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| Commissioner Antony Johnson |
I just received information from another good source in the Jamaica Constabulary Force regarding the post about army persons being appointed to senior ranks in the JCF. The source said, "Every member there have been sworn police officers from the start. They were beneficiaries of an Officer Commander's Course that the JDF quite kindly offered us spaces on. This course was specifically geared towards preparing participants for leadership. This coincided with the JCF's effort at the time to commence a special programme (like the many we currently execute) that will prepare rank and file members to become Junior Operations Commanders".
We should hear more from the Commissioner of Police about this matter this week.
Another source which has had close connection with the JCF said that this type of appointment happened when Col. Trevor McMillan was the Commissioner of Police. This source feels that it is a waste of time challenging this matter. The source also commented on the extent to which senior officers of the JCF do not have a command of the English Language and that source feels that many army officers are better suited for the JCF.
In terms of the use of the English Language, that seems to be a national challenge. I am aware of for example, many senior officers in the JCF and Principals of schools using the term 'would have'. This seems to have become a popular phrase. You will hear for example, "He would have investigated the matter thoroughly". The question is did he/she investigate the matter or did not investigate the matter properly. I can understand if one says for example, "He would have investigated the case properly if he had enough time".
What do you think? Remember that I am no language expert.
9 comments:
Those are sentiments exactly. Did they do it or is it contingent on some other activity...?
Each time i hear "we would have" used, i am anticipating "if".
Some capacity building needs to happen to re- condition the officers on the correct use of that term and how to express themselves, when reporting on what has already happened.
Oh, how we so love to hate our own Police. So we realized that the initial blog was grossly false and misleading, and instead of apologizing to your readers you chose to attack the police' command of the English language. Well guess what? While we spend our life destructively criticizing our Police and lauding anything that is not Jamaican, the JCF still stands tall as the largest, most well educated and technologically advanced Police Force in the English speaking Caribbean. Our hatred for anything Jamaican is a clear manifestation of self hate. Man, did they do a good job on us!
Since when the JCF became a English Language proficiency organization.Jamaica has a 17% functionally literate population so "aye bway myne weh yuh a seh mi wi lakup yuh R--ss r wus aaah dat".
That is standard communication quick efficient and effective boss patois straight.
I am not saying mastery of a universal language is not useful,it is especially when communicating with the wider world.
Overall Jamaica has a lot of work to do considering at 88% we are the tenth lowest as a country in the Caribbean.Male literacy is even lower at 83% females are however at 93%.
Cuba is #1 at 99.9%,Barbados#2 at 99.7 and Trinidad next at 99.6.
Low levels of literacy/mastery of english has affected every profession and area of Jamaica.
My friend, I hope that I have written my blogs in a simple way and that my points are clear. I post what is brought to my attention and I make my comments. I do not make up stories my friend. I am almost sure that I have more friends and relatives in the police force than you have. A police just contacted me about a grammatical error I made in the blog and I just corrected it. You only need to worry about destructive criticism. Please my friend make a worthwhile contribution to this discussion and do not go below the belt.
I hear that and other idiotic phrases and it annoys the heck out of me. But I hear other leaders who you'd figure know better, saying them too. Seems that then can't or shouldn't be a measure although I wish it were.
One of the key elements that separates rumours and gossips from journalism is the verification of the information before it is shared with one's audience. In this case, that would have been very easy do. Too often we become conduits of careless gossips that have detrimental effects on our state agencies, causing them to waste precious time correcting the damage. Finally, I guess when your audience is not in agreement with you then their contribution is not "worthwile".
The inability of "some" members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to master or fully grasped the concept of utilising the "Queen's English" in a way that is gratifying to the ears of the listener, should not be considered a fair measure against their suitability for upward mobility or how high or low they're ranked in comparison to their JDF counterparts, and if that be the case, what metered measurement would we use for those whom we have elected and in some aspects "selected" to hold top positions in this country and who represent us on a global scale but sometimes comes up short in this same area.
The time they took to concentrate on the JCF they would look closer at the JDF and realized that it's the same requirement needed to join any of these Organizations. We have media personalities who have a greater reach to the world, yet we often heard mispronouniciation on national news. So this militarization of the Police Force will only be detrimental to the country as more police migrate to other countries that seeks their expertise. This Commissioner has the distinction of causing the greatest attrition from the police force. Mark my word that Jamaica is going to suffer just like Reneto Adam's predicted
I salute you to the moon and back foe your post.
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