Adams
WHAT QUALIFIES Adams to speak about leadership and motivation? Absolutely nothing! Examine his track record at the Crime Management Unit (CMU).
1. Within the first 12 months the High Command had to intervene three times at Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF) Why? The men and women were threatening to stop working due to his leadership style. Among their complaint were his lack of respect to them and most surprisingly they pointed out the lack of respect being shown to the leaders from SACTF.
2. Within 12 months the members of the SACTF were reporting sick at an unprecedented rate due to Adams' leadership style - was that motivation?
3. After the 1st 12-months a review of the CMU was mandated due to complaints by its members as well as decent citizens of this country. This is the only unit to be reviewed after such a short period of existence.
4. In the period following the review internal conflicts erupted among Adams and his team of 22 (CMU). There were charges and counter-charges of corruption. There were complaints about sharing of money. More than 1/2 of the men reported sick. Adams himself responded by asking the High Command to investigate the allegations of corruption proclaiming his innocence.
5. The commissioner of police invited the team members who were complaining to meet with him and discuss the issue. In the end those members were transferred due to the untidy state of affairs at the CMU. There were no complaints from those transferred.
6. Some of those transferred publicly stated that they loved Adams as a person but had a major problem with his leadership style which include issues of disrespect and selfishness. All praises they felt were going to Adams who rarely, if ever, publicly commended them. In any case they felt his excessive public talking damaged rather than helped their cause.
7. In the end Adams led operations resulted in a single policeman being charged with 11 counts of murder - unprecedented in the history of the JCF. There are still many incomplete files to be eventually ruled on by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Adams could not lead and motivate 22 members of the CMU. What qualifies him then to criticise those leading thousands of men and women? Absolutely nothing!
Whilst he awaits his day in court to answer a charge of murder, Adams must shut up and put up! If only for the sake of his former colleagues.
From a concerned Member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)
