Trinbago’s Next Top Cop

Written by Mani on January 19, 2010 – 10:28 am -

I don’t understand something.

Bear with me.

Wasn’t it the same Penn State group that the Government of Trinidad and Tobago hired last year to find a new police commissioner? If I remember correctly, they suggested a man named Stephen Williams who they figure was real bes’, the hardest hard, nothing wasn’t touching he, blah, blah, blah…I might be paraphrasing there. Anyway, they thought Stephen Williams was the best man for the job and say, “Look, allyuh, take he!”. But the Government of Trinidad and Tobago wasn’t taking he and for reasons that are still unknown to us they say, “Nah, we doh want that. We go put ah nex’ man instead”. Now, the Penn State people didn’t say nothing about it not having enough candidates or nothing like that. They just liked Stephen Williams. I think it would be rather safe in assuming that present acting commissioner James Philbert was also screened for the position, yet they did not choose him.

So I trying to understand this thing here, why we hire the same set of people here again to do the same wuk that we find they didn’t do good enough the last time? Now follow me here. If Penn State choose the “wrong man” for the wuk, then it have to be that their selection process is flawed…right? If their selection process was on point they would not have chosen the wrong man. So why hire a group that has less than desirable selection methods? It just doh make sense. But nah! We call them back again to give them more money to do the same wuk that we find they didn’t do good the last time.

I wonder if Stephen Williams was a candidate yet again and he was yet again found to be the best candidate for the job if the Government would again ignore the group’s recommendations.

By the way, Penn State is the only group out there in this kind of business?

I don’t know about anyone else, but I can only come up with one conclusion – that the reasons that Stephen Williams was rejected in the first place have absolutely nothing to do with his ability to perform the duties as the Commissioner of Police. The Government of Trinidad and Tobago found Stephen Williams unpalatable for reasons that they would rather not share with us. If this is the case, then it’s not unthinkable that the Penn State group would be hired again. It’s possible that when it comes to choosing a candidate based on qualifications, they are on top of their game. Too bad they not clued in to the bacchanal.

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