Dear Editor,
I think it is a misconception that an increase in the number of police and soldiers in St James will control murders. What it needs is just a few genuine, highly intelligent members of the force with good public relations; good public relations for information to flow to them.
In this context, instructive is the saying that, “It is not the size of the gun, but the effect of the bullet.”
I write as one who served the force for 11 years and two months, resigning as sub-officer in charge of crime for Manchester and by extension St Elizabeth and Clarendon after serving Cross Roads Criminal Investigation Department (CID), sent from there to reconstruct Clarendon CID Headquarters, and from there to Mandeville CID Divisional Headquarters; appointed detective without having to attend a detective training course, which was compulsory for others to be appointed detective.
While at Cross Roads, I frequently communicated with then Detective Sergeant Brenton Joseph, sub-officer in charge of crime, Central, perhaps the most effective detective this country has ever seen. He told me he detected all the crime from his desk, never on patrol, and the record will show that it is after he retired crime began to escalate in Kingston.
Incidentally, when in Manchester, he came from Kingston with sufficient information concerning authors of a murder and conspiracy to murder in Manchester. The information secured convictions.
Owen S Crosbie
Mandeville, Manchester
oss@cwjamaica.com
I think it is a misconception that an increase in the number of police and soldiers in St James will control murders. What it needs is just a few genuine, highly intelligent members of the force with good public relations; good public relations for information to flow to them.
In this context, instructive is the saying that, “It is not the size of the gun, but the effect of the bullet.”
I write as one who served the force for 11 years and two months, resigning as sub-officer in charge of crime for Manchester and by extension St Elizabeth and Clarendon after serving Cross Roads Criminal Investigation Department (CID), sent from there to reconstruct Clarendon CID Headquarters, and from there to Mandeville CID Divisional Headquarters; appointed detective without having to attend a detective training course, which was compulsory for others to be appointed detective.
While at Cross Roads, I frequently communicated with then Detective Sergeant Brenton Joseph, sub-officer in charge of crime, Central, perhaps the most effective detective this country has ever seen. He told me he detected all the crime from his desk, never on patrol, and the record will show that it is after he retired crime began to escalate in Kingston.
Incidentally, when in Manchester, he came from Kingston with sufficient information concerning authors of a murder and conspiracy to murder in Manchester. The information secured convictions.
Owen S Crosbie
Mandeville, Manchester
oss@cwjamaica.com