Police training and ethical conduct

Apr 26, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to the letter in your publication of April 21st 2014 under the headline ‘Ethical conduct should be included in police training’ and offer the following comments:
1. It is always disturbing when name and address are withheld, but as my friend said to me in the past,” you do not live here, so you won’t know what consequences can follow some published letters”. I disagree;
2. I have reason to believe that ethical conduct is part of the training that recruits go through as evidenced by the former COP Mr Brumell when on graduation of a batch of recruits, he said in his address to them that, he noticed that most of them expressed interests in working in the Immigration and Traffic Divisions, which were noted for bribery complaints, and that he expected them to avoid any such unethical conduct in their duties, for he would not hesitate to end the services of any such violator. Therefore it is reasonable to assume that ethical conduct is part of the training of recruits;
3. However to say of such ethical conduct training (quote) “… it was obviously handled by those who were not properly equipped to obtain the required results.” is inappropriate because it cannot be established that none of the trainees absorbed and practised their training. Some of course would have, and would have conducted themselves appropriately;
4. Police officers have tremendous powers and that is why stern action should be peremptorily be taken when those powers are abused. The long tedious process of investigation, disciplinary hearings, written reports and recommendations for action, are total wastages for an organisation that has to be purposeful in the performance of its duties and functions;
5. I am not sure if police officers have annual training and refresher courses to attend, ( and here the Editor could add a parenthetical elucidating comment ), but in my opinion, all police officers should have at least one week’s training to attend every year. This means that training should be a permanent feature of their attachment to the police force. Such training should not be simply routine, but should take into account every aspect of their job, trends in crime and systems of crime prevention, public complaints, analysis of crime stats region by region and locale, and of course proper conduct at all times;
6. Finally and this raises the veins in my neck, why do the police not cordon off crime scene areas, accident areas etc, so that they can proceed with their duties with the least intervention of onlookers? Most published pictures show the crowd and the police mixing it up in the scenario and that should not be, for the police should be in total charge. Maybe an item that should be included in the annual training.
Carl Veecock

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