The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University reported earlier this year that nearly a third of high school students in the U.S say they drink at least once a month. I believe that in the Bahamas this number is even higher where I have seen kids under the age of 10 go into liquor stores or corner bars, to purchase drinks for adults or themselves. Is it time that we in the Bahamas enforce the drinking age. Alcohol consumption at such early age leads to more serous problems. We must be one of the slackest country in the world that passes laws and don’t enforce them. On any given day you can drive down Bay and see young men who are under the drinking age walking with a bottle of beer or rum in there hands.
Indeed are lack of enforcement of laws are costing us to develop as undisciplined people. Some Examples of laws not being enforce.
Running red Lights …. Very little enforcement
Littering …… No enforcement
Drinking alcohol on wholesale premises ….No enforcement
Begging arms …… No enforcement
Driving without seat belt …..No enforcement
Riding a motorbike without helmet …… No enforcement
There is so much more but I am exhausted.

yes this is true, arent you a cop though?

yes this is true, arent you a cop though?

Yes I am but the fact are the facts I am only one man. I wish I could do the work of them all. I tell your I would have this country clean from the mess it is in.

okay, just checking, didnt want to upset you :-)

is it a problem with bad management, from Police Inspectors, Chief of Police, or Political side, such as the National Security Minister (or advisers) ..

OR, is it the actual copper in the street not doing their job?

okay, just checking, didnt want to upset you :-)
is it a problem with bad management, from Police Inspectors, Chief of Police, or Political side, such as the National Security Minister (or advisers) ..
OR, is it the actual copper in the street not doing their job?

I think that it is the mentality of the officers we are now getting in the force who feel that once they can collect a salary all is well. They don’t have the passion for doing their duty or enforcing the laws. I think unfortunately they are a reflection of the majority of persons in our Bahamian society today.

Unfortunately for us as a people what can we do, I hear persons talking about the poor results in education but I am convince that our problems are bigger than education. It appears to be one that is routed in the soul of the majority of our people that yarns to get rich quick by what ever scheme, trickery to get ahead in life. This result in them not carrying about each other, or the laws in the country once they think that they can get away with it.

so true ..

Unfortunately for us as a people what can we do, I hear persons talking about the poor results in education but I am convince that our problems are bigger than education. It appears to be one that is routed in the soul of the majority of our people that yarns to get rich quick by what ever scheme, trickery to get ahead in life. This result in them not carrying about each other, or the laws in the country once they think that they can get away with it.

Well said, and keep doing your part to make things better. God speed in doing your duty.

They need more police officers like Lincoln Cartwright, Oscar sands, and Big Ju there to clean things up again!

The process in permiting candidates to be cops need to be more tight. Are these people interviewed? Must they say or write about why they want to become a police officer? I was told that they just take an aptitude test and then do training, but who are you training? You could be giving a future corrupted cop more physical strenght to overpower the inocent. We must start filtering who really has the desire to clean up our nation from the officers who are there because of pay and because they cant make it anywhere else. It just like in other carrers in which seasoned professionals can see whether the rookie actually has the passion for the job, like internships. Policing must be view as a more professional and respectable carrer and not a job or else the wrong people will continue to get in and destroy the force.

Another thing that I have with the police is when they are on tv waving their fingers about how they "are not tollerating foolishness", like before junkanoo for example. I think when you do that you are only daring more idiots to make trouble in public. You are just calling them out, because they will test this "no tolerance" force. Of course you don't tolerate foolishness YOU ARE THE POLICE! :duh: It would be a better example to just do the job, without the dares or warnings....and when the fools are arrested then others will know that the RBPF does not play "for real" and they will have second thoughts.

