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Sep 16, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am fast moving past incredulity at the actions or lack of action by the police. Imagine a man is shot and killed and the alleged assailant is given a grace period to leave the country before an all-points bulletin is released one week after. During the 1990s another man pumped fourteen shots into the chest of another at a highway location and did not face the courts for his actions. It would surely boggle the less cynical mind when people of a certain persuasion are allowed immunities and privileges before the law while others are profiled, arrested and tortured in the name of public appeasement. How long must we endure a Police Force where it is business as usual when a man is shot and killed, and the police response is that the shooter(s) was attacked with the ubiquitous cutlass? It is no longer surprising when the witnesses’ version differ markedly from that provided by the Police Public Relations people.
I am no longer surprised when an accused trafficker in persons can make a claim of assault and theft against an internationally recognized crusader months after the alleged incident, and the police move with unusual alacrity to arrest, embarrass and humiliate her. I ask myself how is it that the police can cause a case of trafficking against another person who is well connected to be dismissed for want of evidence when there is competent legal advice available in the Director of Public Prosecutions’ Chambers? Do these investigators face questions related to the availability and location of witnesses; the possibility that a case will fail without credible corroborating witnesses, circumstantial evidence, and other material factors? I refuse to believe that the DPP would hesitate to explore those areas in light of the amazing frequency with which Magistrates throw out poorly investigated and presented matters. It is time for an internal examination or audit be conducted with respect to the operations of the Criminal Investigations Department. We need to know what criteria exist for someone to become a detective; are detectives exposed to any type of ethics training; what level of supervisory oversight is provided to investigations; how are exculpatory circumstances etc. treated. These questions should be fairly easy for the public relations section to handle in view of its proclivity to respond to the most harmless of criticisms.
It is no secret that in the absence of the usual suspects that the police appear clueless and as an act of desperation would latch onto those whom it is believed are without the means to drop a serious lawsuit on the Force.
It is also a fact that the police will continue to act as they are doing because there is no real desire for change; personal aggrandizement informs the attitude and behavior of those in authority. Do these people really think that those whose largesse they enjoy respect them? The Force is what it is, and as long as it can be made to do the bidding of those with power, and deep pockets it will be more of the same.
Sylvia St Romain
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Pitiful letter.
Police dammed no matter what they do.
I surly think this letter is too complex and complicated for the commissioner of police and the police force in general