MP Jess condemns alarming increasing in police fatal shootings and demands system overhaul
/ Our Today
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Zuleika Jess MP, Opposition Spokesperson on Justice, has fiercely condemned the fatal police shooting of an unarmed woman in Granville, St. James, declaring that the standard bureaucratic response of interdicting officers is a soft, unacceptable insult to the families of victims.
“We are tired of the cookie-cutter press releases and the routine removal from front-line duties of officers while citizens bleed out on our streets,” Jess stated. “Interdiction is not accountability; it is a paid vacation for pulling a trigger. The slaughter of an unarmed woman in Granville is not an isolated mishap, it is a devastating symptom of a policing culture that treats our citizens as targets first and human beings last.”
MP Zuleika Jess denounced the terrifying upward trend in fatal police shootings with the latest INDECOM data revealing that 130 persons have already been shot and killed by members of the security forces this year. Jess stressed that the state’s response remains fundamentally broken.
“The numbers do not lie, and they are painting our communities red,” Jess lamented. “When police fatal killings rise while convictions of rogue officers remain microscopic, the system is not failing by accident; it is protecting rogue officers by design. The police high command cannot hide behind the shield of mere interdiction while unarmed women are killed.”
Jess is demanding the immediate, non-negotiable implementation of Body-Worn Cameras (BWCs) by police officers, especially during planned operations.
“It is an absolute disgrace that in this modern era, police fatal encounters continue to happen without the benefit of body cameras,” Jess declared. “We reject any executive excuses dismissing these tools. BWCs are not an administrative luxury; they provide the objective evidence required to preserve life, protect public confidence, and stop the ‘he-said, she-said’ lies that follow these executions.”
“The Granville killing must be the absolute breaking point,” Jess concluded. “We will no longer accept the inaction of the state. The police cannot serve, protect, and reassure in the dark the truth must be recorded.”
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