Suspicious vehicles and safe positions
published: Tuesday | December 24, 2002
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I READ in today's publication - The Gleaner Wednesday, December 18 - of a policeman being injured in a 'shoot-out' in Mocho, Clarendon.
I questioned the strategy of the police approaching vehicles carrying suspicious occupants in a manner that they (the police) become clear-cut shooting targets of these vicious gun-toting animals.
Personal safety demands that once these vehicles are stopped, by the police, whether day or night the law enforcers should take up safe positions around their patrol vehicle initially. Thereafter, the occupants of such vehicles should be commanded to disembark with their hands in the air in clear view of the police. When this command is obeyed, then and only then should the police approach these individuals.
I am certain that this basic method would prevent serious injuries or death to our crime-fighters.
