Government said it has spent in excess of $3.3 million in the last three years to repair police vehicles that were damaged by officers.
National Security Minister Charles Savarin made the announcement at the graduation ceremony of new police officers this week. He encouraged them to take better care of police vehicles.
“Government provided four additional vehicles to the police to augment the 29 allocated to them over the last three years. The government has sought to ensure that every police station and unit is equipped with a vehicle and to bring to an end the much complained about response from the police that they have no vehicle,” he said.
Savarin said police vehicles seem to get into accidents much too frequently and end up in the vehicle hospital at Morne Bruce “where they spend too much time convalescing before they can return to active duty”.
figures do not lie
stay there still and doe go and wash your peepeee bed you on DNO…… let your moda catch you.
i thought since mr Blackmoore go that the police and the country did noy have a minster of national security.While i am concerned with the figure stated, as another person commented the figure must be broken down to show in what areas the money was spend.Because it would be unfair to the police to include cost arising from normal rear and tear and the purchasing or spares for servicing. what about the other departments under his command where the same situation exist why single out one department.Has the goverment ever thought of odering all their spares directly and store them in their stores which will result in lower cost instead of every time you need a break pad to run up and down to get a L.P.O to purchase it at one of the dealers at a cut neck price.And what about investing in the police garrage mechanics in terms of traning , equipping the garage with latest equipments and tools and extent the garage to include body works and spraying, i think all this will significantly reduce the cost and prolong the life of the police vehicles.
put some more effort in the fire department they do a better job overall
Savarin must try fixin the roads; the ordinary person spends so much on maintaining their private vehicle much less for having a fleet of God know’s how many vehicles….tell Blackmoore to fix DA roads to start with.
I spent more than 20 years in this and i know policemen. They are also jealous and haters of their own brothers but they love the sisters only for one thing. There is a lot more i can say. I was also well respected by the Commissioner of police just for my knowledge and the way i carried out my duties. Amennnnnnnnnnnn!
R u the only Ex-cop who’s in that position now thou? Dang! I can u’re so just spitting shit now because u’re still holding grude. No two cop have the same policing skills and I could also go on and say so much about my husband who’s been serving for more than 20 years well respected too. Especially in ur other perthetic comment you couldn’t have been a true brother. I think u’re the jealous one who was ” if ever u were even a cop” in the mix. So what’s ur dang point for that statement?
take it out their damn salary and they will take care of it.
I love a devoted looser, for good reason for we always pick up his girl friend while he`s working the night shift and she always enjoy the ride maybe “Devoted Dominican” should get a job as a mechnic at the police garage to take care of the damage caused by his girlfriend. We are so sorry the ladies love the police all over the world the police are people person why not Dominica?pip–P,
Mr Savarin, Mr PM, please do your job properly. For it is you who hires those incompetent, uneducated brainless, no commonsense, don’t care,corrupted low life as (POLICE OFFICERS). With the many officers that you now have and are still hiring more, why are there so many crimes on the island? the tourist industry as you very well know happens to be the main source of revenue in the island, why are they not better protected by those police officers of yours? why is there not more police officers in plain view whenever there is a cruise boat in harbor either Roseau or in Portsmouth? why is there not more police officers at every tourist attraction site when they are visiting? you know why your police officers are so incompetent and don’t care, it’s because there are no leaders in your police force. If they do not care about themselves, what makes you think that they are going to care about a vehicle that is not their own or anything else. Stop wasting the tax payers dollars on those losers that you call police officers.
Devoted Dominican,
I am happy you got brains but I want you to recognize that the society from which I suspect you came, is the one producing those ‘no brainers’ that you claim are being hired. Coincidently, the politicians on the government side or rather the Cabinet of ministers are the ones hijacking the recruitment process, handpicking and sending those persons to be trained. The Government should however increase the fleet of police vehicles to reduce or eliminate this problem. The police always have to go around in a hurry because they cannot be out for too long otherwise somebody is going too say ‘they call the police so long and the police not coming’
Maybe you could think of this……..
