Daily Black Immigrant News
Attorney General Dale Marshall is calling on able and willing Barbadians to step up and train to become police officers.
The service is to be commended for responding to many of the challenges… with reduced manpower
His appeal comes after what he called “a beautiful uproar” of people online criticizing the level of police service and care. He appealed to the named persons to join the Barbados Police Service.
“We need some good men and women – actually, 250 to be exact,” he encouraged.
“We all know that over the years the Service has not been able to attract the number of recruits it needs. In fact, I can tell you that at the beginning of our last term…we had a separate group in the training school of only 18 officers. Eighteen of our young men and women, only 18 that year were prepared to come forward and join the service. I think the numbers have now gone up significantly and we are now in the 40s.” But he complained that this is not enough and the pace is too slow.
Tongue in cheek, he even pleaded with the bishop at Calvary Temple Community Church, where he was speaking, to urge some of his “stronger” congregants to “come forward.”
The Attorney General says that some people seem to believe that the Service is at full capacity and could be anywhere at any time, but he reiterated that the numbers are nowhere near where they should be.
He said, “The Service is to be commended for responding to many of the challenges they face and even with reduced manpower… [because] At the height of the pandemic you saw the police everywhere, but you would be surprised to know that the numbers were significantly reduced as a large number of officers were in isolation or quarantine, but you would never know it because they continued to provide the same service. which I hope you are used to.”
NewsAmericasNow.com
