­tion that is large­ly illit­er­ate, and to a large degree cor­rupt. In Jamaica any­one who is some­one knows every­one who is some­one. Ok I know that was a lit­tle like, huh ? but you get the pic­ture. My point is influ­ence ped­dling is real­ly easy when one con­sid­ers that most crim­i­nal lawyers and the Judges attend­ed the same law schools and are part of the same clubs and organizations.The aver­age Jamaican is real­ly shut out of the process.

When Criminals are let off eas­i­ly cit­i­zens have no faith in the sys­tem, if they have no faith in the sys­tem they turn to local enforcers for a dif­fer­ent brand of jus­tice, they do not report crimes to the police, if they do not report crimes to the police the police becomes irrelevant,criminals become embold­ened, which breeds more crime. The most ardent advo­cates for an inde­pen­dent Judiciary with­out over­sight are trail lawyers, why is that? what is their inter­est? I’ll tell you , if your friend the Judge is unre­strained in what he or she can do as it relates to your client would­n’t you want an unre­strained Judiciary? Jamaica’s Judges are some of the most activist in the world , it is not uncom­mon for them to blast a Ministry or the entire Government from the bench, even though they are hired and paid by the same Government. They use the bench to berate the police and any­one who has incurred their wrath, in essence the deco­rum and air of being above it all does not apply to them. They berate poor­ly trained over worked pros­e­cu­tors, while cheer lead­ing defense attorneys.

None of this is lost on the crim­i­nal ele­ments who are usu­al­ly sit­ting right there in the court-rooms watch­ing and laugh­ing at police and hap­less ill pre­pared pros­e­cu­tors. As we have done when we see these despi­ca­ble acts we bring them to your atten­tion so you may decide , you be the judge, no pun intend­ed, you thought you have heard it all well not quite .

HERE’S A REPORT FROM THE JAMAICA DAILY NEWS.

JUSTICE Lennox Campbell on Wednesday drew fire from the direc­tor of pub­lic pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) after he abrupt­ly ter­mi­nat­ed jury selec­tion and sent home the four men charged with the mur­der of a retired police offi­cer 12 years ago. Between Monday and Wednesday, 11 jurors were empan­elled out of the required 12 to com­plete the pan­el when Justice Campbell, who had been seething over the issue of jury short­age since Monday, expressed his frus­tra­tion and told the men that they were free to go. “Go home,” Campbell told the men in the Home Circuit Court. “I’m not giv­ing you a date to return. Good-bye.” Campbell also removed the report­ing con­di­tion of the men — Byron Johnson, Solomon Johnson, Devon Hackett and Carlos Williams — who were on bail. Surprised by Campbell’s direc­tive, Diahann Gordon Harrison, the deputy direc­tor of pub­lic pros­e­cu­tions assigned to the case, sought clar­i­ty but the judge insist­ed that he would not be set­ting a return date for the men. Both the pros­e­cu­tion and defence lawyers protest­ed, sug­gest­ing that the jus­tice order the police to select per­sons from off the streets (known in legal cir­cles as tails­men) to fill the one remain­ing slot on the pan­el, but Justice Campbell was firm in his deci­sion, say­ing that the case had been before the court for the past 11 years and that each accused per­son had the con­sti­tu­tion­al right to be tried with­in a rea­son­able time of being charged. Campbell also upbraid­ed the pros­e­cu­tion over the short­age of jurors despite the fact that it is the court staff and the police offi­cers in charge of deten­tion and courts who are respon­si­ble for procur­ing jurors, through the process of sum­mons­es. Defence attor­ney Valerie Neita-Robertson inter­vened on the part of the pros­e­cu­tion but she, too, suf­fered Justice Campbell’s ire. Contacted by the Observer short­ly after court, DPP Paula Llewellyn said that Justice Campbell did not act in accor­dance with the law in send­ing home the men. “The course adopt­ed by the learned tri­al judge for the dis­pos­al of a Circuit Court mat­ter was the wrong approach,” said Llewellyn, who not­ed that her office had been mak­ing con­cert­ed efforts to rid the court list of old cas­es. “In all my 26 years as a pros­e­cu­tor I have nev­er seen any­thing like that. I am extreme­ly dis­ap­point­ed by the judge’s action; that is noth­ing but a nul­li­ty,” Llewellyn said. Llewellyn said that a case before a jury can only be dis­charged in one of four ways — by the pros­e­cu­tion enter­ing a nolle pros­e­qui; a pan­el of jurors being direct­ed by a judge to return a for­mal ver­dict of not guilty if the pros­e­cu­tion offers no fur­ther evi­dence; the uphold­ing of a no case sub­mis­sion at the end of the pros­e­cu­tion’s case; or a pan­el of jurors return­ing a ver­dict of not guilty after delib­er­a­tion on evi­dence pre­sent­ed dur­ing a tri­al. The men were joint­ly charged with the December 1999 shoot­ing death of retired police Corporal James Calder McDonald in Seaforth, St Thomas. McDonald’s throat was also slashed and his firearm stolen.The case has been on the Home Circuit Court list since September 17, 2001. Court records indi­cate that there were 38 tri­al dates and adjourn­ments were grant­ed over the years for var­i­ous rea­sons, includ­ing a short­age of jurors. The men can be re-arrest­ed and brought back before the court or sum­mons issued for them to appear.jamaica observ​er​.com

