Last Saturday saw the sad, premature burial of the wife of a dedicated RCIPS officer and mother of a young child at Boatswain Bay.
This tearful occasion was eased by the church ceremony in which Minister Rolston Anglin gave a compassionate and dignified obituary. At the cemetery where mourning family, friends and colleagues gathered to lay her young body to rest, a persistent cacophony of grins, laughter and cell phone use came from a small group of law enforcement officials sheltering in the shade of an almond tree a few yards away.
At one point the lone majestic sentinel Harry Cupid, standing erect in the blazing noon day sun, turned and pleaded for quiet with raised hands. This noisy group included the non-essential but apparently irreplaceable highest law enforcement official in the land who took the opportunity of the lowering of the casket to engage in a protracted cell phone conversation accompanied by bursts of laughter. We know this could not be essential state business because he was off island on official business last year for 58 days during which time the Cayman Islands survived and even prospered.
The RCIPS has made repeated calls for the banning of cell phones in cars but some of their disrespectful membership cannot resist their use at even the most solemn of occasions. The people of this great and wonderful land including our much criticized youth cannot be expected to follow example when none comes from those we most expect to set standards. The bright shining exception Rolston Anglin, our future for good governance, saved the day.
So now we wait in blind hope for the Almond Tree Cacophony to become the Regretful Symphony and call the bereaved husband with genuine expressions of regret for what cannot be conduct to be repeated. I am driven to a position of sympathy for the commissioner who is burdened by the persistent public misbehaviour of his entrenched middle management with their irregular standards of conduct.
Peter Polack
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