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Leadership of a vindictive and unprofessional nature makes for stymied development

Sep 03, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Regardless of Clinton Conway’s intentions, “The GPF is in the middle of its Five Year Strategic Plan”, he has succeeded admirably in supporting Patrick E. Mentore’s contentions about the need for the GPF to implement a realistic recruitment strategy.
Conway alludes to some of the same inhibitors to attracting suitable candidates to the police force but stops far short of identifying the successful strategies he developed and implemented during his tenure as “Training Officer with responsibility for recruitment … and Chairman of the Joint Services Training Committee.”
His preoccupation with the milestones passed since the implementation of the strategic management ignores the fact that any process will only go as far as the leadership of the GPF permits. Intransigent leadership of a vindictive and unprofessional nature makes for stymied development and stagnation.
I posed a few questions in my first letter on this issue and the nation still awaits the pronouncements by the GPF on what recruitment and retention strategies it has formulated and the associated benchmarks and timelines.
Conway makes the subtle insinuation about political interference when he mentions monthly intrusions by the Ministry of Home Affairs which should have resulted in a recruitment strategy. It is not the Minister who has to develop the strategy, but the police.
I fail to see the relevance to his reference to the standard entry level into the Joint Service. What point is he making?
Editor, There is absolutely no attempt by Mentore to compare recruitment and retention strategies between the GDF and the GPF, but there is an unsophisticated attempt to lay this spurious intent at the man’s door.
Conway takes a similar dig like the GPF when he names the writer as Patrick E. Mentore, but is conspicuously vague when he mentions “whoever he or she may be”, bringing into question his protestation of holding no brief for the GPF. However, he regains some degree of credibility when he asserts the importance of strategic management and strategic thinking as the way forward for the GPF.
It is now up to the GPF to demonstrate that it is prepared to operate within a new paradigm in keeping with the democratic vision of a new dispensation.
Edmund Syfox

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