Gleaner pho­to of Campbell with Resident Magistrates

Is it the fault of James Calder or his family?does the right of the accused men super­sede the right cor­po­ral Calder had to life? And if so is there any won­der why the sys­tem is now reduced to a cesspool of cor­rup­tion and graft? How does Lennox Campbell the “ground God” explain his actions as per the argu­ments made by DPP Llewelyn as to the ways in which a case may be dis­charged by a Judge, or does his lord­ship even need to account ? The Charlatans at the Criminal Rights lob­by group Jamaicans for jus­tice,those at fam­i­lies against state ter­ror­ism and all the oth­er ter­ror sup­port­ing groups are duplic­i­tous­ly silent. Had a judge released a police offi­cer from his/​her oblig­a­tions to answer to a charge of homi­cide against a typ­i­cal low down dirty scum bag crim­i­nals irre­spec­tive of the amount of time that had elapsed , all of the afore­men­tioned ter­ror sup­port­ers would be up in arms con­demn­ing that judge, yet they are all silent when Campbell releas­es these mag­gots who slashed the throats of this offi­cer and stole his weapon.

There is no statute of lim­i­ta­tions for mur­der there­fore it is real­ly not up to lord Campbell to decide to send these scum home, fail­ure to empan­el a jury is not the fault of the mur­dered police offi­cer or his fam­i­ly, it is the fault of the judge , in this case Lennox Campbell, it is the fault of the cor­rupt sys­tem that obtains there that makes it almost impos­si­ble after eleven years to empan­el a jury . What does it say about a coun­try when it becomes nec­es­sary to release mur­der­ers who kill police offi­cer because a judge can­not empan­el a jury?

Mini Gods like Campbell and oth­ers named on this site have tak­en it upon them­selves to admin­is­ter their indi­vid­ual brand of jus­tice in a coun­try where they are called “your lord­ship” They have sim­ply believed their own press. Those who call for a judi­cia­ry with­out over­sight bet­ter be aware of what they are clam­our­ing for, the tri­al lawyers know what they are ask­ing for,but the aver­age guy on the streets that wants judges to be total­ly free from over­sight or account­abil­i­ty have no idea what they are advo­cat­ing. Kern Spencer’s crim­i­nal tri­al is no fur­ther to a res­o­lu­tion than when it com­menced because a Resident mag­is­trate refus­es to recuse her­self from the case even when it is clear that her utter­ances has prej­u­diced the case against the peo­ple, what is the recourse of the peo­ple ? you tell me, there is no recourse the case is still in lim­bo and the same Magistrate is in charge, (anoth­er mini god)

Jamaica is not a coun­try like Barbadoes that has a large­ly edu­cat­ed pop­u­la­tion, the major­i­ty of the peo­ple who are poor and une­d­u­cat­ed look up to those who are able to read much less those who are edu­cat­ed and/​or wield pow­er, at every turn those who wield pow­er and are revered by the peo­ple use the pow­er they have to dis­re­spect the peo­ple. Jamaican judges have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly dis­re­spect­ed the peo­ple by using their posi­tions of pow­er to leg­is­late from the bench when their func­tion is to aju­di­cate, to inter­pret the laws and admin­is­ter jus­tice impartially.

Supreme Court Judges are demand­ing more secu­ri­ty as the coun­try gets more and more law­less, by the way it is the police who are sup­ply­ing the secu­ri­ty to judges like Lennox Campbell, oh I would rel­ish that assign­ment to pro­vide secu­ri­ty to Lennox Campbell , his lord­ship.

Just this week Police in Westmoreland were left scram­bling look­ing for two men charged with mul­ti­ple homi­cides, brought before the court , and prompt­ly released on bail by the lib­er­al fools that pass for Judges in Jamaica. First off let me say to the police here and now “do not waste any ener­gy look­ing for these two killers , if they turn up and say they want to be re-incar­cer­at­ed lock them up, but don’t waste your time look­ing for them , their sup­port­ers on the bench will just turn them loose again.”

Nowhere else in the civ­i­lized world are sus­pects accused of mur­der released on bail , nowhere! Or maybe I am putting Jamaica where it does not belong, are we a civ­i­lized nation? What are the char­ac­ter­is­tics that pre­vents Jamaican Judges from com­pre­hend­ing that crim­i­nal mur­der­ers must be behind bars. Is there a con­spir­a­cy between cer­tain Judges and trails lawyers to return crim­i­nals to the streets?

