Multi-lingual Cops!!!

The word of the day folks is....Multilingual!!!!!

Multilingual, adj., means: ability to communicate in more than two languages.


Now, Jamaica's Minister of National Security, the Hon. Dr. Peter Phillips has announced that plans are afoot to make Jamaican cops multilingual, what with the influx of Hispanic (mainly Hondurans, Cubans, Colombians) and Haitians to our island shores. In short Jamaican cops will be learning, Spanish and Haitian Creole in order to help them better communicate with these people when they get on the rock.

Good idea!!!!!.... ON PAPER!!!!

You see the problem is - which I guess the goodly Minister did not take into consideration, and honestly might not be able to do much about anyway - Jamaican cops, by and large, don't know English!!!

Well, not the Queen's English we were allegedly taught in schools. Hence, they have barely any reasoning ability and a hard time communicating with the public at large.
That's why simple traffic stops can turn into shoot outs and why every release from Constabulary Communications Network (CCN)on a police shooting goes something like this: "The police were shot at by an armed man with a knife, who ran into the nearby bushes. The police returned the fire and the man was shot 365 times all over the body. He was pronounced dead at the hospital." Notice everytime there is a police shooting, there are nearby bushes! Even in New Kingston, there are nearby bushes!!!

Look, I applaud the Ministry of National Security's efforts to confront an increasing problem of foreign thugs, lord knows J.A. has enough of its own thugs, to deal with. But the issue is how you gonna teach new languages to people who are yet to master their own????

Just an opinion!