ONLINE FEEDBACK

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted by readers online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com reacting to yesterday's lead story, 'Stand-off - cops INDECOM at odds over probes'.

• Get rid of the criminals in uniform

Congratulations, Mr Williams.

Please make the Jamaican people proud by helping to clean up and get rid of these criminals in the police force wearing the people's uniform and masquerading as policemen!

Mr Raymond Wilson (Police Federation chairman) I urge you to stand firm and tell your members that if they don't like it, they must leave, because it's only in Jamaica they can do this foolishness. You can also remind them that they would have it very difficult to get a policeman's job elsewhere in the world, once they mention Jamaica! They will be subjected to this same line of questioning, just to have an interview even before they would be hired. So they must understand that things and times are changing and they must adopt and comply with the INDECOM team.

- noshel

• Terminate them now

If these officers are not cooperating with the investigation of the shooting death of a 16-year-old, then they should be terminated immediately and stripped of their firearms.

- vass

• Book all corrupt officials

If the rank-and-file membership of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) behaved in a more professional and respectful manner in its interaction with the general public, then there would likely be no need for INDECOM. Mr. Williams and other INDECOM members, don't be deterred by the actions and complaints of the rank-and-file membership of the JCF.

While most Jamaicans would welcome a wholesale cleansing and purging of the miscreants and malcontents, the cancerous, corrupt and criminal out of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ), if it means starting with the minnows and working our way up to the apex predators, then let's do it. The vast majority of public servants in the JCF and elsewhere in government who are doing right in their jobs and by the public, need to expose the idiots in their midst who tarnish their reputation. We want justice, not just for the common criminal, but for those GOJ employees who behave just like them.

- TrevDiMan

• No retreat, Mr Williams

The truth will set you free. Continue to lean forward Mr Williams as there must be no retreat in getting to the bottom of these shootings. There will be roadblocks thrown in your way, but you must go over, around and through them.

- M. View

• 100% support for Williams

This is the first time in my life I have seen such a firm stance against the police. They thought Mr Williams would be cowered like prime ministers and ministers of security. What we need now is for more of them to do their job and stop collecting taxpayers' money for nothing. Take the law to the police, Mr Williams, without fear or favour, and know that we are behind you 100 per cent.

- Joan