THE police commissioner has instructed constabulary members, including senior officers, to make no public comment on the Crawle trial and Reneto Adams, including the cop’s venture into the music industry with a song threatening all criminals.

Adams’ song, apparently recorded before he was acquitted Tuesday of the May 2003 killings of four persons in Crawle, Clarendon, listed a range of places, including ‘uptown and downtown garrisons’, and warned that the criminals there would find no peace with him back on the job.

The Crime Management Unit, which Adams led, had gone to Crawle in search of wanted man Bashington ‘Chen Chen’ Douglas, who escaped the house unhurt on the day of the killings.

“Reneto is here to please you,” the cop chants in his song. “I’m not here to deceive you.”

He then names communities like Tivoli Gardens, Matthews Lane, Jones Town, Grants Pen, and more, and threatens to put Mountain View under ‘permanent curfew’.

But on Friday, when the Sunday Observer sought comment from the commissioner on the song and its implications, spokesman for the Jamaica Constabulary, Karl Angell, said the ban on comments extended to that issue.

“We have no comment,” said Angell, when pressed for official word.

Adams, a senior superintendent, is the second known cop to have flirted with the music industry under controversial circumstances.

Superintendent Gladstone Wright is the co-writer of a song recorded by incarcerated rapist Siccaturie Alcock, which Wright is actively promoting, saying his motive was altruistic and was meant to assist with Alcock’s rehabilitation and give fillip to the wider prison rehab programmes.

Adams, whose now disbanded unit had been linked to a range of controversial police shootings since 2001, is to undergo a year of psychological evaluation and counselling, as are the other policemen who were tried with him, and acquitted, for the Crawle killings.

The song was apparently recorded before Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas issued that directive.

Born July 11, 1948, Adams entered the police force on July 17, 1967, a week after his 19th birthday, according to police enlistment records.

Adams turned 57 this year, and so has just about two-and-a-half more years left in the force – cops retire at age 60.

He is seen by some Jamaicans as the answer to crime, but his collars

have largely failed to net any of the masterminds who control and finance the ‘shottas’ – young men who kill and cause mayhem on the orders of their bosses.

Operation Kingfish has had more success in that regard, bringing down the top two gangsters in the Gideon Warriors gang – Joel Andem and Kevin ‘Richie Poo’ Tyndale – leading to the gang’s dismantling; and taking down Donovan ‘Bulbie’ Bennett, who had been wanted for murder and extortion for more than a decade, leaving his Clansman gang in disarray.

Other cops have investigated Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps, who was placed before the courts this year to answer to murder.

In seeming acknowledgement of Kingfish’s successes, one dance advertisement posted on the back windshield of a taxi – an increasingly popular form of cheap advertising – promised ‘Security: Kingfish style’.

Adams’ song promises that he would increase his activities tenfold.