The Government of Dominica has handed over six new vehicles to the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) in order to strengthen law enforcement and community patrols.
Four will be deployed to Salisbury, Salybia, Pointe Michel and La Plaine to ensure faster response times and more efficient service to the public.
These vehicles were a donation from one of Dominica’s economic citizens based on a request from Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
They were presented during a handing over ceremony held on the grounds of the Police Headquarters on Friday.
“As you know, we gave a commitment for 10, six have been delivered. The 4 others are on the water…,” Skerrit said. “This is part of our efforts to ensure that the police have the resources that it needs to carry out this mandate and of course access to transportation is key in this.”
According to him, policing 20-25 years ago is completely different, noting that there are more communities to cover.
“The record will show that as Prime Minister of this country, I have always sought to provide the police with all the support required and to ensure that the police, as far as practically possible, has the resources to carry out its mandate,” Skerrit stated.
He continued, “And to rest assured that you have my continued support. The Security of this state is very important…”
Skerrit added, “ I think the police service is in a much better position now than it was 25 years ago or 20 years ago or 10 years ago.”
In the meantime, Minister for National Security Rayburn Blackmoore said the police department needs vehicles.
“The Chief of Police made a request for vehicles and I went to the Prime Minister and he said to me I will get the vehicles for allu, just give me the specs,”he revealed. “The vehicles you are seeing out there were built from scratch and to the specification provided by the police. So it was not imposed on the police by the Prime Minister or the Minister. That is what you asked for.”
Blackmoore said further that the Prime Minister’s presence there is a demonstration of the support of the government, and so the outstations that are without vehicles, the most critical ones received their vehicles on Friday.
“They are all marked already, very quickly and I’m hoping that can be manifested when reports are that the reports can be responded to in quick time.
now give them money for gas so we dont get the usual response when a call to the police is made “it don’t have gas”
More Rum, more bumb and more drugs distribution. nothing more and nothing less. Oh well they are better equipped to bring Money god to do bomb at 12 am too
so Dominica is getting gifts from unknown people? is is that the article is saying? missing in action? the person or persons did not have a birth name?is this top secret? this BS must stop….can you ever trust this carbal….with time it will tell….
The police must be adequately resourced to execute their duties effectively and efficiently. But even more importantly they MUST be well trained and have a strategic plan in place to combat lawlessness.
However ever, giving the undisciplined, roguish, stone-throwing police force more resources without the requisite training and discipline is like throwing salt into the sea.
The police does not need a vehicle to do community patrol,there is something called plain clothes foot patrol.CID and the general section did a lot of that in Roseau in the 70s and 80s that is why no habitual criminals could walk the streets of Roseau after 21.00hrd.What the police have to do is a walking plain clothes patrol in their different districts,sometimes in the day and sometimes at night.
@LP
Not those my-parl-rep sent me police you will see doing foot patrol. I
remember driving through Mahaut at 2:00 AM on a saturday and seeing Weekes and Tyrant Roberts patroling the streets of Mahaut and when I got to St.Joseph I happened to see Joff Dorsette(RIEP), Constance Cuffy and Diggs patrolling that same Saturday night. I actaully stopped and asked what was happening but I guess thats how it was under late Insp. St.Rose (Hunters’s dad) at the time. You had to do your job and that involved street patrols wherever you were stationed.
The legendary Joshua James aka “Shadow/ Shade” used to say criminals love it when the police goes to sleep all at once.
These vehicles were a donation from one of Dominica’s economic citizens based on a request from Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
A joke that!
What other gifts that economic citizen gives on skerrit request. our Government so broke that after the individual buys citizenship from. which we got money we have not adequately invested to now provide vehicles for the police to do thier work. Are our people that disconnected from realty that we celebrate BS even when the government is not hiding thier incompetence.
These cheerleaders depend on Roosevelt for their sustenance. He has reduced a large percentage of the population to beggary. Everything he does is meticulously choreographed to massage his brittle ego. Remember how he urged his zealous, dimwitted supporters to lift him in the air, at the airport, on returning to Dominica after receiving his two artificial doctorates from two obscured institutions. This is most definitely his modus operandi. He does things to grab headlines most particularly on DNO.
Jealousy will toofay you! Go check yourself in at the APU before it is too late. (Heck, it might already be too late!)