Waste to hire more police

However, one could see that despite increasing manpower in the past the problems are still with us and at a much higher and destructive rate.

All the signs are that policemen have passed their sell-by date and our police system needs outside help and officers need proper training and a sense of civic duty and patriotism. The police need moral guidance and good and respectful effective management, and this can only be obtained from having an outside commissioner of police and a team of his supporters. Locally born and bred policemen have had decades to enforce law and order and halt the widespread criminal activities and general lawlessness. So far they have failed. Therefore, adding more men to an already incompetent force will make no difference whatsoever. The lack of essential qualities in many of our policemen is evident by the amount of so-called trained officers now jumping on the criminal bandwagon. The police have also become a law onto themselves and need to be brought back into line. This is evident in two major events in recent years: the apparent forcing out of commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and his deputy, Jack Ewatski, and the islandwide roadblock in 2015, which brought the country to a near standstill.

GA MARQUES via email