JCF expo sparks career interest from students
Published:Saturday | May 13, 2023 | 1:14 AMAndre Williams/Gleaner Writer
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) Transformations 2023: People, Quality and Technology Expo is already having a positive impact on young, impressionable minds, with some students contemplating a career in national security.
Yesterday, Calabar High’s Jerome Drackett said he has seen and learnt so much he is ready to serve his nation.
The ninth-grader told The Gleaner that his family employment background is in line with security, so it would come as no surprise.
He said: “I have seen the SWAT team, Maritime and K9 division. I saw stuff that I didn’t know before. I usually think that you can just join the SWAT team, but you have to be part of the force for a number of years and then they would select you based on your performance.”
Drackett said he would definitely consider joining the JCF and that his experience at the expo left a positive impression.
Shanoya Dennie told The Gleaner that she had no interest in the event and had it not been for her daughter, she would have missed out.
“We were just passing and my daughter insisted that we must take a look. Both her and my son are happy we did,” Dennie said.
Detective Sergeant Jerome Hobbs, who interacted with guests at ‘scene of crime’ booth, said many of the children saw the value in a scene and being able to solve the crime.
“So much is on a crime scene that will act as a trace to the killer. It’s up to us to find it, send it to the necessary agents for them to do analysis, and we can solve crime,” he said.
He further shared that the children, with whom he has been engaged since Thursday, have a greater appreciation for the work of the police.
“We spend two hours on the crime scene because quality must come from it to be reproduced in the back end, the courts. Based on that I feel these students are expressing a desire, an interest in the science. We are seeing what they learn in high school, they come in here and say ‘wow’, and they make the link to say I must do better now to have a future, especially in a field like this,” Det. Sgt. Hobbs said.
Even seniors like Errol Archer, who was visiting Jamaica, had a greater appreciation for the work carried out by scene of crime detectives.
“The rest of the booths look good, this (crime scene) a the wickedest. A wi own black brothers do this (murder) to each other. People can’t enjoy dominoes again,” Archer said.