Pay cops fortnightly, reduce temptation

Dear Editor,

When will the Government find a solution to the police corruption problem? Are they even entertaining suggestions to solving the problem? If they are, then I have one.

Why does the Government pay its civil servants once a month? Most employers in the United States pay their workers twice per month and those workers have a hard time stretching that money for two weeks. I can only imagine how hard it is to for Jamaican civil servants to stretch their meagre salary for a month. So, here you have a police officer working the streets, broke, and still has two weeks to go before he/she gets paid again. With most working people live from one pay cheque to the next, can you see how easy it is for them to get corrupted?

The Government needs to find a way to ensure that at least those in law enforcement get paid twice a month. This will not make every crooked cop straight, but it will keep the honest ones honest.

I hope this suggestion, like most from the Jamaican Diaspora, does not fall on deaf ears.

Denzil Martin

denvilmartin@yahoo.com

Pay cops fortnightly, reduce temptation

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