JCF does not have capacity to provide close protection to special officers - DCP Bailey

 

Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge Crime Fitz Bailey says the Jamaica Constabulary Force does not have the capacity to provide close protection services to special officers.

 

His comment was in response to a question posed surrounding claims that officers of the Integrity Commission have not been given sufficient security protection. 

 

"We do not have an unlimited amount of persons assigned to the protective service," DCP Bailey insisted. 

 

"Think about a division of St. Andrew Central, that huge division that requires significant police in service. We have deployed maybe more persons than the amount of persons that work in St. Andrew Central, one of the divisions in Jamaica," he explained. 

  

DCP Bailey said the police, as a pubic body, should be sparingly used to fulfill the security demands of private dispositions.

 

However, he said uniformed officers have been provided to the Integrity Commission's office. 

 

"There were two individuals at the commission. One of them was assigned a CPO, and for some reason the person decided that, whether it be personality issues - I don't know - they wanted someone else. And it was made very clear that we don't have a core of people that are there in waiting and we just switch from one to the other. These are just some realities," he pointed out. 

 

DCP Bailey was speaking Friday with Hotline host, Emily Shields.