Where is the out­cry from the Nation when mur­der­ers are returned to the streets as soon as police lock them up? There are those who open their foul mouths to con­demn police on every­thing they do , but are blind to what is real­ly going on in our coun­try. instead what they have done is cre­ate anoth­er use­less Agency to snoop around behind police look­ing for mis­takes in actions offi­cers take large­ly in defense of their own lives , these tax wast­ing idiots are sim­i­lar to dogs smelling the ass of oth­er dogs. The coun­try is swim­ming in blood , crim­i­nals are embold­ened to do as they please and what do they do they cre­ate a set of losers that will get no sup­port from the police and should­n’t ‚let them go face the bul­lets if they want to be cops . I urge all police offi­cers on the streets ‚not to give any assis­tance , help, or sup­port to INDECOM, if they want facts let them find it for them­selves. fur­ther­more I urge all smart offi­cers to pro­tect your lives , that of your fam­i­lies and leave the rest to INDECOM, let see these morons do some work for the mon­ey they are get­ting , they want to be inves­ti­ga­tors , let them face the music.! Rather than strength­en the coun­try’s crime fight­ing capa­bil­i­ties by con­tin­u­ing to mod­ern­ize the force, pay­ing offi­cers a decent wage, remov­ing dead-wood cops , remov­ing cor­rupt cops they cre­ate a bunch of pre­tend cops, and cre­ate a pub­lic defend­er’ office. What the hell is a pub­lic defend­er? Isn’t that what the min­istry of jus­tice is sup­posed to do ? So all these morons come beat­ing their chests , new Sheriff in town , demo­niz­ing cops as a way to remain in good stand­ing with the over­sized crim­i­nal pop­u­la­tion. So what do we end up with , from Carolyn Gomes , to Earl Witter, to Delroy Chuck, to Terrence Williams, and the list goes on and on , every­one is against the police. Who wor­ries about the crim­i­nals I wonder?

Crime has been trend­ing steadi­ly upwards of late, there are those who are apt to blame the police, does any­one stop to think that the rea­son crime is at that astro­nom­i­cal lev­el and trend­ing north­wards is sole­ly because there is very min­i­mal like­li­hood that any­one will be held account­able when they com­mit crimes . Jamaica has long sur­ren­dered to crim­i­nals. Politicians , lawyers , judges, busi­ness-peo­ple all, have long con­clud­ed that crime is here to stay and they are bet­ter of leav­ing it alone , sup­port it, or join in. The coun­try is now a crim­i­nal par­adise, remov­ing Dudus will not end crime, the can­cer­ous lesion is malig­nant, and will con­tin­ue to eat away at the very fibre of the soci­ety, while the inhab­i­tants eat cur­ry goat and dagger,until it is each and every one’s turn to be slaugh­tered by the mind­less demons that roam the streets unencumbered.

mike beck­les.

We con­tin­ue in the series as titled above here’s a sto­ry from our friends at the Jamaica Observer.

As we con­tin­ue to point out the glar­ing bro­ken sys­tem of Justice in Jamaica ‚we have post­ed a list of names of some of the Jamaicans arrest­ed in the Island nation of Barbados. Some of whom have plead guilty for the drug relat­ed offences with which they were charged, and sen­tenced as indi­cat­ed below.

Jurists in Barbados seem to under­stand what their respon­si­bil­i­ties are. Their actions show that they take those respon­si­bil­i­ties seri­ous­ly. The peo­ple of Barbados have through word and deed demon­strat­ed that they want to have a coun­try that is free from crime and ter­ror . Fortunately Barbados Judges are on board with the dic­tates of the peo­ple who pay them.

Below is the full list of the offenders:

1.Lemard Martin, 21, of Lot 9, Ambrook Lane, Kingston 10, Jamaica. He passed 125 pack­ages, weight 1 ½ lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

2.Sheldon G. Christie, 26, of Orange Hill Post Office, Brown’s Town, St Ann, Jamaica. He passed 52 pack­ages, weight 2lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

3.Hector Donald White, 46, of #7 Birdsucker Lane, Kingston 8, Jamaica. He passed 52 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

4.Nicardo Odane Gordon, 22, of Aboukir Fullerton Park. Inverness PO., Jamaica. He passed 82 pack­ages, weight 2 lbs.Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

5.Romel A Smith, 28, of Grazettes New Road, St. Michael, Barbados. He passed 215 pack­ages, weight 2 lbs.Pleaded not guilty, to return to court on the Oct 31, 2011. Offered bail.

6.Deshawn George Campbell, 25, of #15 Bromley Ave., Kingston 20, Jamaica. He passed 44 pack­ages, weight 2 ½ lbs.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

7.Casavia Walker, 36, Lot 11, August Town Road, Kingston 7, Jamaica. He passed 82 packages.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

8. Christopher Garrett, 33, of Lot 66 Woodlands, Red Hills, St. Andrew, Jamaica. He passed 12 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.;

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

9.Gregory Desantos, 20, Fairy Valley, Christ Church, Barbados. He passed 153 pack­ages, weight 1 lb.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 24 months imprisonment
Importation – 24 “ “
Illegal Possession – 18 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute– 18 months
Sentences will run concurrently.

10.Sonia Frasier, 37, of Flankers District, Montego Bay, Jamaica. She had 1 pack­age insert­ed in her body cav­i­ty and anoth­er con­cealed in her body tights. She arrived on Sunday August 7, 2011 by air.

Sentences:
Trafficking- 36 months imprisonment
Importation – 36 “ “
Illegal Possession – 24 months
Possession with intent to dis­trib­ute – 24 months
Sentences will run con­cur­rent­ly.(jamaica​glean​er​.com)

Conversely I will post for you a rul­ing by a Jamaican Judge in a mat­ter where two women were appre­hend­ed bring­ing 2 and 3 pounds of COCAINE respec­tive­ly into the coun­try , both women plead guilty.

