‘I want to see a local CoP in 6 months! – Edmund G. Maduro
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am still wondering why we have a man all the way from the UK as head of our police force," he said, speaking on his EGM Show aired on Thursday June 18, 2015 on ZROD 103.7 FM.
UK Caucasian David Morris now occupies the post of Commissioner of Police after acting in the position for some time.
How did we lose it?
“We need our own people to be involved in these matters. We need our own people to be our security men. We had it. How did we lose it?” Maduro asked. “I want to see our own Chief of Police inside there within the next six months and stop all of this nonsense. Stop destroying our own people,” he said.
Pointing out that he was not saying this to hurt present Commissioner of Police David Morris, Maduro said that it is the right of the people of the Virgin Islands to manage and run their own country.
He said that a friend told him recently that the "biggest piece of foolishness" that he has seen is the territory allowing police from all over the world to come and run the security sector.
“And I am asking our Premier to make every sector of our police force managed by our own people and run by our own people and headed by our own people,” he said.
It was in July 2013 that then Governor William Boyd McCleary announced that from September 1, 2013 Morris would be taking over as Commissioner of Police in what was described as a race-based controversial move which drew disapproval from many quarters in the society.
Both Morris and McCleary have faced many court cases brought on by fellow police officers, ordinary citizens, and civil servants, ranging from alleged rights violation, violation of the constitution, challenge to decisions made by them under their powers, and unfair dismissals.
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21 Responses to “‘I want to see a local CoP in 6 months! – Edmund G. Maduro”
How would you like a really black UK COP? Would that satisfy you?
Edmund, I don't know where you get your idea from; your talk show program is a good initiative, and the airwaves are broad but expensive. Please don't use the airwaves to voice nonsense.
Get to the nuts of the issues affecting the Territory. BVIslanders don't want to become law enforcers and you should know that being an old man at your age. Why? Because they want an 8-4 job that they can leisure around and play on the weekend. Above all, some of them are just raised lawless and want to indulge in criminality.
Edmund you should look at how the government is ill-treating its citizens, feeding them like dogs after three and a half years to get back in power. And what's worse, the gullibles swallow the bait, hook line and sinker.
Look at the conditions of the roads now left after the politics; undone, unplanned; mismanaged and bumpy. but the Cabinet has not changed. It seems like the ministers are now busy looking for their papers they hid in banker boxes in case they had been kicked out.
Look at the conditions of the Police Station, Edmund, they are the same stations in the same state of long ago for the same amount of years that you knew the people who occupied them. Watch a thing Edmund, and tell me if the Government is interested in Law Enforcement and National Security.
The Central Admin Complex has cracks Edmund. Did you see them; Are they a risk factor for the seemingly thousands who make use of administrative services? Is not the building erected on landfill, more so close to the sea? How many engineers have done an assessment on the structure Edmund to see whether it can withstand another year, let alone five? What is the grade of steel being used in structural engineering around the island for those superstructures Edmund.
What about UP's Cineplex and the contamination it creates in the mid of town with all the grease. what about the alleged illegal structure itself.
there are so many burning issues Edmund, my point exactly. Why find beef about the Top Cop
Headline should read "BVIslanders don't want to hear anything out of Maduro's mouth" Since when this guy is an authority on anything to be making these kind of pronouncements? His opinion is based on what? misplaced xenophobia? This COP is doing his job without fear and who actually is the local who will replace him in 6 months? please close your pie hole