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Admiral Lewin shoots back at critics of crime plan
HORACE HINES Observer staff reporter
Monday, June 09, 2008
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The police commissioner has shot back at critics of the security ministry and the Jamaica Constabulary over the absence of a crime plan, saying he had revealed one two months after taking the job.
"On the 17th of December, I took over as commissioner of police and sometime in February, I outlined the crime plan at a press conference. I didn't just speak about it, but it was presented in a package to the media," Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin insisted.
The projected outcome of these plans were also disclosed, he told a Police (Civilian Oversight) Authority public forum in Westmoreland Friday night, Commissioner Lewin said that he had established four strategic priorities for crime fighting for this year. These were:
. Targeting criminal networks and bringing more offenders to book
. General policing to reduce crime, disorder, arms and vulnerability to criminals
. Community policing to engage with communities to increase their confidence in the JCF
. Building up the force's capacity
Anticipating that the critics would say he was bringing nothing new, the police commissioner said: "Each time you hear that something is enhanced you hear we heard that before, but these are the tools we have to work with. It is the same police officers, it is the same force but what you have to do is use some of the tools that you have in the tool box. There is a finite number of tools in the law enforcement tool box."
He acknowledged that there were "very, very dangerous criminals out there" and pointed out that the police were forced to work on two tracks - working on the finding the appropriate crime-fighting initiatives and simultaneously attending to violent eruptions.
"We have to be at same time working with an old plant and trying to modernise and improve as we go along. So we have to work on two tracks we have to work on two trajectories," Rear Admiral Lewin explained.
He used the illustration of a "vehicle running away down hill and you trying to stop it". "It is going to push you (back) for a little while until you take hold and you stop it and hopefully you start pushing it back up that hill. It is a process."
Responding to a question from the floor over his sudden resignation then withdrawal, the commissioner said: "The answer will come in the full length of time."
At the beginning of his address, he had stated: "I have not gone anywhere. I am still here."
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html..._CRIME_PLAN.asp
HORACE HINES Observer staff reporter
Monday, June 09, 2008
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland - The police commissioner has shot back at critics of the security ministry and the Jamaica Constabulary over the absence of a crime plan, saying he had revealed one two months after taking the job.
"On the 17th of December, I took over as commissioner of police and sometime in February, I outlined the crime plan at a press conference. I didn't just speak about it, but it was presented in a package to the media," Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin insisted.
The projected outcome of these plans were also disclosed, he told a Police (Civilian Oversight) Authority public forum in Westmoreland Friday night, Commissioner Lewin said that he had established four strategic priorities for crime fighting for this year. These were:
. Targeting criminal networks and bringing more offenders to book
. General policing to reduce crime, disorder, arms and vulnerability to criminals
. Community policing to engage with communities to increase their confidence in the JCF
. Building up the force's capacity
Anticipating that the critics would say he was bringing nothing new, the police commissioner said: "Each time you hear that something is enhanced you hear we heard that before, but these are the tools we have to work with. It is the same police officers, it is the same force but what you have to do is use some of the tools that you have in the tool box. There is a finite number of tools in the law enforcement tool box."
He acknowledged that there were "very, very dangerous criminals out there" and pointed out that the police were forced to work on two tracks - working on the finding the appropriate crime-fighting initiatives and simultaneously attending to violent eruptions.
"We have to be at same time working with an old plant and trying to modernise and improve as we go along. So we have to work on two tracks we have to work on two trajectories," Rear Admiral Lewin explained.
He used the illustration of a "vehicle running away down hill and you trying to stop it". "It is going to push you (back) for a little while until you take hold and you stop it and hopefully you start pushing it back up that hill. It is a process."
Responding to a question from the floor over his sudden resignation then withdrawal, the commissioner said: "The answer will come in the full length of time."
At the beginning of his address, he had stated: "I have not gone anywhere. I am still here."
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html..._CRIME_PLAN.asp
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