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Advice to the Compol

EditorialAdvice to the Compol
Listen, Mr. Compol, we admire your bravery, and applaud your career success. But you need to understand how your problems with the media began. Your problems began when you were the poster boy for the PUP security response to popular resistance in Belmopan and Belize City, beginning in 2005. In doing your job as best as you could, you made enemies amongst the people. The media were doing their jobs as best as they could, and in their so doing, you Crispin Jeffries, became the poster boy for a Musa/Fonseca government which the people despised for more than three years before they succeeded in replacing them in February 2008. It wasn’t personal on the media’s part: it was business, the same way it was business when you personally took the bull by the horns several times during the popular protests in 2005 and 2006. 
  
At this point in your career, Mr. Compol, just do your job and don’t allow the media to get you hot and bothered. Your job is a difficult one. The Police Department has to do a lot of dirty work for the ruling politicians. We can tell you this, that we have no personal or particular beef with you. Our advice is sincere. We know you for forty years, and we know you are not a demon. We assume you are not a saint, but which Commissioner in the modern era before you, was?
         
Remember this, Mr. Commissioner. Some of those in the media who grill you may be more literate and educated than you are. Don’t worry about that, Compol. The Commissioner’s job is not an academic one. Nobody in the media is as brave as you are. That is why you are Commissioner. Your courage is commendable. Be what you are. Don’t get caught up in “isms” and “schisms.” We, the people, know how difficult your job is. And we wish you the very best. Carry on smartly.

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