There are three sides to this story; The minister’s side, the police side and The Truth. I will wait to get all three before i start throwing punches.
talk and laugh saverin talk and laugh.dominicans are so laughable now,give them jokes and laugh at dem till election come around foolie d/cans,laugh charlo laugh,laugh skero laugh dem
This response is for the rest of you, who have no idea what you speak about and because of the fact that you have never stepped in the “police kitchen” to feel the heat, or walked a mile in the police shoes, I will allow you to make all your loose statements after-all you enjoy freedom of speach and you pay the taxes that pay our salaries including the salary of the Minister, then it would be fair to ask the Minsister to elaborate on the statement. There is no mention of the areas where these vehicles MUST go and the condition of the roads in these parts. There is no mention of the model of vehicles purchased for the police. There is no mention of the fact that when you have different drivers driving the same vehicle how that affecte that vehcicle. There is no mention of the parts that needed changing and the cost of spare parts. There is no mention of what exactly the repairs were and the cost. There is no information to indicate whether the vehicles collided or if the repairs had anything to do with Manaufacturing defects. There is no break down of the damages and everyone goes bullistics on the police. Thanks you all! We will continue to do our best not withstanding the few among us who have not lived up to your expectations.PEACE.
I fully endorse your comments………..
we are all responsible for that kind of nonesence.we blame gout,police, pm, opposition but it is all of us. we need to work together to build a better dominica for our children
3.3 million. Best allu gave me that money.I need it. Or it could have been put to better use.Lots of poor people. Can’t believe it.The policemen know it’s not their vehicle so they do what they want with it. Wicked souls. They know a cent would not come from their pockets so what u expect. Start deducting it from their big salaries and u’ll see the change. I just find that’s total nonsense..Gov’t can do better than that.
SHAMEFUL!!!!!!!What an absolute waste of tax payers and public money!!!!!!!! Those so called policemen, especially the men are nothing bit a laod of layabouts. All they do is drive around in those air condition vehicles looking for young girls to have their wicked ways with. My mother in her 80s lives a stone throw from a police station, called the police because she happened to lock her self out of the house and had no way to get back in. They said they would be there 10 mins; after having had no response after 2 hours, being very frail and not able to walk without aid, she slowly made her way to the station to see if they would help her; again they said they would be there in 10 mins. To cut a long story short, they never turned up for the whole day. A neighbour had to smash down the door to enable her to enter the house. What made it worse is that she also had her diabetic medication in the house which she needed to take to avert what could have been fatal to her.
So you telling me that the public should foot the bill for luxury vehicles that allow the police to lime the streets with and not having any concern or regard for the public.If i had my way they would all be on foot or use donkeys. That money would be better Spent on the Fire Service and the Ambulance.
why did you not open the door for her. very strange
you really a zandoli
you realy a zandoli
you officers enjoy breaking the law and after wants to beat and abuse innocent people for nothing. al you are real doggggggggggggggggggggssssssssssssssssss.
Something is wrong here. 3.3 million dollars in the last three years to repair police vehicles. Just police vehicles. That’s 1.1 million a year. Why? How many vehicles? What’s the extent of the damage?Something just does not add up here. If a new vehicle costs $100,000, that’s 11 new vehicles a year. What does it cost to repair vehicles from other departments? The fire service, the hospital. What’s the overall repair budget? $1.1 million a year, what a waste!
indeed before speaking like the authourity you savrin should first of all you conduct due dillengence.why is it that the speacial branch GA 278 has to drop off the prime minsisters girl friend to the melville hall airport, and to her store on cock street, and like wise to her home in st, aroma.please look within before you speak. GA 278 IS at the hospital in checkhall at a body reapir ward,i wonder what occured why its found its self at the ward. abuse cause it to be a patient on the ward?.
And the woman so dam fresh she dont even want the Prime Minister to hug or talk to his supporters.She geting well vex and ready to beat him up there self. Where she was when the poor people were campaigning and voting for Skerrit? Is we the poor people that put him there not her! So woman brush aside and know your dam place! Skerrit put that woman straight!
thank you??????
