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Richard Edwards says:

Yes, corruption in the force can be brought under control, but we need to bring in people from the outside who are not politically connected and are simply there to just do their jobs. We can't have the police investigate the police, because, as everyone knows, the police will defend one of their own. And, make no mistake, had it not been for the importation for people like Les Green and Justin Felice, most of the cops now under investigation would never be, at least that is my opinion.

Neutral Justice says:

'Let's ban all police units and Jamaica will be made safer'. It's an old cliché that the police is disliked by the citizens of Jamaica; that's a lie, the Jamaican police force is one of the most abused police force by its citizens in the Caribbean. The criminals who murder and plunge the country into chaos are the ones to be blamed.

TrevDiMan says:

That there are corrupt cops within the police force is well established. What to do about them is also easy - catch them and let them face Lady Justice. If you are simply going to retire them and, supposedly, let them be eligible for a pension then it's almost like paying them to be criminals with a uniform and weapon(s) sanctioned by the state to wreak havoc on the innocent.

We know that the folks from Scotland Yard were brought in not only to impart new, improved and enhanced policing techniques but to help weed out the corruptive influences in the JCF. The truth, however, is that until the Police Commissioner has the power to fire and discipline his subordinates then only so much can be done to arrest this problem.

Errol says:

We can safely say all cops are not bad; we can also safely say a lot of cops are very bad/corrupt. What kind of police force are we running in Jamaica?

Ommugabe says:

If a society is fundamentally lawless, then it must select police from among the lawless citizens. It's common sense. Sure, it may seem ironic that those who are tasked to maintain law, order and integrity in the society are themselves lawless and out of order. However, only those of narrow vision will be sucked in by the apparent irony of the law-breaking law enforcer. We need to see the big picture of Jamaican society! We need to appreciate and understand the hundreds of years of Jamaican history of crimes of all types against humanity! Jamaica's present is very much a product of its past, which was always lawless, from the ethnic cleansing of the Tainos to kidnapping and enslavement of the Africans to present. Jamaica has always been a paradise, but only in the fertile imagination of the deluded.