THE LATEST Scotland Yard detective to be appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police began work yesterday.
Paul Robinson takes over the management of the Operations and Firearms unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
On May 29 another British officer, John McLean, will join the JCF as assistant commissioner in charge of Community Policing and Crime, the third of four overseas officers to be appointed to that rank. A fourth officer, in the field of professional standards and anti-corruption investigation, pulled out of a contract signing and a replacement is being sought.
ACP Robinson joins Deputy Commissioner in charge of crime, Mark Shields, and ACP Les Green who were seconded from Scotland Yard last year as part of a joint-funding agreement by the United Kingdom government.
ACP Green is responsible for homicide and serious crime investigation and was one of several British officers working in an advisory capacity under Operation Kingfish.
JOINT FUNDING
Announced last October, the strategy to recruit foreign officers, funded partly by the British government, was advertised in that country, the United States, Canada and Australia. However only British candidates were successful.
Gilbert Scott, permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, had called the recruitment campaign an "infusion of a body of talent from outside (which) will help to accelerate modernisation."
