Harold Crooks absconds to Bermuda
Harold Crooks
We have reported that Harold Crooks, the Jamaican consultant, who was commissioned to evaluate the police force and make recommendations for its improvement, is wanted by Jamaica for sex related offences of an under-aged girl. According to the Jamaica Observer, Crooks who is also the former commandant of the Island’s Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), is believed to be holed up in Bermuda since fleeing the island on March 17.
The newspaper reports that the Jamaican police is not ruling out an extradition request or Interpol intervention. Crooks maintains that he has no confidence in the justice system and that he would die in prison in his country if he is convicted. The newspaper also reports that Crooks holds a US passport which would complicate any extradition request since there is a dispute between the US and Jamaica over Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, a Jamaican strongman who is wanted on charges of alleged gun and drug trafficking.
Crooks is a former security advisor to the Government of Jamaica and has also worked with the United Nations. On the local front, parts of his recommendations on the police department have been put into practice and as recent as this Friday in the budget debate in the House, the Minister of National Security, Carlos Perdomo said other areas will be implemented.
So it seems we put into practice recommendations of sex offendors? What a smart government we have…bravo Mr. Perdomo! Please invite us for the Innaguration of your brain! Seems you have never used it!
Then again! Politicians dem a fraud! in the words of Ras Indio!
The man and his work are two different things. The messenger may be flawed, but the message remains true. We need to improve the police department, no question about that.
We as Belizeans needs to get out of that mental slavery mode.We always assume that every white man of forreigner that go to Belize are superior and some of us Belizea are more educated than some of these people that they bring into our Country to so call educate us.Imagine all the VIP treatment this clung Crooks was getting at the Belizean tat-payers expense.
The man work is a part of him how is that different.
Mr. Crooks why would Jamaican Police Force accuse of sex crime and you quickly pick up and run– if I seem hypocritic I’m sorry __(I really mean to say hypocritic) Just don;t come to the United States.