San Pedro Police Officer Says There is No Love for Cops on the Island Amidst COVID-19 Spread!

So, as you heard at the top of the news, five police officers attached to the San Pedro Police have tested positive for the COVID-19; but several others are also out of work, in isolation, after they started to experience flu-like symptoms. Superintendent Christopher Noble told the press today that they are checking on those officers and have made the Employee Assistance Programme available to them. But one police officer took to Facebook over the weekend to share his frustration. He writes, “We have been going through [bleep] here in San Pedro and nobody cares about us being frontline workers.” He continues, “We as San Pedro Police Station should be setting standards and where is our standards?”  In his statement, he expressed concerns about taking the virus home to his family and begged for help through his post. Superintendent Noble was asked about this statement shared by his officer.

Christopher Noble

Supt. Christopher Noble, Officer in Charge, San Pedro

“I saw the post as him trying to reach out to somebody for some sort of assistance. Manuel is a part of our programme because of his condition. Now, he does have other issues.   I just spoke to Manuel and the closest I can come to is that I was chastising him about behavior. But that is not to say that everybody follows in the same. He has friends he was out with who have tested positive, including police officers who are symptomatic. But whatever he posted – I can’t say why he would have made the post. I can’t say what made him make the post. He has since been in quarantine or isolation for about two days because he got back his results, I believe yesterday. He is still having some difficulties, not to say difficulties departmentally.”