The process in permiting candidates to be cops need to be more tight. Are these people interviewed? Must they say or write about why they want to become a police officer? I was told that they just take an aptitude test and then do training, but who are you training? You could be giving a future corrupted cop more physical strenght to overpower the inocent. We must start filtering who really has the desire to clean up our nation from the officers who are there because of pay and because they cant make it anywhere else. It just like in other carrers in which seasoned professionals can see whether the rookie actually has the passion for the job, like internships. Policing must be view as a more professional and respectable carrer and not a job or else the wrong people will continue to get in and destroy the force.
Another thing that I have with the police is when they are on tv waving their fingers about how they "are not tollerating foolishness", like before junkanoo for example. I think when you do that you are only daring more idiots to make trouble in public. You are just calling them out, because they will test this "no tolerance" force. Of course you don't tolerate foolishness YOU ARE THE POLICE! :duh: It would be a better example to just do the job, without the dares or warnings....and when the fools are arrested then others will know that the RBPF does not play "for real" and they will have second thoughts.



Namaste:

The police force has a history of corruption, it goes hand in hand with the government. what we are seeing is the natural evolution of the society, have people forgotten that we as a society was form on the fringes of the law, we live by exploiting the miss fortune of others.

Maybe you slept in history class in school, but i recall that we lived as ship wreckers, then we did a bit of rum running during prohibition, and the gods smiled on us when castro removed cuba as the usa favorite prostitue, and we jumped into bed with the usa, mixed in with some weed shipment, we are the pinicale of corruption, must be in the genes.

Thus we are manifesting our intents, if you plant apples dont expect corn.

The process in permiting candidates to be cops need to be more tight. Are these people interviewed? Must they say or write about why they want to become a police officer? I was told that they just take an aptitude test and then do training, but who are you training? You could be giving a future corrupted cop more physical strenght to overpower the inocent. We must start filtering who really has the desire to clean up our nation from the officers who are there because of pay and because they cant make it anywhere else. It just like in other carrers in which seasoned professionals can see whether the rookie actually has the passion for the job, like internships. Policing must be view as a more professional and respectable carrer and not a job or else the wrong people will continue to get in and destroy the force.

Police go through a rigorous 2 or three day interview after passing their entrance exam. During this period they are tested physically mentally and emotionally. They are also interrogated by senior officers. Investigators also do research on them. They even go as far as going to their neighbourhoods and questioning neighbours.

Police go through a rigorous 2 or three day interview after passing their entrance exam. During this period they are tested physically mentally and emotionally. They are also interrogated by senior officers. Investigators also do research on them. They even go as far as going to their neighbourhoods and questioning neighbours.


Lincoln:

THAT IS FUNNY. cause they were doing the same thing 20 years ago when i wanted to join the force. it did not help back then and it sure does not help now. for ever you find a cop who is not corrupt i will give you a dollar. for every one who is corrupt you give me a dollar wanna bet.

They need more police officers like Lincoln Cartwright, Oscar sands, and Big Ju there to clean things up again!
:biggie: Man you was going so well till you place Ju name in there.

Lincoln:
THAT IS FUNNY. cause they were doing the same thing 20 years ago when i wanted to join the force. it did not help back then and it sure does not help now. for ever you find a cop who is not corrupt i will give you a dollar. for every one who is corrupt you give me a dollar wanna bet.

Thats so unfair:tdown: Police officers are not some special people who just magically appear in this country, when recruiting time starts, they are a product of the same society that we ALL live in. So the level of corruption that exsist in the police force, exsists in every other government and private sector!:shhh:
Police officers are who they are because of their upbringing! Six months of training, vetting, investigating, exercising, and fatigue WILL NOT CHANGE A MAN/WOMAN FROM WHAT THEY REALLY ARE! If Johnny used to rob fellas in high school with you, he ga extort money from persons when he get on the force! And there are some of you that may say that the Force should screen persons applying more carefully. But how can they when persons in these neighbourhoods LIE for their friends.They don't wanna cause Johnny not to get the job, eventhough they know Johnny does tief! And lets not talk bout the politicial interference-plenty who in training right now, there cause of they MP!