Two women caught import­ing cocaine into Jamaica were on Thursday sen­tenced to 18 months in prison and slapped with heavy fines. Those con­vict­ed are 30-year-old Alecia Williams of May Pen, Clarendon; and 25-year-old Babeth Bowland of Alexandria, St Ann. The two plead­ed guilty when they appeared before the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court. The nar­cotics police had report­ed that on July 27, Bowland was return­ing to the island on a flight from Guyana; at Norman Manley International Airport; when she was stopped and searched.Nearly three pounds of cocaine was found in a pair of sneak­ers in her suitcase.The fol­low­ing day, Williams was return­ing on a flight from Trinidad; when she was also stopped and searched. The cops say she was found to be in pos­ses­sion of near­ly two pounds of cocaine​.In addi­tion to their 18-month sen­tences, the two were each fined 650-thou­sand dol­lars. They will serve an addi­tion­al six months in prison if they fail to pay the fines. Fri. Aug.05,2011 8:00pm(cour­tesy RJR news.

You be the Judge (no pun intended)

We will con­tin­ue to present the facts , you decide ‚whether we are being fair or not.

The ridi­cilous lib­er­al bro­ken sys­tem of jus­tice has wrought untold harm to our coun­try. It is not the only rea­son that our coun­try is in a mess , it is how­ev­er a major con­trib­u­tor to the law­less­ness in the coun­try. In most Jurisdiction sus­pects fac­ing charges of mur­der are not grant­ed bail, not so in Jamaica.

Jamaica is a tri­al lawyer’s par­adise, their lob­by is pow­er­ful and in a small, coun­try where most of the judges are from just around the cor­ner it is not a stretch that their world view would be shaped by their env­iorn­ment, as such we have seen the courts become more and more ridi­cilous­ly liberal.

The University of West Indies which to a large extent edu­cates Jamaica’s Judges has long been a sim­mer­ing coul­dron of far left- wing ide­ol­o­gy, the com­mu­nist work­ers part and oth­er groups have had their birth­place on the mona com­pus of that uni­ver­si­ty. Yours tru­ly was once tarred and feath­ered pre­viewed in the WPJ’s pub­li­ca­tion the (Struggle) as a ter­ror­ist cop. My crimes? Preventing a rag­ing mob of demon­star­tors from ille­gal­ly enter­ing the grounds of Jamaica House .

There is ample evi­dence that mur­der sus­pects locked up by the police are giv­en bail over and over again, . In one case a sus­pect was grant­ed bail 5 times , each time he was bailed he alleged­ly killed the wit­ness­es, abscond­ed ‚was brought back and prompt­ly released to kill again. There are those who argue that bail was not intend­ed to be a punitive.

I argue that the law implic­it­ly states that if the per­son seek­ing bail is a flight risk then he or she should not be giv­en bail. In the case men­tioned above the sus­pect fled the coun­try , and was giv­en bail over and over again.

If the sus­pect seek­ing bail is believed to be a risk to wit­ness­es that sus­pect is not to recieve bail, on numer­ous occa­sions bone- head­ed Jamaican Judges have turned crim­in­las loose , and true to form the wit­ness in the case against them just hap­pen to turn up dead . in some instances killed the night before the case is to be heard.

I do not have a spe­cif­ic num­ber of wit­ness­es and their fam­i­lies that have been slaugh­tered by crim­i­nals that have been giv­en bail , who prompt­ly go out and mur­der wit­ness­es, then turn up for tri­al , upon which they are released for want of pros­e­cu­tion. One such case hap­pened on Hagley Park Road at a bus-stop, morn­ing rush hour, in front of scores of commuters.

Jamaica’s Bar Assoc, is a pow­er­ful voice in the debate of how jus­tice is admin­is­tered. Powerful forces in the so-called human rights fra­ter­ni­ty add to the cho­rus in sup­port of crim­i­nals. When those are looked at in the con­text of the make up of the amount of lawyers in the lead­er­ship of both polit­i­cal par­ties it is not hard to imag­ine why we are in the pick­le we are in.

These forces are privy to the fact that we have a large swath of our pop­u­la­tion that are low infro­ma­tion peo­ple, as such they real­ly do not fear an upris­ing of sort , they con­tin­ue to gam­ble that the major­i­ty of peo­ple who live in the coutry want to live in the cesspool of crime and fear that prevails. 

The big play­ers pret­ty much all have American, Canadian, and British Passports and dual-cit­i­zen­ship. They have no desire to live in the mess they make , they milk all the mon­ey they can from the bro­ken sys­tem, then head for Florida.

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From time to time Jamaicans com­plain about some of the speed lim­its post­ed on cer­tain roads. We all get frus­trat­ed when we can­not zoom to and from where we want to go, and some­times just for the sheer exhil­a­ra­tion and fun, inher­ent in the act of dri­ving. An act that is tru­ly one of the real­ly great plea­sures of life.

If you don’t do it for a liv­ing that is.

July 31^st six peo­ple were killed in two sep­a­rate crash­es in Trelawny and St. Mary respec­tive­ly. This morn­ing August 1^st a motor­cy­clist and pas­sen­ger were killed in Toll Gate Clarendon.The police are report­ing nei­ther the motor­cy­clist nor the pas­sen­ger were wear­ing pro­tec­tive head-gear. To the best of my knowl­edge there is no law dic­tat­ing manda­to­ry hel­met use for motor­cy­clist and their passengers.

According to Police they are unable to say defin­i­tive­ly what caused the motor cycle crash, they the­o­rized it was speed­ing, the police went on to say no one has come for­ward to say what hap­pened. Word to the police , you guys real­ly are going to have to start look­ing to sci­en­tif­ic meth­ods to explain traf­fic acci­dents with­out any­one com­ing forward.

