The JDF Acted Expeditiously The JCF Should Follow Suit…

The Jamaica Defense Force, long one of the nation’s last insti­tu­tions of decen­cy and deco­rum, (to the extent that decen­cy and deco­rum still exist), has report­ed­ly part­ed com­pa­ny with Captain Omaine Morgan, who has been linked to the con­tro­ver­sial Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James.
You know the one, the church of the now deceased, ex-con Kevin Smith.
One won­ders why mem­bers of the secu­ri­ty forces are con­stant­ly expect­ed to oper­ate at a high­er stan­dard of decen­cy and deco­rum than their civil­ian leaders?
Will the politi­cians and oth­er high­ly-placed peo­ple asso­ci­at­ed with the con­tro­ver­sial pas­tor and his church come out, self-iden­ti­fy, and step aside from what­ev­er high-pro­file port­fo­lios they hold as well?
I won’t hold my breath for that to hap­pen, so there is that.
At the same time, I am won­der­ing what is behind the secre­cy with the Police depart­ment? Why has the JCF not fol­lowed suit with the police­woman who was also alleged­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Kevin Smith, pro­vid­ed uni­formed escort along with Captain Morgan to Pastor Smith, and is report­ed to have allowed Smith access to her ser­vice pis­tol, clear­ly fir­ing offenses?
Why is the JCF always last to the dance even when the dance is free?
Oh, wait .…..
A team from the Police high com­mand is con­duct­ing a high-lev­el probe. (sar­casm) I know this will take time as much as it is tak­ing to deter­mine whether or not a police offi­cer did cut the locks of a woman at the Four Paths Police Station.(even more sarcasm)

Nzinga King, claimed police cut her locks at the Four Paths Police Station in Clarendon…

The JCF is bleed­ing approx­i­mate­ly 600 mem­bers through attri­tion each year; it is prob­a­bly not a bad idea for the force to use that process to force some of the bad apples from its ranks.
By mov­ing stead­fast­ly against offi­cers like this female offi­cer, the force would send a clear mes­sage that those kinds of asso­ci­a­tions will not be tolerated.
Bad recruit­ing and poor back­ground checks by the JCF have done immea­sur­able dam­age to the force; addi­tion­al­ly, like oth­er women in the wider soci­ety, far too many female offi­cers have fall­en vic­tim to the fast mon­ey lure of the crim­i­nal underworld.
If this offi­cer left her ser­vice weapon in the care of KevinSmith or any­one else asso­ci­at­ed with the path­way church, there is cer­tain­ly no rea­son for foot-drag­ging by the JCF.
Follow the lead of the JDF and save some face.

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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.