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Senior cop wants terrorism law for attacks on police and tourists
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Posted: 6/2/2009 9:32:03 AM
A senior cop, disheartened by the loss of a colleague, is calling on the Government to enact a terrorism law to deal with persons found guilty of harming police officers and tourists.
Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, second in charge of the Joint Taskforce, said a law is necessary to assist the security forces in their fight against the “cancer” of crime and violence in the island.
“When criminals attack the security forces they are attacking the security of the country. When you attack tourists, you are attacking a major foreign exchange earner for the country. It is a clear case of terrorism,” said Lewis.
“We cannot afford this and as such I recommend to the Government to enact a terrorism act to deal with the shooting and murdering of members of the security forces. They should also include in this act the attack of tourists on our shores, the importation of guns and the harbouring of criminals or fugitives,” He said.
Lewis made his call in the eulogy of Constable Kevin ‘Metro’ Tulloch, of the Joint Task-force/ Mobile Reserve, who was shot dead and buried last Thursday.
Constable Tulloch is the third of five police officers to be killed violently since the start of the year.
The country was shocked also by the armed hijacking of a Canjet Airline Aeroplane loaded with Canadian passengers at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James late last month; and when gunmen opened fire at rented motor car transporting Canadian tourists in Kingston earlier this month. None of the tourists were injured in either incidents.
— Corey Robinson.
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Posted: 6/2/2009 9:32:03 AM
A senior cop, disheartened by the loss of a colleague, is calling on the Government to enact a terrorism law to deal with persons found guilty of harming police officers and tourists.
Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis, second in charge of the Joint Taskforce, said a law is necessary to assist the security forces in their fight against the “cancer” of crime and violence in the island.
“When criminals attack the security forces they are attacking the security of the country. When you attack tourists, you are attacking a major foreign exchange earner for the country. It is a clear case of terrorism,” said Lewis.
“We cannot afford this and as such I recommend to the Government to enact a terrorism act to deal with the shooting and murdering of members of the security forces. They should also include in this act the attack of tourists on our shores, the importation of guns and the harbouring of criminals or fugitives,” He said.
Lewis made his call in the eulogy of Constable Kevin ‘Metro’ Tulloch, of the Joint Task-force/ Mobile Reserve, who was shot dead and buried last Thursday.
Constable Tulloch is the third of five police officers to be killed violently since the start of the year.
The country was shocked also by the armed hijacking of a Canjet Airline Aeroplane loaded with Canadian passengers at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James late last month; and when gunmen opened fire at rented motor car transporting Canadian tourists in Kingston earlier this month. None of the tourists were injured in either incidents.
— Corey Robinson.
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