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Maybe Jamaica is more appropiate for your one way street of thinking, but wait Jamaica is a Independent Nation oopppsss. Well it is also part of the Brit CW. So perhaps it is not Government, but the Leadership, maybe both ? Anyway read you may find it to be familiar news...........



PSOJ president backs inquiry into the Braeton shootings


PRESIDENT OF the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Peter Moses is backing the call for an independent inquiry into last week's fatal shootings of seven men in Braeton, St. Catherine.

"We support the idea of an investigation, as long as it can bring out the true story...there are obviously conflicting reports," the PSOJ President said.

In an interview with The Gleaner, Mr. Moses said incidents such as this call into question the operational techniques that are employed by the police force.

"Why is it that when suspected criminals are being apprehended it has to result in this wide scale murder?" he questioned. "Whether there were guilty parties in the house or not, it's not the way that, as a society, we should be responding to suspicion".

Seven young men, some of them teenagers, were killed on March 14 in what the police say was a shoot-out at Seal Way in the Braeton Phase III community. Some of the victims were said to be involved in the murders of a policeman and a school principal.

Commenting on the perception by some members of the public that the seven were criminals and deserved their fate, the PSOJ president said in spite of the number of incidents of this kind, "we still haven't learned that it's not about whether somebody was a criminal or not, it's about how we go about apprehending these people".

He pointed out that even the Commissioner of Police was now concerned about what actually happened. "It's a good sign that he's opening his mind to the fact that we really need to know what went on."

Unless the leadership of the police force was committed to unearthing the truth about incidents such as the Braeton shootings, Mr. Moses says, they would continue.

He said the leadership of the police force had to insist on proper procedures and turn its face against such wanton acts of police aggression. "I think we have to start with an investigation," he declared. "A private one, an independent one, fine". He said that this would inspire confidence in the public domain that the matter would be dealt with impartially.

But he stressed that the investigation should result in some action. "Once we have the truth, what are we going to do about our procedures in dealing with situations like this? Is it going to be just another report, and then in another six months we have a similar incident? The country is tired of that. The country wants to see that there is improvement, that there is change".

He said in the case of Braeton, the police had the option of negotiation and dialogue before using deadly force, even if they had been fired on. "It is quite possible that among these people, innocent people have died as well," he said.

Nonetheless, Mr. Moses is not advocating the disbanding of the Crime Management Unit, which was responsible for the fatal shootings. He said if the Braeton incident represented the Unit's standard operating procedure, then this approach has to be revised.

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