A former Officer of the Royal St Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force Sydney Morgan, reacting to the recent transfers of three Police Officers following a leaked voice note in which they suggested a storming of the Prime Minister’s office, said, the matter could have been dealt with differently.
Morgan in a Facebook post said transfers would not solve the problem that the men are faced with. The former cop advocated what should have been done was to sit and talk with them and see how best their issues can be dealt with.
“If our policemen and women are not treated well then they won’t perform well”, Morgan said in his Facebook Post.
A leaked voice note which first surfaced on the Shakeup Program on WeFm, heard some members of the Police welfare association airing their grievances about some lingering issues.
The voice note also suggested a storming of the Prime Minister’s office to get those issues fleshed out since according to the officers, there was no traction on the matter at the Police High Command level.
“In those recordings, I have heard some issues raised, but no one seems to care, all we hear is (storm), I know that Brenton Smith one of the cops who was transferred is a wise police, he has always been fighting for a better working condition for the men he represents”.
“We all will interpret what was said in our way; maybe it is because of articles which Smith would have written, I don’t know”, Morgan said.
“Many on the outside looking in will not understand what these people have to go through daily, I was once in the kitchen, so I understand”, the retired cop said.
Morgan said it is his hope that the leadership of the force meet with the welfare executive and try to iron these issues out.
Morgan noted some of those issues have to be dealt with in house, and others with the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security.
The men at heart of the issue are Sergeant Brenton Smith, Constable Kenroy Martin and Constable Jeremain Roberts; all three were reassigned to different postings following a meeting with the Police High Command.
Smith was transferred to Union Island in the Southern Grenadines, Martin to Chateaubelair a town on the North Western coast of the island, and Roberts was reassigned to Owia, a village in the North Eastern section of the country.
