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Another Supt off to 'Never Never Land'
published: Tuesday | April 6, 2004
By Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer
ANOTHER POLICE superintendent has been transferred to the Inspectorate Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, bringing to four, the number of superintendents transferred there since January.
Superintendent Artice Brown-Getton, the 59-year-old police mediator in last October's controversial police shootings in Flankers, St. James, which left two senior citizens dead, has reportedly fallen out of grace with the police top brass.
The Inspectorate Division, also called 'Never Never Land', is considered a dumping ground for gazetted police officers who have reached the twilight of their careers whether through age or a perceived or unproven misdeed.
An upset Supt. Brown-Getton, who leaves the force on May 25, this year, after serving more than 37 years, told The Gleaner yesterday that while she knew the Police Commissioner has the right to transfer anyone at his pleasure, she was unhappy with how her removal from the Kingston Eastern Division was conducted.
"I have to be guided by his (Commissioner Francis Forbes) decision but I don't respect the way it (the transfer) was done," she said, adding that she is still not sure what precipitated her latest fate.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID
"I don't sell gun licence. I don't steal, and I am not mixed up," she said. "I don't know what I did that I should not have done or what I did not do that I should have done."
Since the year began, a number of gazetted officers have found themselves with little to do at 'Never Never Land'.
Between January and last month, Commissioner Forbes transferred Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley from the Kingston Western Police Division to that division. He also transferred Superintendent Glenford Hudson of the St. Catherine South Division there, following the disappearance of two guns, including an M-16 rifle, from the Greater Portmore Police Station's armoury.
In the latest case last month, Superintendent Claude Samuels was sent to 'Never Never Land' from the St. Andrew South Division amidst controversy surrounding the issuing of gun licences to persons of 'questionable character'. He has since opted for retirement.
Asked last night to comment on the message being sent by the four transfers so far this year, Supt. Ionie Ramsay-Nelson, head of the Constabulary Communi-cation Network (CCN) told The Gleaner she was not aware that someone commits a misdeed whenever he or she is transferred to the Inspectorate Division.
DISSATISFACTION
"I don't know that when the Commissioner transfers persons, we have an obligation to discuss it with the media," she said.
Yesterday, Supt. Brown-Getton expressed her dissatisfaction at how her transfer was handled, being informed second-hand, she said.
"I am hurt to the core. My children are hurt," Supt. Brown-Getton said.
A senior police source yesterday expressed dismay at the way the superintendent had been treated.
"Generally, an officer being transferred would be given at least a two-week notice, but she was given only three days," the source said.
Supt. Brown-Getton had been stationed at the Kingston Eastern Division where she was commanding officer for nearly two years. Before then, she was in charge of the Flying Squad and the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, formerly known as the Rape Investigation Unit which she co-founded in 1989.
published: Tuesday | April 6, 2004
By Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer
ANOTHER POLICE superintendent has been transferred to the Inspectorate Division of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, bringing to four, the number of superintendents transferred there since January.
Superintendent Artice Brown-Getton, the 59-year-old police mediator in last October's controversial police shootings in Flankers, St. James, which left two senior citizens dead, has reportedly fallen out of grace with the police top brass.
The Inspectorate Division, also called 'Never Never Land', is considered a dumping ground for gazetted police officers who have reached the twilight of their careers whether through age or a perceived or unproven misdeed.
An upset Supt. Brown-Getton, who leaves the force on May 25, this year, after serving more than 37 years, told The Gleaner yesterday that while she knew the Police Commissioner has the right to transfer anyone at his pleasure, she was unhappy with how her removal from the Kingston Eastern Division was conducted.
"I have to be guided by his (Commissioner Francis Forbes) decision but I don't respect the way it (the transfer) was done," she said, adding that she is still not sure what precipitated her latest fate.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID
"I don't sell gun licence. I don't steal, and I am not mixed up," she said. "I don't know what I did that I should not have done or what I did not do that I should have done."
Since the year began, a number of gazetted officers have found themselves with little to do at 'Never Never Land'.
Between January and last month, Commissioner Forbes transferred Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley from the Kingston Western Police Division to that division. He also transferred Superintendent Glenford Hudson of the St. Catherine South Division there, following the disappearance of two guns, including an M-16 rifle, from the Greater Portmore Police Station's armoury.
In the latest case last month, Superintendent Claude Samuels was sent to 'Never Never Land' from the St. Andrew South Division amidst controversy surrounding the issuing of gun licences to persons of 'questionable character'. He has since opted for retirement.
Asked last night to comment on the message being sent by the four transfers so far this year, Supt. Ionie Ramsay-Nelson, head of the Constabulary Communi-cation Network (CCN) told The Gleaner she was not aware that someone commits a misdeed whenever he or she is transferred to the Inspectorate Division.
DISSATISFACTION
"I don't know that when the Commissioner transfers persons, we have an obligation to discuss it with the media," she said.
Yesterday, Supt. Brown-Getton expressed her dissatisfaction at how her transfer was handled, being informed second-hand, she said.
"I am hurt to the core. My children are hurt," Supt. Brown-Getton said.
A senior police source yesterday expressed dismay at the way the superintendent had been treated.
"Generally, an officer being transferred would be given at least a two-week notice, but she was given only three days," the source said.
Supt. Brown-Getton had been stationed at the Kingston Eastern Division where she was commanding officer for nearly two years. Before then, she was in charge of the Flying Squad and the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse, formerly known as the Rape Investigation Unit which she co-founded in 1989.