Mark Shields Should Head Up Body To Investigate The Police?

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Letter to the Jamaica Observer editor – Sunday, June 7, 2009
From: Mavis Bartley – mavisbee55@yahoo.com
Re: Suggestion that Mark Shields head up a body that investigates Jamaica’s police

Dear Editor,

The commissioner of police has asked that the contract for outgoing Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields be extended for a further three months if reports I have seen and read are accurate.

Once his service to the JCF is up, I suggest that Mr Shields be asked to lead the private body that the Government has long been promising us to investigate police abuses because I agree that “police should not investigate police”.

This will be the clearest indication yet that this Government is serious about respecting the rights of its people, even when pitted against agents of the State … more

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