The Editor, Sir:

The motto of the Jamaican Constabulary Force (JCF) is 'We Protect, Reassure and Serve'.

However, many of our police officers are not living up to their motto as they fail miserably in making the citizens of this country feel protected.

Our police force has slowly become reactive, instead of proactive. In Jamaica today, when a threat is made against one's life one has to take it seriously.

A way of doing that is to report it to a police station. However, these days when threats are reported, the police respond nonchalantly.

Only recently, repeated threats were made against several family members of a family I am close to. The matter was reported to the local police, as well as his supervisor upon which they promised to investigate the matter.

Several weeks after nothing has been done and the com-plainants lives are still at risk. Is this reactiveness or recklessness?

I have often heard other persons lambasting the police officers for the scant regard paid to address serious matters.

I use this medium to call on all Jamaicans to demand the JCF to get its act together. I ask, should they wait until persons are killed, then they follow leads to have the cases solved, or should they try to prevent any killing?

It is high time the Jamaican police force wake up out of their slumber and start to be proactive in serving, reassuring and protecting the citizens of Jamaica because that is what they are being paid to do.

I am, etc.,

M. DAWKINS-

McPHERSON

Marisadawkins@yahoo.com

Boscobel P O

St Mary