Last night on 7news, Dominique Noralez, the Chairlady of the Leadership Intervention Unit spoke about her program's successes in 2024 - especially the latter part - when only four murders were recorded in the last 5 months of the year.
Now it's the police who usually get the praise for these outcomes, but Noralez claimed to share in that success. And when we asked her about Compol Chester, she cooly said, quote, "I don't chase the the praise of others...I think that's what separates us because I am not distracted by public praise."
Now we could hear Compol Chester saying"ouch" on that one- but today he gave no sign of mortal injury - he gave an even handed response and said there is a lot of praise to go around:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"You all would be able to know in every interview where the issue of success and reduction in crime is concerned I have never taken the praise alone. I've always said that it is a combination of different factors and I've always put LIU at the center of it because we do recognize and appreciate the work that LIU does on a daily basis. It does contribute to our effectiveness. We do not discount people who are playing an integral role in terms of what we do and so LIU is a part of what we do but apart from that we have other factors that we must also give consideration to. So I really don't understand what she meant by me chasing praises because I don't do that. I am one man and I alone cannot reduce crime. While I am the head of the police department, I am policy maker, the policies that I make or the strategies I put together would not be worth the paper they're written on if the people on the grounds do not execute them properly so I give the praises to my commanders, to the foot soldiers, those constable, corporals, sergeants who hit the pavement everyday and execute our policies. They are the ones I give the praises to because they are the ones who are out there doing what needs to be done so I remain humble in terms of what I do and I am grateful to my commanders and every other organization that works with the police including LIU and Brother Nuri and his team to ensure that we were able to reduce crime the way we did two successive years."
Courtney Menzies:
"Would you say that the LIU plays more of a role in that mediation process?"
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Everybody plays a role in what we're doing. Interventions or mediations are critical. When we have information of feuds developing like we are having now, our duty is to step in and do what we need to do to diffuse the feud from going any further. And yes there are some mediation that behavior modification would be a part of and there are some that Brother Nuri and Footy Gongora would be a part of and so I value the effort of both teams. At the end of the day everybody or every organizations or any factors that can lend to the reduction in crime, I welcome it."
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