Long drag marks gen­er­al­ly mean some­one was speed­ing , before a crash,

Short drag gen­er­al­ly mean slow­er rate of speed .

No drag, gen­er­al­ly mean the dri­ver prob­a­bly fell asleep, or was under the influ­ence, real­ly nev­er saw it coming.

An acci­dent is some­thing the dri­ver could not have avoid­ed, and did not cause.

A crash is some­thing that the driver/​s caused out of neg­li­gence or oth­er means.

Example of an acci­dent : a dri­ver oper­at­ing under the rules of the road, is not ine­bri­at­ed by drink, drug, or any oth­er mind alter­ing sub­stance loos­es con­trol due to mois­ture on the road-way, oil, water, snow, and crashes.

A crash is the oppo­site : care­less; reck­less dri­ving, speed­ing, dri­ving under the influ­ence of drink , drugs, or oth­er mind alter­ing sub­stance, or oper­at­ing a vehi­cle in any oth­er way that is in con­tra­ven­tion of the rules of the roads. Police Officers inves­ti­gat­ing crash­es have to be able to make those dis­tinc­tions, this is now a sci­ence and requires the same amount of care and dili­gence that is required in homi­cide and oth­er seri­ous crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions, in some cas­es there needs to be a recon­struc­tion of the accident/​crash site with a view to deter­min­ing the lev­el of crim­i­nal neg­li­gence if any. After all vehic­u­lar manslaugh­ter is a seri­ous offense and should be pun­ished. I implore traf­fic police offi­cers, take your jobs seri­ous­ly, what you do in these inves­ti­ga­tions are sim­i­lar to what crim­i­nal detec­tives do in deter­min­ing crim­i­nal culpability.

For too long peo­ple have been dri­ving with Heineken , and gussi­ness bot­tles between their legs, this is preva­lent amongst those who oper­ate pub­lic pas­sen­ger vehi­cles, as well as pri­vate operators.

Another mind alter­ing drug is the wide­spread use of mar­i­jua­na amongst a wide cross-sec­tion of Jamaicans , it is high time that tests are done on dri­vers at the scene of crash­es to deter­mine whether they are under any influence.

As we all know most crash­es on our roads are not acci­dents , they are crash­es, insti­gat­ed by improp­er use of the road, drink­ing and dri­ving, improp­er over­tak­ing, no sig­nalling, tail­gat­ing, speeding,overloading, and a pletho­ra of road traf­fic infractions.Most crit­ics say well these are not seri­ous crimes , we have more press­ing crimes to attend to. I dis­agree , look at the results of these crashes.

If the car­nage on the roads is to be stopped , the police must first take a no-non­sense approach to speed­ing , a head on col­li­sion with two auto­mo­biles going 40 miles per hour each,crashes at 80 miles an hour, gen­er­al­ly no one walks away from that type of crash with the auto­mo­biles we have today. However this is a tall order as we ask the police to do more , unsup­port­ed by leg­is­la­tion, and a jus­tice sys­tem that is in tat­ters and real­ly does noth­ing to make it clear to scofflaws, that they will be severe­ly penalized.

If the police is to be suc­ces­ful in sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing the car­nage on the roads, they must first purge the dirty cops from with­in their own ranks. Scofflaws must under­stand they will not be able to hand a few bills to cops and con­tin­ue to break the laws, the actions of the police must how­ev­er be sup­port­ed , hand in hand by stiffer tougher penalties.

What we are see­ing play out on our streets is an exten­sion of the deprav­i­ty and out­right law­less­ness that is now the norm , of course there is no vis­i­ble end in sight with the present crop of politi­cians and oth­ers who ben­e­fit from this chaos.

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A young mem­ber of the intel­li­gence arm of the police force was shot and injured Thursday night .The offi­cer with JUST under two years ser­vice in the JCF sin­gle-hand­ed­ly chal­lenged and killed two gun­men in Portmore, St Catherine, dur­ing a rob­bery attempt.

Allegations are that the rook­ie, who is believed to be in his ear­ly 20s, was stand­ing out­side a gate in Cumberland with friends, when they were held up by two gun­men. The police con­sta­ble was shot in the arm dur­ing the drama.

“We must com­mend his brav­ery, it speaks to the lev­el of his train­ing and con­fi­dence,” head of the Criminal Investigative Branch (CIB), Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, told The Gleaner yes­ter­day.[cour­tesy dai­ly gleaner]

Another Police Officer was shot and almost killed as per the above report from Jamaica’s Daily Gleaner. Fortunately this young offi­cer sur­vived , despite being shot. As is to be expect­ed there is no word of con­dem­na­tion from those on talk radio.There is no word of con­dem­na­tion to my knowl­edge from Jamaica’s crim­i­nal rights fra­ter­ni­ty to include the defense attorneys.

Were this valiant young offi­cer not of this cal­i­bre the out­come would most cer­tain­ly be dif­fer­ent for him and his friends.

I urge Jamaicans of all stripes ‚who love free­dom, those who want a safe crime free Jamaica ‚let your voic­es be heard, do not be cowed. I know some­times fear becomes over-pow­er­ing, it some­times seem that the forces of evil can­not be turned around. I do how­ev­er believe that we can make a dif­fer­ence if we let our voic­es be heard.

