I must confess to being more than a little bewildered over yesterday's policing changes. While George Jackson, a genuinely good guy who was my neighbour for many years in Prospect, was appointed Commissioner and Roseanda Jones Deputy, the Governor - presumably with the approval of the Government - went on to add a new position:
“I will be appointing a senior officer from the United Kingdom to fill this post, with responsibility for Crime, Narcotics and Intelligence and for providing support to senior officers, by way of mentoring and training, so as to ensure smooth succession planning in the Service.”
Can someone help me out here. If the new Assistant from the UK is responsible for crime, narcotics, intelligence, training and mentoring, just what will the Commissioner be responsible for? Isn't that about everything the police deal with? The only thing that it really excludes is traffic.
It may indeed be the right move for the reasons outlined at the end of the article, but if I was the new Commissioner I'd be wondering who's working for who and who's setting policy here.
Posted by Christian S. Dunleavy