The recent news coming out of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) that some 300 trained crime-scene investigators will soon hit the streets should offer this country some sense of hope that the crime problem is being addressed.

It would have made me feel better if those already there were doing at least a reasonable job, however from what I see, there is no serious attempt at solving crime. The current crime-scene investigators, in my own experience, visit a crime scene as a matter of course, with no specific purpose in mind.

Do a better job

Having recently experienced a break-in, I am appalled at the way the police treat victims of crime and the way they seek to carry out their mandate to serve, protect and reassure. They seem to be more interested in collecting statistics than they are in solving crime.

After six days of my own break-in, a statement has not been taken, as there is always a murder somewhere that has them tied down. The excuses are many.

It makes me wonder why they complained when a group of businessmen in Mandeville came together to form a group to protect themselves, their families and loved ones and their property. After all, if one gets the feeling that all the police are going to do is offer some 'sympathy' when one is robbed or otherwise maligned, then they must take steps to do more.

There must be a police force that is more than a hustler institution, where if a person is not of a certain class or able to 'grease someone's palm', his needs are addressed.

I am, etc.,

St Andrew