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Police officer comes clean
published: Sunday | December 24, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody yJQdZ="true">
Police and military personnel packing over 1,868 pounds of ganja seized in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, during an operation led by Operation Kingfish in August. Some corrupt police get involved in the drug trade. - File
"For years and years they will sit down and operate in league with the dealers and you will never know because they don't show their wealth as our male counterparts do."
"I enlisted in the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the 1980s, and from as early as training school, we were taught to adhere to the esprit de corps code, where no matter what a member of our training squad did we were not expected to pass information on to our superiors. we were actually told that they did not like persons that gave them information on others.
"In the case where a rule was broken and the offending student constable could not be identified, the entire squad would be punished. We would beam with pride during our punishment, knowing we stood up for our colleague and the code.
Simulation exercises
"Supporting an offending student constable in his wrongful acts would create an expectation that the courtesy would be returned if required. Any member of a squad that decided to stand up for discipline and refused to support the breaking of the rules would be isolated.
"We were told that the things we are taught in training would not always correspond with the occurrences in the real world. Therefore, the simulation exercises became irrelevant and were just done to enhance our chances of getting better pass marks in our exams.
"The keeping of the station diary is one of the duties that a lot of emphasis was placed on, because this book is used to document the actions and movement of police personnel, dates and times of occurrences and properties in the possession of the police, including for safekeeping and otherwisel.
"During the tour of duty one morning, we stopped a Bedford truck, driving along the main thoroughfare in our police division towards the wharfs.
"The sub-officer sat in the car while the woman constable stood on the outside; I did the routine checks of the documents. I noticed, however, that the driver was acting suspiciously. I called the sub-officer and proceeded to search the vehicle, (which) was filled with compressed ganja.
"I asked the driver a few questions, but, realising we were 'freshers', he turned to the corporal and started to call some names that I would later learn are prominent business men in our society, even today.
"The acting corporal came and told us to wait in the car. about half an hour later, the truck drove off and the sub-officer came and sat in the car. he gave us $15,000 each, and told us that this was our baptism in the real world.
"I asked no questions, neither did my fellow junior colleague. making so much money in one night answered everything. One thing I knew was that for the acting corporal to have given us so much money, he would have kept a lot for himself. I wanted to start my own game.
Methods
"On another occasion, he demonstrated some of the methods he used when collecting money.
"After my orientation in the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), I was assigned to the department permanently. My fellow junior colleague was assigned to the general office as the firearm clerk.
"Some, now highly placed officers in the JCF, were involved in the drug-trafficking trade, the divisional detective inspector (DDI) at the time, recruited about three of us to offer protection and even physically load ganja planes or boats. By then I had done about six yea
Police officer comes clean
published: Sunday | December 24, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody yJQdZ="true">
Police and military personnel packing over 1,868 pounds of ganja seized in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, during an operation led by Operation Kingfish in August. Some corrupt police get involved in the drug trade. - File
"For years and years they will sit down and operate in league with the dealers and you will never know because they don't show their wealth as our male counterparts do."
"I enlisted in the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the 1980s, and from as early as training school, we were taught to adhere to the esprit de corps code, where no matter what a member of our training squad did we were not expected to pass information on to our superiors. we were actually told that they did not like persons that gave them information on others.
"In the case where a rule was broken and the offending student constable could not be identified, the entire squad would be punished. We would beam with pride during our punishment, knowing we stood up for our colleague and the code.
Simulation exercises
"Supporting an offending student constable in his wrongful acts would create an expectation that the courtesy would be returned if required. Any member of a squad that decided to stand up for discipline and refused to support the breaking of the rules would be isolated.
"We were told that the things we are taught in training would not always correspond with the occurrences in the real world. Therefore, the simulation exercises became irrelevant and were just done to enhance our chances of getting better pass marks in our exams.
"The keeping of the station diary is one of the duties that a lot of emphasis was placed on, because this book is used to document the actions and movement of police personnel, dates and times of occurrences and properties in the possession of the police, including for safekeeping and otherwisel.
"During the tour of duty one morning, we stopped a Bedford truck, driving along the main thoroughfare in our police division towards the wharfs.
"The sub-officer sat in the car while the woman constable stood on the outside; I did the routine checks of the documents. I noticed, however, that the driver was acting suspiciously. I called the sub-officer and proceeded to search the vehicle, (which) was filled with compressed ganja.
"I asked the driver a few questions, but, realising we were 'freshers', he turned to the corporal and started to call some names that I would later learn are prominent business men in our society, even today.
"The acting corporal came and told us to wait in the car. about half an hour later, the truck drove off and the sub-officer came and sat in the car. he gave us $15,000 each, and told us that this was our baptism in the real world.
"I asked no questions, neither did my fellow junior colleague. making so much money in one night answered everything. One thing I knew was that for the acting corporal to have given us so much money, he would have kept a lot for himself. I wanted to start my own game.
Methods
"On another occasion, he demonstrated some of the methods he used when collecting money.
"After my orientation in the Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB), I was assigned to the department permanently. My fellow junior colleague was assigned to the general office as the firearm clerk.
"Some, now highly placed officers in the JCF, were involved in the drug-trafficking trade, the divisional detective inspector (DDI) at the time, recruited about three of us to offer protection and even physically load ganja planes or boats. By then I had done about six yea
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