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assassin wrote:Security van heist and shoutout on the highway... Dana gunned down in woodbrook... Police get gunned down at barrackpore bar robbery
No one held for any of the above and countless other incidents... But they had the capacity to coordinate yesterday's nationwide lockdown?
*KRONIK* wrote:assassin wrote:Security van heist and shoutout on the highway... Dana gunned down in woodbrook... Police get gunned down at barrackpore bar robbery
No one held for any of the above and countless other incidents... But they had the capacity to coordinate yesterday's nationwide lockdown?
THIS!!!!!!!!!
When protesters block roads, police intervention is always needed to clear the routes for commuters but what are commuters to do when police officers themselves protest by blocking the country’s major highways under the guise of roadblocks?
This is the calculated effect of the Police Service Traffic Branch carrying out “checks” yesterday at peak morning hours at all major arteries of Trinidad and Tobago. In an interview on I95.5 FM yesterday, vice-president of the Police Social and Welfare Association Inspector Roger Alexander, clearly not afraid of sounding either foolish or disingenuous, claimed that the exercises were intended to catch criminals with weapons, drunk drivers, and persons without “proper documentation”.
Pressed to say how many illegalities were detected, Alexander said the traffic checks weren’t about detection but “strategy”. As a consequence of such strategic thinking – or lack thereof – thousands of persons reached to work hours late or even went back home due to the traffic gridlock created by these officers’ disruptive action. Court cases had to be postponed, people missed flights, school-children had to walk, sick people fell more sick and were late for doctors’ appointments and if one had an emergency, well too bad and the list of woes continues. But, according to Inspector Alexander, this was “not the intention”. If he was speaking truthfully, then such lack of foresight may be sufficient explanation for the myriad failures of the Police Service to protect and serve.
However, despite the Inspector’s snickering denials, the public perception is that, banned by law from taking industrial action, police officers used this strategy to show how the Police Service can achieve the same effect as strikes by ostensibly carrying out their duties. In so doing, police officers may be hoping to force the Government into meeting their wage demands.
This tactic may or may not work. The immediate effect has been to make the Police Service even more unpopular with ordinary citizens and so, if the Government submits to such pressure, they may lose more votes than would be gained from kowtowing to 7,000 officers. Citizens will now be more receptive to arguments which point out that police officers receive the highest levels of pay in any sector relative to their education qualifications – between $8,000 and $20,000 per month for five or fewer Ordinary Levels. Even the claim that such remuneration constitutes risk compensation is somewhat specious, inasmuch as the highest injury and death rates among workers are in the industrial sector, not the Defence Force.
The TTPS, as opinion surveys have repeatedly shown, already has low public confidence. And, by frustrating citizens in this manner, lack of empathy has now been added to lack of confidence. Acting Police Commissioner Ann Marie Alleyne has said that the police action was not sanctioned by the executive and she has apologised but the deed has been done.
We have to wonder too if anything will come out of the investigation and whether the errant officers in charge will be disciplined for disrupting the country.
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Casper23 wrote:megadoc1 wrote:^^so far only relatives of police officers and officers tries to reason this waythanks for and honest opinion on the matterrollingstock wrote:^ Oh really now?
As a police officer they took an oath to protect and serve, their actions was borne of spite and clearly with the intention to cause hardship.
I agree with the fight for a proper salary, I live it every month end, but I knew what I was getting into before I joined, since then I have qualified myself and if the need arise I can leave in the morning and acquire a better remuneration in the private sector.
I lol when I see fellow comrades with their 'fight the good fight' posts on social media and look at their disingenuous morals, persons who are lazy, rude to the public and frankly inept at their duties clamoring for a raise; and yet see the suffering of those who work tirelessly for a pittance.
But the fact is in 2010 the association was in a stronger bargaining position yet crumpled and accepted a measly raise and now in 2015 with public opinion of the police at an all time low and a dwindling oil price which or economy is based on they want to bargain for a hefty raise.
It felt good to see fellow officers rally together and stand firm in their convictions but at what cost? Alienating an already despondent public? Why not target that same enthusiasm towards proper policing. What is the TTPS willing to exchange for a raise? No more roadblocks during rush hour?
