Cops need state-of-the-art equipment
published: Thursday | May 19, 2005

THE EDITOR, Sir:

IT HAS become increasingly obvious to me that with the introduction of several new crime shows on television, it is only criminals who are educating themselves on how to get away with their wrongdoings. Does the police commissioner watch television and realise that his team is being shafted by the government of this country? How are the police supposed to compete with an increasingly educated and determined crime force? They have no respectable crime labs for adequate and cost-efficient DNA analysis, and even so, the criminals are learning how to avoid leaving as much evidence as they would have before. The provision of state-of-the-art equipment and the comprehensive training of the officers to make use of them is imperative.

We are no longer dealing with the ridiculous, clumsy stick-up artists of the past. The criminals of today are experienced and learned in how to elude detection by police. It is therefore the responsibility of the Government and the Commissioner of Police to ensure that our security forces are always kept steps ahead of the criminals with crime detection methods and equipment befitting a twenty-first century police force.

We must invest in the crime fighting process, otherwise soon enough, as is becoming evident in May Pen, the criminals will run us all out of our beloved island home.

I am etc.,

DANILA CHEN

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Ocho Rios P.O., St. Ann

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