These Officers Were Not Threatened They Were Murdered.….…..We Honor Their Service.

I was nev­er ever an admir­ing fan of the Police High Command, those famil­iar with my rants are aware of my dis­dain for them. One of the rea­sons I quit the force after only ten(10) years was that I was­n’t par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in aspir­ing to be a mem­ber of that fra­ter­ni­ty. I was not inter­est­ed in being any­one’s tool. I was not inter­est­ed in tak­ing orders which was anti­thet­i­cal to my oath. I was not inter­est­ed in being any­one’s yard-boy. I was not inter­est­ed in polit­i­cal affil­i­a­tions for pro­mo­tions. I was not inter­est­ed in fol­low­ing behind Jamaica’s cor­rupt politicians(of either par­ty) like a domes­ti­cat­ed Mutt. And I was cer­tain­ly not inter­est­ed in bit­ing my tongue when some­one pissed me off.

Oh in case you are won­der­ing about the Police High Command those were the char­ac­ter­is­tics which defined the Police High Command and they still are today. Promotions and plum assign­ments are tied to polit­i­cal alle­giance and servi­tude. It is easy to under­stand why Rank and file Police offi­cers get no respect on the streets when the top-tier of the force are mere tools of servitude.

In a report yes­ter­day Terrence Williams made unsub­stan­ti­at­ed alle­ga­tions that Police offi­cers are involved in mak­ing threats against his staff. Williams is the com­bat­ive pow­er-hun­gry Commissioner of (inde­com) the police over­sight agency. In what was a shock­ing dis­play of reck­less­ness Williams assert­ed that Police offi­cers were involved yet pro­duced no evi­dence to back up his claim. At the same time Williams made the claims, he assert­ed that he had a chum­my rela­tion­ship with the Police high com­mand . Of course why not ? The police high com­mand was always a bunch of cow­ard­ly rum bel­ly lack­eys who nev­er had a prob­lem sell­ing out their sub­or­di­nates for a pat on the back and a drink of Rum. I am still nau­se­at­ed think­ing about the sub­mis­sive nature of some of them twen­ty four years later.

Neither the so-called high com­mand nor the Federation is worth a damn as far as the inter­est of the rank and file are con­cerned. It was always the young offi­cers, gung-ho and full of brava­do, who brought vital­i­ty to the force. The old­er mem­bers of the Federation and the high com­mand are only inter­est­ed in cur­ry­ing favor for pro­mo­tions and spe­cial assignments.
Williams assert­ed unequiv­o­cal­ly, that Police offi­cers were involved in mak­ing threats against his staff, he went as far as to nail down the age group of those he sus­pect­ed. The only thing miss­ing from William’s wild and fan­tas­tic alle­ga­tions was the most impor­tant thing .…..Proof !!!
Williams and his lack­eys were crafty enough to pla­cate the High com­mand with sweet plat­i­tudes in order to win their silence ‚while he lam­bast and lam­poon the offi­cers who place their lives on the line for an ungrate­ful repro­bate nation. Quote : The threats have been brought to the atten­tion of the Police High Command, and (INDECOM) has bol­stered its inter­nal secu­ri­ty frame­work and risk assessment.
Williams’ assis­tant Hamish Campbell said quote: ” Making the inci­dents known to the High Command is one of the best ways to pro­tect (indecom’s) inves­ti­ga­tors and staff. “There is coöper­a­tion with the senior police offi­cers about it. We have dis­cussed it, we have engaged with them,” .
Of course the sell outs who head the Force nev­er both­ered to request that Williams pro­vide proof if he intend­ed to go pub­lic with his wild claims. And real­ly why would they ask him to pro­vide proof? They nev­er cared about the younger offi­cers and they don’t now.

In prepar­ing for this Article I decid­ed to look at the web­page of the JCF . I also looked at the page of the Police Federation. as well as their Facebook pages. Despite the trag­ic loss of life of four (4) offi­cers over a peri­od of just days nei­ther of the web­sites have a memo­r­i­al for these offi­cers. In fact nei­ther their web­sites nor their Facebook pages pro­vide a link to a sto­ry which speaks to the offi­cers who fell both in the line of duty or oth­ers who died nat­u­ral­ly or under cloudy and yet to be deter­mined cir­cum­stances .There is no memo­r­i­al in the coun­try which hon­ors their sac­ri­fice but it is incom­pre­hen­si­ble and uncon­scionable that nei­ther the Police Department nor the Federation has enough com­mon sense to hon­or offi­cers with a sim­ple memo­r­i­al on their web­site, or on their Facebook pages.

As a sign of my sup­port for the fall­en offi­cers who give their lives for an unde­serv­ing pop­u­la­tion. As a sign of my sup­port for the fam­i­lies from all across the Island who so will­ing­ly give up their sons and daugh­ters in ser­vice to our Country this pub­li­ca­tion hon­ors your sac­ri­fice and com­mit­ment to our Country. As a small token of that com­mit­ment we will, start­ing today, begin by high­light­ing the last four offi­cers who gave their lives recently.
I hon­or and cel­e­brate the sac­ri­fice of all of these heroes whether the Police High Command and the Federation real­ize their sac­ri­fice or not .
Rest in Peace .….…
It is time for mem­bers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to refuse to car­ry the coffins of Ministers of Government and those the Government lift up as stal­warts with­in the Jamaican soci­ety. Frankly I have nev­er seen any of those soci­ety big-wigs at the funer­als of Police Officers.
These are the peo­ple who clam­or for (inde­com) let (inde­com) car­ry their coffins.
There are many ways to opt out of those duties you are police offi­cers. If the Country demon­stra­bly decide it does not appre­ci­ate you then it’s time that you look out for yourselves.