{"id":350815,"date":"2025-10-22T09:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=350815"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:37:51","slug":"chief-and-deputy-chief-of-police-to-receive-vehicle-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/chief-and-deputy-chief-of-police-to-receive-vehicle-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief and Deputy Chief of Police to receive vehicle upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_350816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350816\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-350816\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Prime-Minister-Roosevelt-Skerrit-speaking-at-last-week-ceremony-642x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit speaking at last week ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced an upgrade to the vehicles used by the Chief of Police and Deputy Chief of Police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also believe that in Dominica, I think we need to upgrade the vehicles assigned to the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police,\u201d he said during a handing over ceremony of six vehicles to the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force (CDPF) last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we need to make special arrangements for the Deputy Chief and the Chief especially when they are attending official functions\u2026\u201d He continued. \u201cI will assist with that and ensure that they get appropriate vehicles, fitting of the offices that they hold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said that it is important that every police officer maintains a high level of integrity and that they do not compromise themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a gun doesn\u2019t mean that you are safe, and if you compromise the security of the state, you are compromising your own security and that of your family,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, Skerrit noted, it is important to maintain a high level of standards and integrity, \u201cand ensure that we do not find ourselves on the wrong side of the law or ourselves perpetrating&#8230;illegal activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are out, your [comrades] ought to be very comfortable that each of you have each other&#8217;s back, that you are on the side of the law, and you are here to serve and protect,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced an upgrade to the vehicles used by the Chief of Police and Deputy Chief of Police. \u201cI also believe that in Dominica, I think we need to upgrade the vehicles assigned to the Chief&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":350816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[235,285,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-carousel","category-infrastructure","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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