Trainee Constable Faces Magistrate Over $700 Property Damage

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A trainee Special Constable is set to appear before a District B Magistrate today to answer a charge of maliciously damaging property valued at $700.

The incident dates back two years, when the trainee, then in training, clashed with Superintendent Louisa Benjamin-Quashie and was dismissed from the force.

After legal intervention, the trainee was reinstated, despite ongoing tensions with Commandant Quashie, who opposed his return to training school.

Initially assigned desk duties at police headquarters, the trainee was eventually sent back to training at the old Navy Base owned by Social Security.

During a routine inspection, staff discovered a significant hole in the partition of his living quarters. Unable to explain the damage, the trainee was arrested and charged with malicious damage.

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8 COMMENTS

  2. This is such as shame as to how this matter is handled! This is the same recruit that was dismissed amidst catching the covid 19 at Training School and i had to go publicly in order for him to get back his job. Perhaps he is not police material; just perhaps! But charging him criminally for an internal simple crap and then placing him in the cells at st.john police ststion; and his attorney getting hell to granting him station bail for a malicious damage charge of $700… Is tantamountto a load of sh…what is our motto in the Force reakly?? What are our aims and objectives to the public we serve? Shouldnt our energy be focused on the crimes that plaguing the business community, the robberies, the unsolved mursers, the thefts; etc. I happen to know that Wayne Marsh is a damn good attorney abd will see him through! However, if the objective is to start from within the organisation, theb malicious damage is not where to begin! Start much higher! Commissioner Rodney, please take congtol of your Force!!!

    Wendel Alexander
    formerly Wendel Robinson

  3. MALICIOUS DAMAGE BY TRAINEE SPECIALL CONSTABLE…? WHAT THE HELL…!
    COMMANDMANT ANTICIPATED TROUBLE: …ADMINISTRATION RECKLESS…?

    Though a’…Dog’ may have been ‘Beaten’ for ‘…Eating Fowl Eggs,’ no kind of beating would stop it from ‘Eating,’ even ‘…Ants Eggs.’

    FEARLESS AND GUTSY

    Clearly, the apparent ‘…FEARLESS and GUTSY’ Commandant, ‘…Superintendent of Police, Louisa Benjamin-Quashie’ has seen that which an apparent …Laissez-faire Police High Command’ may not have seen.

    TRAINING AND DISCIPLINE
    The female ‘…Commandant,’ clearly concerned about:

    (a) ‘…Training: and

    (b) …Organizational Discipline.

    AFFIRMATIVE LEADERSHIP

    The action reportedly taken, speaks to nothing but ‘…AFFIRMATIVE LEADERSHIP.’
    No ‘…pussyfooting or flying around.’ COMMENDABLE.

    NOW:

    Luckily, no ‘…Malicious Damage’ was reportedly committed to the officially known, and justifiably named ‘…SIR WRIGHT GEORGE POLICE TRAINING ACADEMY (SWGPTA),’ seemingly ‘…OFFICIALLY, DESPICABLY AND DISGRACEFULLY’ abandoned for disrepair.

    FIRST COMMANDANT

    It was not just the ‘…RE-NAMING, and the associated ‘…POMP AND CEREMONY,’ but for his role as the very ‘…First Langford Police Training School (LPTS) COMMANDANT’ as ‘…Assistant Superintendent of Police’ [1968], and subsequent rise to the prestigious …COMMISSIONERSHIP.’

    ROLL IN THE GRAVE

    At least, though he may frown about the seeming callous disrespect, ‘…SIR WRIGHT’ remains very much alive.

    ANTSY RECRUITS

    Thus, no need to rely upon ‘…ANTSY’ (new word) RECRUITS’ to bring him news, thereunder.

    Neither would he be made to ‘…Roll in the Grave.’

    ‘…NO TICKING BOMB’ SHALL EXPLODE [First commenter].

  6. This hole thing is not funny. Why being so harsh. How did a hole get into the wall? More questions than answer

  7. Commissioner Pompey. I read your comments. Firstly, he is not a Special Constable. He is a police officer who already past probation period. Secondly, this is not the kind of case to warrant a police constable on training to be criminally charged; our focus should be on much more serious crimes that are happening in a brazen fashion. Thirdly, all kind of gamea to give the young man bail and placing him in the cells when the police including Supt Quashie has the authority to effect open and close arrests…the law is there Commissioner Pompey…no police administration if it worth its salt would have operationalised this case in such a manner! I am so disappointed. The Commissioner must control those senior officers who either dont understand the law and the law of discretion! Commissioner Rodney must weigh the scale of justice and balance at the top…flanked by his deputies, he must bring his many years of experiences and critical acumen to bear upon his job. At the end of the day, the charges are in the name of the Commissioner of Police. Time will tell….!

  8. I once tried to trouble Quashie cause I find her attractive and didn’t know Quashie was her marriage tittle…Boy oh boy she made me feel like a Police recruit who just crossed the line LOL..She cool though I still like her….Just felt like being random…

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