Dear Editor,

I have observed letters in various print media about returning district constables to their districts. However, the same way that letters are highlighting the vending problems on the streets, use the same means to help and lobby for the return of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF). They were a force to reckon with and were more recognised than the district constables, who some people are now asking to do enforcement on the roads and resort areas.

Since the merging of the ISCF and the Jamaica Constabulary Force vendors have taken over the town centres islandwide. Everything is out of control. The town centres are not being policed.

Peter Phillips, while the minister of national security, positioned the ISCF to take over the town centres to prevent vending and keep town centres safe, as well as taking on praedial larceny, while the JCF concentrated on hard core crime fighting. These measures worked very well until the Government took the wrong decision to remove them by way of merger.

From what I see, there was no good reason to merge both forces.

Also, I am not sure what Minister Robert Montague is up to, but he needs to start something!

Concern Jamaican