Agree, keep sipping on your HATER-AID!! You are just downright JEALOUS your man isn’t prime minister for you and your besties to ride on it. You wouldn’t want your man to arrange transportation for you too? Jeez!
Quit making up bull-crap story about she gets upset when he is speaking to his supporters!! Is u alone that campaign for Skerrit nah? stupes tan…keep envying d gurl still….
I guessing “anonymous” is the “girlfriend”. Let me correct you first, I would never use my company vehicle to carry my woman to work. As a matter of fact my woman have her own ride. I disagree with Skerrit wasting tax payers money to transport you around.Simple.Its robbing the poor people of this country.And you sound very vain too.Its not all about you.
so what you trying to tell me dat’s one of those ready made jacket?
just trying to get all it can get from him and then wah happen after dat.
it going to pack dee old speakers aside…well it working eh.
Wise old owl i suspect what u sayin is so true cause if he wasn’t PM she would not give him a second luk….
Anyone ever heard of insurance? Are any monies recovered from insurance??? I cannot believe the $3M would be the deductible costs. Assuming insurance is possible, cost benefit analysis will show that it would be justified to include this in operational budgets! This is a no-brainer.
Generally government gloats over new capital works or equipment expenditure and very little thought is paid to maintenance consequences and operational measures, for smooth running: be it a new road, school, hospital, vehicles. The policemen possibly are not taking the best care, but seriously, everywhere, police vehicles are at a high risk for damage. If you really think about it, police vehicles in every country get the most sever duty. It could be even worst if the patrols were more active and if they had to be chasing vehicles etc.
The things to focus on would be proper specs for the vehicles, effective maintenance and a very responsive system with repair protocols (including quick turn around time) and training/awareness workshops for officials. Also, even while applauding the govt for the much overdue vehicles, government should not stop with just a vehicle for each police station. There should also be a vehicle pool to deal with emergencies of vehicle shortages such as accidents or downtime for non-accident vehicle outages. Mr Minister also needs to understand that the protocol for dealing with equipment related to emergencies/public safety (ambulances, fire equipment, police equipment) should be dealt with more appropriately Regardless of who the fault is there should be faster repair turn around time, just by virtue of the criticality of this equipment (same applies to other safety equipment). Better care can be taken it is true, but all too often effective operational systems are not thought of or proposed as well We may not have the means to effect all these things all at once but they must be given serious thought than carrying on with the same old business as usual!
Thank you Mr. Savarin.They always have the Police vehicles dropping their wives children and girlfriends everywhere and they know its wrong so they must speed and most times they are under the influence of something or transporting some banana plants or some rabbit or dog food..
This does not only happen in the Police force but in all govt. departnents.Until we have workers leave govt. vwhicles on Govt. compound and use their private cars before and after their official duties, you will be spending another 5 mil. Im a laborite and these little things can cause me to cross the floor. This is not a threat but a warning,
Get the commissioner of police to fix this shit. Dominica is too small for this nonsense
Thank you Mr. Savarin Its never too late to start. The time is now. Dominica is too sweet for some people.
You are the best for DA.
Greetings X-Police in New York, thanks for your contribution. You have really provided us with an answer to the so called problem that the Minister was quick to lay on the shoulders of the police drivrers, convenient scapegoats.I wonder what your contribution was to the Force during your eyars among us mr brother? I wonder, where did you serve, were you a driver, are you aqauinted or and knowledgable eith vehicles, especially the models purchased for such hard work? I can go on asking you questions but I doubt you will eb able to asnwer one much less the other dozen I have decided to hold back. Every policde driver needs to be exposed to Defensive Training Courses. There are some members/ drivers who are untrainable and so they need to be removed from the list of authorized drivers. There are amendments needed in the Insurance coverage to allow for every police officer with a valid drivers license to be an authorized police driver. Most importantly the government MUST pay the Drivers License pf Police Drivers and extremely importantly, GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO PROVIDE INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR POLICE DRIVERS!! Now my brother, you should not allow yourslef to get so hasty with words against your police family without the facts. The Minister owe police drivers an apology for making such a blanket statement and blaming police men for the cost of repairs to police vehicles, without giving a clue what the damages were. The Minister had to conduct an Audit before making such a statement but again its ok, just blame the police. I am proud to be a member of this organisation and your comments have proven one thing, you were never one of us, you just came for the money bro, cause if your heart was there and you understood how things work in this organization you would not have made such an ignorant and ill informed contribution. Love anyways. Me? I am in my twenty third year of service just in case you were wondering my brother??