As is evi­denced by the com­ments under this sto­ry in the Gleaner, you can be heard, when you open your mouths, the sup­port­ers of evil remain silent . As Jamaicans we were a respect­ed peo­ple around the world, we are respect­ed for our abil­i­ties in sports , music, the arts, education,hospitality,and our con­vic­tion in speak­ing truth to pow­er. Our Nation has done so on many occa­sions. Whether its apartheid, race rela­tions in America, pover­ty in the world , or what­ev­er the issue of the day is, we have been in the fore­front of the defense of what is right.

We can return to our glo­ry days of respect in the world , but we must first decide to return to the rule of law, we must return to putting the inter­est of the inno­cent first and putting crim­i­nals where they belong , so that our coun­try can be free, and our peo­ple live out their God-giv­en poten­tial. The great­est right of any per­son is their right to life.

Get well Officer.

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At the start of this year Police Commissioner Owen Ellington declared to the Country that he would be demand­ing from Divisional Commanders their strat­e­gy to com­plete­ly dis­man­tle Jamaica’s Criminal Gangs.The Police argue that there are sev­er­al dozen Criminal Gangs oper­at­ing across the Island.Some Non Governmental Organizations dis­pute those claims, argu­ing that some of the group­ings of peo­ple the Police call gangs are just guys hang­ing out on the corners.

Horace Levy has been a senior lec­tur­er and research fel­low at the University of the West Indies since 1998. His 2009 mono­graph Killing Streets and Community Revival is based both on his research and his active involve­ment since 2002 in the Peace Management Initiative. (AAP Home > Department of City & Regional Planning).The argu­ments made by mis­ter Levy is based on his asso­ci­a­tion with the orga­ni­za­tion he helps to lead, the PMI.

Having spent a decade polic­ing the inner cities and gar­risons of Jamaica ‚I must say with all due respect to Mister Levy and the PMI, despite the valu­able work they do, I am more inclined to go with the assess­ment of the Police.The work of the PMI though invalu­able, is dif­fer­ent from the role of the police . Operatives of the PMI are seen in these com­mu­ni­ties in a dif­fer­ent light than the way the police is viewed.

Arguing that guys on the cor­ner who behave in a civ­il way around PMI oper­a­tives are some­how divorced from turf-defense, extor­tion, and the com­mis­sion of oth­er crimes, shows a lack of under­stand­ing of how crim­i­nals oper­ate. It’s naïveté, or much worse. That argu­ment is sim­i­lar to that of par­ents whom have done their best to raise a child, would swear on the Bible that the child nev­er indulges in bad behav­ior, until that child is con­vict­ed of crim­i­nal wrong doing. We can do our best to raise our kids but we should nev­er swear on their honesty.

Back to com­mis­sion­er Ellington:

On hear­ing the announce­ment from the Commissioner my imme­di­ate incli­na­tion was to won­der how many Commanders had train­ing or under­stand­ing how to exe­cute the man­date giv­en by their boss? I am not say­ing that the Commanders, some of whom are sea­soned street cops can­not effec­tive­ly erad­i­cate the gangs with­in their sphere of com­mand. What I do know as a mat­ter of fact is that some of them have no clue, no will, and oth­ers are timid lead­ers who had great­ness thrust upon them. If we are to erad­i­cate the mon­ster of gang vio­lence there must be effec­tive leg­is­la­tion that pre­cedes the police effort. The police com­mis­sion­er , well-inten­tioned though he is, is ask­ing his com­man­ders to do some­thing that can­not be achieved under the present sys­tem. If the Authorities are seri­ous the thing to do is look over­seas at mod­els which work. A good place to start is the American Rico Statute. RICO, is a United States fed­er­al law that pro­vides for extend­ed crim­i­nal penal­ties and a civ­il cause of action for acts per­formed as part of an ongo­ing crim­i­nal orga­ni­za­tion.

In 1970, Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961 – 1968. At the time, Congress’ goal was to elim­i­nate the ill-affects of orga­nized crime on the nation’s econ­o­my. To put it blunt­ly, RICO was intend­ed to destroy the Mafia,it is applied to indi­vid­u­als, busi­ness­es, polit­i­cal protest groups, and ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions. In short, a RICO claim can arise in almost any con­text. source(RicoAct.com llc)RICO address­es long-term, not one-shot, crim­i­nal activ­i­ty. Not only must a RICO claim be based upon crim­i­nal activ­i­ty, but the crim­i­nal acts must con­sti­tute a “pat­tern” of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty. A sin­gle crim­i­nal act, short-term crim­i­nal con­duct, or crim­i­nal actions that bear no rela­tion­ship to each oth­er will not give rise to a RICO claim. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that crim­i­nal actions con­sti­tute a “pat­tern” only if they are relat­ed and con­tin­u­ous. In order to be “relat­ed,” the crim­i­nal acts must involve the same vic­tims, have the same meth­ods of com­mis­sion, involve the same par­tic­i­pants, or be relat­ed in some oth­er fash­ion. A pat­tern may be suf­fi­cient­ly con­tin­u­ous if the crim­i­nal actions occurred over a sub­stan­tial peri­od of time or posed a threat of indef­i­nite dura­tion. The for­mer pat­terns are referred to as closed-end­ed pat­terns; the lat­ter pat­terns are referred to as open-end­ed pat­terns. Accordingly, even if you have been injured by a crim­i­nal act, you will not have a RICO claim unless that crim­i­nal act is part of a larg­er pat­tern of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty.source(RicoAct.com llc).

