JCF duty officers to get SUVs — Montague
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of National Security, Robert Montague yesterday announced that Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) duty officers are to receive 19 mid-sized Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs).
The minister made the disclosure at the thanksgiving service for Assistant Commissioner Winchroy Budhoo at the Palmer’s Cross Seventh Day Adventist Church in Clarendon.
He said the suggestion was presented to him by ACP Budhoo and that the procurement process had already begun for the vehicles.
“Divisional officers when doing inspections are short on vehicles and sometimes have to use their own vehicles. Government ought to provide vehicles for the duty officers in each division,” Montague said.
He added that the ministry has ordered a new hearse for police personnel to be transported on the final leg of their journey.
“Our police officers must be buried with the dignity they deserve,” he said.
“In his honour, I am pleased to announce that the government is moving to change the policy that states if an officer is not serving in the line of duty, that he/she cannot be buried with full honours. A police officer is always on duty and if he dies in the line of a duty he is a police officer he must be buried with full honours. It is the least we can do,” Montague said.
In hailing the exemplary life of ACP Budhoo, Montague said: “He took me in when he did not have to
. He gave me advice when I did not ask for it. ACP Budhoo in my view was a policeman’s police, a gentleman, a humble man and a true professional.”