Dear Editor,
All cops should be defined as being on duty all the time because you have to take some action if you see an offence being committed.
If you don't you can be brought before the court and it's a very serious offence. A lot of cops don't carry home a firearm but are still expected to take some action if they observe criminal activity. And if in doing so they are killed, then you will hear the term “Off-Duty Officer”.
This is so because the government pays less death benefit to the dependents of a so-called “Off-Duty Officer”. It's a thankless job.
You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The question of when a cop is off duty has never been defined, not even in the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
A cop’s job is very tough and full of intricacies.
Silk ‘the smooth one'
All cops should be defined as being on duty all the time because you have to take some action if you see an offence being committed.
If you don't you can be brought before the court and it's a very serious offence. A lot of cops don't carry home a firearm but are still expected to take some action if they observe criminal activity. And if in doing so they are killed, then you will hear the term “Off-Duty Officer”.
This is so because the government pays less death benefit to the dependents of a so-called “Off-Duty Officer”. It's a thankless job.
You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. The question of when a cop is off duty has never been defined, not even in the Jamaica Constabulary Force.
A cop’s job is very tough and full of intricacies.
Silk ‘the smooth one'