The Americans rec­og­nized they had a prob­lem and they act­ed deci­sive­ly to ensure that the coun­try would not bow to criminals.This law has more than enough detrac­tors , thats fine, that is how a democ­ra­cy work ‚but the vast major­i­ty of Americans will argue that the law serves the pur­pose for which it was intend­ed. American cities, and small com­mu­ni­ties are not con­trolled by heav­i­ly armed, maraud­ing, blood thirsty gang­sters with law-enforce­ment in retreat.

The JCF can­not not get the nec­es­sary sup­port it needs from Government to refrain from polit­i­cal games­man­ship with National Security. Declare a State Of Public Emergency. Give the secu­ri­ty forces the room they need­ed, to solid­i­fy and hold the grounds they cleared. This is a seri­ous indict­ment on the Government.! The Police for its part is still mired in alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion. Too many of its mem­bers alleged to be involved in crim­i­nal behav­ior. There are also loud accu­sa­tions that some offi­cers are them­selves close­ly asso­ci­at­ed with some of the lead­ing crim­i­nal gangs in the coun­try. The two lead­ing gangs the One Order an alleged JLP proxy and the Klans man a PNP affil­i­ate are at the fore­front of crim­i­nal activ­i­ty, from my sources on the ground in the old cap­i­tal of Spanish Town and it’s envi­rons, over the last sev­er­al years crime in and around Spanish Town has been out of con­trol, even dur­ing the days of for­mer no-non­sense crime fight­ers like Kelso Smalls and oth­ers, Spanish Town’s crim­i­nals had shown a cer­tain tenac­i­ty and deter­mi­na­tion, that required hard-nosed polic­ing, from Sufferers heights, to De la Vega City, from Thawes Pen to Brunswick Avenue, and all places in between crime and Political vio­lence was left unchecked, and in many instances sup­port­ed by politicians.

As a mem­ber of the Rangers Squad out of the Mobile Reserve and lat­er serv­ing at the Constant Spring CIB I am acute­ly aware of what it takes to ensure that the streets are con­trolled by the rule of law. The JCF through favoritism, Political affil­i­a­tion, and just plain incom­pe­tence has caused a once well-regard­ed Agency to be reduced to one of ridicule and shame. Through its inef­fec­tive devel­op­ment of its great­est asset, the peo­ple who vol­un­teer , it has caused the Department to expe­ri­ence one of the high­est rate of attri­tion of any pub­lic body in the Country.

The Jamaican peo­ple have lost count­less mil­lions of tax Dollars to attri­tion. They saw no returns on their invest­ment. Many mem­bers decid­ed not to get caught up in a no win sit­u­a­tion and have left., Some are unable to leave but would at a momen­t’s notice were they giv­en the chance. The solu­tion is not a sim­ple one ‚but one that requires will,vision, and know-how, the Jamaican peo­ple have to avail them­selves to the fact that call­ing the Authorities and report­ing crim­i­nal activ­i­ty [snitch­ing] is in their best Interest. They must under­stand that an atmos­phere of no snitch­ing is fer­tile soil for crim­i­nal­i­ty to flour­ish. They must real­ize that as cit­i­zens with rights, they have respon­si­bil­i­ties to act with cir­cum­spec­tion and responsibility.They must deter­mine to sac­ri­fice for coun­try, resist­ing the instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion of now. [eat a food men­tal­i­ty] .

They must endeav­or to stop cor­rupt­ing pub­lic offi­cials, and they must uni­fy around the com­mon cause of crime erad­i­ca­tion. It is impos­si­ble to gauge how many killers are walk­ing the streets and by-ways of Jamaica, what is cer­tain is that there are hun­dreds pos­si­bly thou­sands. many young men walk­ing the streets have slaugh­tered dozens of peo­ple , raped and killed many women, girls and lit­tle boys, and will nev­er be brought before a Jamaican court to account for any of those crimes.

There are count­less oth­ers whom are involved in mur­der for hire. Through mur­der for hire , they have oth­ers do their killing for them, even in the rare case of an inves­ti­ga­tion they are nev­er named. Subsequently they con­tin­ue to pay oth­ers to exter­mi­nate peo­ple as they see fit.

I get real mad when some for­eign group or indi­vid­ual goes to my coun­try and walk around with some­one from a depressed com­mu­ni­ty , ask a few ques­tions, then pro­ceed to go back to their coun­try and write sto­ries as if they under­stand some­thing about Jamaican crim­i­nal­i­ty . I am equal­ly pissed about their sur­ro­gates like those with­in the crim­i­nal sup­port­ing group Jamaicans for jus­tice. It’s exec­u­tive direc­tor who have no under­stand­ing of what obtains in ghet­tos , oth­er than what they are told ‚or from watch­ing tele­vi­sion. They col­lect state­ments from crim­i­nals or their fam­i­ly mem­bers run with it to their for­eign han­dlers who pro­ceed to slan­der the secu­ri­ty forces and the coun­try. The groups that sup­pos­ed­ly care about human rights are nev­er con­cerned , nev­er do they talk about the col­lec­tive harm and trau­ma that is being vis­it­ed on the Nation as a result of the sick­en­ing slaugh­ter of our inno­cent broth­ers and sis­ters, large­ly by drug and sex crazed demons parad­ing as men. Demons that have no souls, vam­pires if you will, who pride them­selves in the ghoul­ish slaugh­ter of the innocent.