I love the way u put it on him Meastro!
Good
Yeah you do your share so transporting after the 20 years so you can indeed beat ur beak now.
Nice u should talk it tooooo!
i smell a conspiracy or … in local terms “borbol” think ill call it… um lets see, grease monkey borbol?
pay them more money and thay will stop.$1500 ec is nothing that y thay doing that.thay say you not
all you not paying us good we will make all you pay for the vehicles we driving
3.3 milllion to repair police vehicles what happen every police officer has his own vehicle man. That is outrageous that must be a type o maybe the man said 333,333 I will have to assume. That just shows how wasteful you people are but yet still when u call the police the same vehicle is always out doing personal errands and going on dates and all that on the state. I have seen police officers speeding just because they feel they can but should that speeding be in emergency situations only but they never drive and abuse their own vehicles in that way though
To Grand Bayrian,
Yes, Mr. Savarin is for real. Help our fellow Sout-men understand that Savarin and his DLP gangs are no longer trusted in Sout Citi. We have been fooled for too long now. The time to act is now. $3.3 million annually for auto maintenance, but they wont complete the Bayfront Rd. that the Hon. Pierre Charles gave to you. Rise-up people!
One day Dominicans will wake up and smell the coffee. They will see that they have been fooled by this secularist system.
It is time to investigate islam as an authentic way of life and not what the crooked zionist/free mason media is showing you.
will we be required to dress in the gowns and little hats and will our ladies have to hide their faces? is that a requirement to practice Islam? Do you know?
are you for real, maybe you need to look at what is happening in the islamic countries before you talk about spoiling our beautiful country more
@ Bushmaninda: You will be judged according to the Torah and the gospels if you are a true christian. I’m sure these scriptures do not allow for pumpum shorts?
@no name: Typical media brainwashing, you will not comment on the western influence to destroy islam so they are creating disputes all over. Palestine, a western problem, a British problem, Sudan, Bosnia, Kashmir, 98% of these problems when you examine the historical accounts reveals it’s a western problem. The muslim world is frustrated with western interference in their affairs so they are lashing back. Do you think 9/11 occured in a vaccuum? You’ve got to be joking! Do you think that 19 hijackers got up one day and did this? Some of the pentagon was destroyed, how comes the U.S government fail to release the tapes that surrounded the rest of the pentagon? Something’s cooking, I smell what it is, do you? There is a war to destroy Islam and the muslim has a fundamental right to defend Islam! How many muslims were killed in these two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? How many prisoners were abused, raped etc in Abu Grayb? How about the account of the 14 yr old girl raped and burnt alive she and her family in Iraq? The list goes on and on. Don’t be fooled by the media that taliban are these evil villians and they are destroying their own people etc etc. The Taliban bought peace and stability to Afghanistan, reduced the exportation of heroine etc. During the Taliban one could freely walk the streets, homes were safe, no robbery etc, now Afghanistan is a nightmare! Sadam Hussein was an evil dictator, who put him there? The CIA, they love those dictators all that to destroy Islam and to use those puppets for oil and riches. Some of you people simply need to be informed a little more. Islam is the only comprehensive way of life that can really remove many of the ills our society suffers today.
@ Muslim _ Always
Your comments make me angry. Goodness me! The article is about Police Officers vehicles. Please inform us where do your Islam and such comments fit in, in this article? This includes those who made such a statement. Some of you sway away and far away from the article.
