ComPol Chides Opposition Leader over Remarks on Crime  

On Wednesday, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams issued a release refuting claims made by Leader of the Opposition Moses “Shyne” Barrow in his State of the Nation address. As we reported, Barrow said that murders were up by forty percent year-to-date. ComPol Williams contended that, in fact, murders are down by one percent. Today, he told reporters that the Opposition Leader is insane for blaming the police and government for crimes being committed.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I find it strange that my friend, the leader of one of the opposition, I think they have two, right,  tend to  speak of crime and  equate  the occurrences of crime to the effectiveness, ineffectiveness of the police  or the government. As a person who had in the past committed a crime and convicted of a crime, I am sure that he could attest that  despite the fact that the U.S. is a first world country,  they possess all the technology  to be able to fight crime and prevent crime, he was still able to commit a crime for which he was convicted. And I am sure that he didn’t blame the police in the U. S.  for the crime he committed.  Neither did he blame the government of the U. S. for the crime he committed. He took responsibility for it.  So, for him to now try to blame the police or the government for a crime being committed is rather insane.”