ROADTOWN TortolaBVI,  September 2rd, 2011 --  This is according to the feedback that one of the hosts of the radio talk show “On the Hot Seat”, Carl Dawson allegedly received from youths. Mr. Dawson, speaking on the programme aired September 21, 2011, expressed his disagreement with the composition of the RVIPF, which he said has too many expatriates.

The caller asked why the Customs Department employs “99 percent if not a hundred percent of BVIslanders and the same goes to Immigration. It all in the name of national security but what seems to be the problem with the police force? Why BVIslanders have no interest in joining the police force?”

Mr Dawson responded by stating that VIslanders were willing to serve in the RVIPF.

“I did some research and I went out and I spoke to some youngsters about joining the police force and they said to me we will join the police force any day but we want to be told what track we are going to be placed on and what examinations because as longs as we know we have to pass an examination when we get into the police force we will join and we are going to get promoted, not by ascription but by performance, we will join because they say the police force have a habit of keeping down the locals,” Mr. Dawson claimed.

The talk show host believes also that locals should be encouraged and trained to take top positions within the police force just as other countries have been doing.

“The emerging countries of the Third World have taken graduates. They have put some into school so that their own people could be fast tracked. When they come out as an economist…they send them in to a police training school for a short period and short-track them up the ranks to the police force So that their own people will be in charge of the police force.

Are we going to colonialise and imperialise our country? Because I understand our local police chief will be retiring soon. Where have we organised our system to put one of our boys and girls in charge of our country in the police force?”

Meanwhile, Mr. Dawson is also against expanding the numbers in the RVIPF since he believes it is the methods of policing that needs to be addressed. “Putting a town load of police on the road to lock up people is not an answer, it has never been and it will never be.

The policemen that you do have, the smaller number, needs to be socialised. You can’t put them in a car to drive up and down the road like they are tourists and expect that you are going to find solutions.

So if we are going to do something about our policing methods let us wake up and change our style instead of just buying all these motorcars because we have the money. Let us go back to the drawing board and socialise the police,” Mr. Dawson emphasised.

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