I have books and relevant articles about how the Muslims persecuted the Catholics and other Christians in ancient days. To this day, this is done as in recent days/months, in African countries and as also broadcasted through the general Media that Catholic Christians of all in Iraq and Afghanistan who were at Church, worshipping God were murdered.
Christians are the most persecuted and peaceful people on this earth. Do you want to wage a war in the US and in Dominica of all? Therefore, please keep your Islam and all other such negative comments out of this column. They are unsuitable for this column. We could do without them. Thank you!
There is ONLY ONE WAY TO OUR ALMIGHTY FATHER, GOD, IT IS THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
The Holy Bible – The New Testament:
John 14:7:9:10 – No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you know Me, then you will also know My Father. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him. Whoever has seen Me has seen the Father. I am in the Father and the Father is in Me.
Matthew 11:27 – All things have been handed over to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him.
Luke 20:42 – For David himself in the Book of Psalms says: “The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at My right hand ’till I make your enemies your footstool.
Afro-caribbean people have NO right in muslim garbage. You all are negroes and thats how you all will die. So stop being brainwashed by some religious fanatics. They say they kill in the name of Allah but they should lynch evryone of you black idiots following them.
@ Falsehood, injustice, hate, war and division: You will never understand my perspective because you are a secularist. This was a general statement that secularism is the root of these complex problem. The mere fact you go through a human being is that you are calling to falsehood and polytheism! Christians are the most peaceful people on earth? Miss or sir, what drugs are you on, the body and the wine of god?
@ Locious Woodcock: What do you know about Afro-Caribbean? Do you know that most of the African slaves were muslims? Kindly ask any History lecturer or professor! I feel sorry for you people. Do you still want to follow the religion of the white slave masters? Christianity is not from Jesus (p), it is from Rome! Leave Christianity before it’s too late.
@ AC: I agree with you. 3.3 Million to repair vehicles. Buy new onessssssssss
Is Minister Savarin for real? Is he refering to the same police force, who some years ago, vandalized the President’s Vehicle? Something must be wrong here, or is Savarin is drinking to much night train wine?.
$3.3M to repair Police vehicles in Dominica in three years? That is a lot of money including a lot of damage to government vehicles! Are those vehicles used after hours? How about the roads? Are the roads all motorable and in good shape? Bad roads can eat up tires, etc. Something to look into.
Take better care of your mouth too Charlo
What New the more things change the more it stays the same, we been in that situation for many years go way back same shit different days and do not expect that to change. “THATS DOMINICA MAN; YOU GET THE MESSAGE?
They always seems to be giving police vehicles but never the fire service. Both needs vehicles and fire firghters are just as important as police officers.
Give them bicycles… funny how they never have vehicles when u call them and government spending so much money!
so true,
i always see with my two eyes police hve woman infront vehicle..nd i know she i no delinquent….
but when u report them the others laught at u..cuz all doing the same crap..
yes, dont have it all over the place driving over the speed limit( is there a speed limit in DA?) all i know is that some of them show off and drive way to fast, and have it on weekends picking up girls and when u call station u hearing the vehicle out. take care of govt property
Something must be wrong today!!!!
DNO, is this a typo? Is it 3.3 million or .33 million?
I like the police, but if this is true, whoever is handling the police budget is an IDOT. You spending 3.3 million dollars to repair vehicles? Are you repairing fighter jets? You could have bought 66 NEW VEHICLES with that money, at 50 thousand a piece. Or even 55 new ones at 60 thousand a piece. Why repair them? What the hell are you spending the people’s money on?
Very good point, cause this 3.3 Million just for repairs is ridiculous.
Let us wait and see if it is a typo, this makes absolutely no damn sense! DNO please confirm. Thank You!
ADMIN
If it was incorrect, this would have been changed a long time ago… I think after I sell DNO I’ll set up a business catering specially to repairing police vehicles. I would be a millionaire… and they all know I treat the police good, ensuring Inspector Weeke’s news get out every week. lol
lol 3.3 Mil is not half bad compared to a 1/4 mil. i say go for it. need a business partner?