I still feel good to know that we could have come together and done something as a cohesive unit but ill timed, ill focused and at what cost.
Neither sir...I just see fair is fair and it's only people that NOT in their shoes have all the negative to say so idk what you trying to say
rollingstock wrote:^ Oh really now?
As a police officer they took an oath to protect and serve, their actions was borne of spite and clearly with the intention to cause hardship.
I agree with the fight for a proper salary, I live it every month end, but I knew what I was getting into before I joined, since then I have qualified myself and if the need arise I can leave in the morning and acquire a better remuneration in the private sector.
I lol when I see fellow comrades with their 'fight the good fight' posts on social media and look at their disingenuous morals, persons who are lazy, rude to the public and frankly inept at their duties clamoring for a raise; and yet see the suffering of those who work tirelessly for a pittance.
But the fact is in 2010 the association was in a stronger bargaining position yet crumpled and accepted a measly raise and now in 2015 with public opinion of the police at an all time low and a dwindling oil price which or economy is based on they want to bargain for a hefty raise.
It felt good to see fellow officers rally together and stand firm in their convictions but at what cost? Alienating an already despondent public? Why not target that same enthusiasm towards proper policing. What is the TTPS willing to exchange for a raise? No more roadblocks during rush hour?
I still feel good to know that we could have come together and done something as a cohesive unit but ill timed, ill focused and at what cost.
stev wrote:looks like we started going international:
article has wrong information though. lol
http://news.yahoo.com/traffic-snarled-a ... ef=Default
stev wrote:Police threat?
rollingstock wrote:Honestly dan it was a dream when I was a kid, sorry to say but the real thing is a far cry from what I imagined, but still I enjoy my job and for some strange reason i'm good at it plus the TTPS has been good to me, my job afforded me to get my degree, home, vehicle, lots of b1tches.
I've been tempted many many times to leave, and funnily none of those times were when I got shot, when I was under pressure as the subject of an Inquest and potentially facing a murder charge, not when I had 44 matters before the Complaints Division...........the only thing made me contemplate leaving my job was the arseholes I work with, becoming disenchanted with the people around me and especially with Snr's.
It's difficult working with uneducated fools who believe that that khaki uniform makes them a king amongst men, these same idiots that are in the hierarchy of the service with their School Leaving Certificate, and no idea of crime fighting, they bring nothing new to the table.
Look at East POS there are too many units in that area and too much manpower directed there, there's IATF, GEB, POSTF, POS Ops, SOP, CCTV Response Unit, DPU, CID Task Force and Besson Street and yet murders. East POS has a social issue and beyond that they're fighting over money. Take most of those officers and put them in severely depleted units like OCNFB and strangle the drug trade, but the police will remain reactionary, is there a problem there? Lets throw strength at it.
rollingstock wrote:Honestly dan it was a dream when I was a kid, sorry to say but the real thing is a far cry from what I imagined, but still I enjoy my job and for some strange reason i'm good at it plus the TTPS has been good to me, my job afforded me to get my degree, home, vehicle, lots of b1tches.
I've been tempted many many times to leave, and funnily none of those times were when I got shot, when I was under pressure as the subject of an Inquest and potentially facing a murder charge, not when I had 44 matters before the Complaints Division...........the only thing made me contemplate leaving my job was the arseholes I work with, becoming disenchanted with the people around me and especially with Snr's.
It's difficult working with uneducated fools who believe that that khaki uniform makes them a king amongst men, these same idiots that are in the hierarchy of the service with their School Leaving Certificate, and no idea of crime fighting, they bring nothing new to the table.
Look at East POS there are too many units in that area and too much manpower directed there, there's IATF, GEB, POSTF, POS Ops, SOP, CCTV Response Unit, DPU, CID Task Force and Besson Street and yet murders. East POS has a social issue and beyond that they're fighting over money. Take most of those officers and put them in severely depleted units like OCNFB and strangle the drug trade, but the police will remain reactionary, is there a problem there? Lets throw strength at it.
ABA Trading LTD wrote:rollingstock for prime minister!
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