Those are the peo­ple whose rights are guar­an­teed in Jamaica, our Law Enforcement Officials are required to tip toe around these mur­der­ing low lives. Criminal rights groups are heav­i­ly involved in the run­ning of the coun­try’s secu­ri­ty appa­ra­tus. Criminals are like cock­roaches , shine a light they will scam­per for cover,keep the light on and they stay away, those who dare return face the fury of the roach spray !!!!

The much-antic­i­pat­ed iden­ti­ty of the alleged shoot­er of 17-year-old Kingston College school­boy Khajeel Mais is a secret no longer.
The Police has just iden­ti­fied the shoot­er as 50 years old Patrick Powell of Belgrade Loop of St. Andrew.
Powell is report­ed­ly charged with mur­der, ille­gal pos­ses­sion of a firearm, shoot­ing with intent and fail­ure to hand over the weapon to Police.

We will update you as more infor­ma­tion becomes avail­able, how­ev­er we have to ask why is he is not charged with ille­gal pos­ses­sion of Ammunition also, if the weapon is ille­gal then the Ammo is also illegal.

Come on JCF it’s about time you start clos­ing loop­holes and throw­ing the book at these guys,.

Just do the job right.!!!

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Rupert Mudoch was assault­ed today as he and his son James Murdoch sat in a room being grilled by British Lawmakers, .The much vaunt­ed Metropolitan Police who are respon­si­ble for pro­tect­ing the Members of Parliament, wit­ness­es and observers , all of whom amount­ed to a grand total of fifty , are now left to explain how a man car­ry­ing a bag con­tain­ing a plate full of shav­ing foam could have entered the hear­ing room undetected,and unchecked by those charged with pro­tect­ing the occu­pants of the hear­ing room.

Rupert Murdoch and his son James, were appear­ing in front of British Parliamentarians to answer ques­tions about the bur­geon­ing phone hack­ing scan­dal involv­ing one of their pub­li­ca­tions News of the world.

The Metropolitan Police has seen their num­ber one and two peo­ple at the helm step down ‚as a result of this scandal,and are now fur­ther embar­rassed by this inci­dent, which clear­ly is one of gross incompetence.

Jamaica has invest­ed hand­some­ly in bring­ing British Police to Jamaica to help to reshape our Police Department, the qual­i­ty of returns on that Investment has sure­ly not been vis­it­ed by any­one in Authority in Jamaica, the man on the streets how­ev­er may have some­thing to say about how that mon­ey was spent and they sure­ly have their opin­ions on how Mark Shields impact­ed the JCF, beyond show boating,morale eroding,disrespecting, grand­stand­ing, and cock­tail cir­cuit­ing trotting.

The point of this Blog is to point out that Incompetence is not con­fined to any par­tic­u­lar group, the Colonialist men­tal­i­ty per­va­sive in Jamaica, is seri­ous­ly test­ed here, with these inci­dents and alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion and incom­pe­tence on the part of British Police The com­mon wis­dom seem to sug­gest that if it is done by some­one oth­er than us, it is done cor­rect­ly , there is evi­dence that would tend to sup­port this men­tal­i­ty, how­ev­er I am aware that giv­en the tools no one is bet­ter than us when we put our mind to it.

I hope we will look at these inci­dents and real­ize that the answers to the prob­lems we face lies with us , and no one else, we will have to fix them, and no amount of British or American accent will, it is up to us.

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The Jamaican Police up to the time of this post still has not released the name of the shoot­er in their cus­tody accused of killing 17 years old school­boy Khajeel Mais in an appar­ent case of road rage gone ter­ri­bly wrong .
Young Mais, an inno­cent vic­tim, rid­ing in the back of a Cab to a fête at a high School, became the vic­tim of a ter­ri­ble case of road rage when the cab in which he was a pas­sen­ger alleged­ly ran into the back of a BMW-x6 sport util­i­ty vehicle.
Its is alleged that the dri­ver of the sport util­i­ty vehi­cle emerged from the vehi­cle fir­ing at the cab, the cab dri­ver it is report­ed turned his cab around and head­ed in the oppo­site direc­tion ‚with the x6 dri­ver still firing.
It is the trag­ic tale of how a promis­ing young life was snuffed out in a sense­less act of total madness.
The Police for their part has stead­fast­ly refused to name the shoot­er, even though it is report­ed he fled the Island for the United States, has since returned to the Country ‚and from their own account, is in custody.
This case has gen­er­at­ed wide­spread out­cry, and cor­rect­ly so, there are also accu­sa­tions of cov­er up and cor­rup­tion lev­eled at the Police in the way they have han­dled this case, in a man­ner that is incon­sis­tent with their (modus operan­di )mode of oper­a­tion, sim­ply put ‚the police have a duty to inform the pub­lic of the progress, of the case, they work for the pub­lic, and the rea­sons giv­en by sev­er­al per­sons with­in the Department includ­ing the Commissioner sim­ply does not add up.
We are well aware that there are cir­cum­stances that pre­vent the Police from divulging every­thing they know ‚we are also aware there are ways to keep the Public apprised with­out jeop­ar­diz­ing the case.
The Police has by their actions, shift­ed some of the pub­lic’s anger from the sus­pect onto them­selves, some­thing the Department can ill afford to do.
How say you.?