THE EDITOR, Sir:

Please try to make the public understand that in good police work, specifically in latent murder investigations, nothing is completely determinable at the initiation of an investigation.

In the quest to solve crimes, if indeed the matter presented in the initial analysis proves to be a suspicious death, there is a complicated process to maintain in order to preserve and allow evidence to assist the case presented. In the Woolmer case, there was a report of a violent scene where obviously someone met his demise. It is now being revealed that, as a result of a thorough and concise investigation into the circumstances leading to Mr. Woolmer's death, the opinion of the experts is death by natural causes.

If the police and medical services had just taken him to hospital, then the morgue, and announced that he merely had had a heart attack, we all know that the shadow that would have followed would have made it appear that the inadequate professional services of the country could not conclusively determine or solve the matter.

It would have been much more embarrassing if the worst-case scenario had not been considered. It's better to assume the worst and work with the presented facts in an open-minded chronological and concise manner, than to jump to conclusions or become non-reactive to a particular set of presented facts.

Finding emotional closure

I know that in a time when public opinion regarding the police is in need of positive results, it's difficult to know that what was thought to be a murder is now being revealed and determined to be sudden death by natural causes. I only hope now that Mr. Woolmer can rest in peace and his family and friends can find some emotional closure to the media wounds.

And most of all, I hope and pray that the police service can put aside any negative opinions and work together on issues more important than criticism and counterproductive thoughts. There are many talented individuals in the force and the saddest result would be for these skilled and capable minds to be wasted with hate and contempt towards one another, rather than initiating a plan for a safer and happier Jamaica.

I am, etc.,

SCOTT NOVAK

ScottNovakwarnov99

@yahoo.com