by Linda Straker
- 82 positive cases within Royal Grenada Police Force as of 4 September
- All officers currently on leave asked to return to active duty
- Grenada’s police force numbers no more than 1,000
Deputy Commissioner of Police Michael Francois said that an increase in infections of Covid-19 among police officers have left the management no other option but to request that all officers who are currently on annual leave to report for duty at their respective duty stations.
On Monday, 30 August 2021, Commissioner of Police Edvin Martin disclosed that 18 officers were Covid-19 positive, however, in a news conference on 4 September, Francois announced that the numbers had significantly increased. “I can confirm to you now, that as of today there are 82 positive cases within the Royal Grenada Police Force. Yes, this is significantly affecting the operations of the RGPF.”
“As of today, we have instructed all our police officers who are on annual leave to report back to their duty stations in order to augment all of the remaining staff to ensure we can cover all of our operations’ requirements as we go through this period,” Francois said.
“The Royal Grenada Police Force is stretched at this time with respect to all that is expected to be provided for the enforcement of these regulations.” Francois was speaking in a news conference that provided the public with rules and regulations of the tighter restrictions as announced by Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell during a national address on Friday night.
“We are still expected to carry out our normal law enforcement functions of fire, immigration, coast guard, and all the other functions that we are expected to perform,” he said. Grenada’s police force numbers no more than 1,000.
“And at the same time, many of our officers, because they belong to the community just as all of our citizens, they will come down with certain diseases as well,” Francois said, projecting that more officers will become infected. “Yes, we are affected, and we will be affected as other police officers are infected,” he said.
The Ministry of Health declared days ago that the island is affected by community spread of the virus, and that that there are 994 active local cases of Covid-19 and 10 imported cases, as of 4 September.
How many of these officers are sick and in the hospitals needing care? Someone testing positive for Covid is not a death sentence. For most of the population it’s just a mild cold and some have no symptoms. Covid is something we have to learn to live with.
My suggestion to Kesri is to not seek any medical (medicine) treatment should he contract COVID-19 since he wants to wait until 2023 because of what appears to be his mistrust in medicine. Also since he feels that persons should not be forced to take the vaccines then the 1hospital and Doctors on the Island should not be forced to treat him or the persons he is trying to dissuade with his misinformation.
The police are Grenada security forces in all aspects because we don’t have an army to protect our country therefore we depends on their services for all forms of protection may it be civil unrest or domestic violence they are the ones who have to deal with it .
To learn that such a high number are infected says a lot about the administration.
I have been saying from the beginning that the government should have started testing it’s citizens a long time ago now they started and the numbers are rocketing.
One other point to consider is the people now organising free testing for citizens..please get organized before you set date and time …..I.e make sure you have a system,enough staffs,get there early like half an hour before starting time ,line set up…
One for registration one testing and one for results bearing in mind the privacy needed
This is very concerning and simultaneously extremely disappointing.
This indicates that close to 10% of the islands active cases are through the RGPF. Why are they not vaccinated? In essence, they are functioning as superspreaders. They interact daily with dozens, if not hundreds of citizens. If 82 officers within the force have contracted covid, how many people within the community have been exposed to this same cluster? My guess is easily in the hundreds.
If we really wanted to curb the spread of the dangerous disease, vaccination of the front line, essential personnel like officers should be a no brainer.
Please everyone, go get vaccinated. It is perfectly safe, and very may save your life. The virus is not a joke, and the quicker we can come together, the quicker we can begin to embark back to normalcy.
I wonder what percentage of police officers are vaccinated?
they were amongst the very first to be offered it along with other front-line workers.
perhaps it should simply be mandatory, just as in tourism?
Mandatory…..Hell No.
No one have a moral right to Force a Free Individual to inject an Experimental mRNA drug into their body.
There is no long term saftey data….and the short term 8 months of data shows …. tens of thousands of related deaths and millions of long term injuries…..Worldwide.
Those who mRNA injected are possibly now getting infected and then spreading their infection to everyone….. because although its suppose to reduce CV19 symptoms it does not prevent infection of the SarsCov2 virus.
The latest Data from Israel, show most people survive SarsCov2 and that Natural Immunity is 13.5 times stronger and last longer, than the Immunity of the mRNA injected.
Thats why its wise to wait until the full assessment of the safety data due in 2023, and not surrender to propaganda to inject immediately.
If I were a Police Officer, I would do as I am trained do and ask… where is the long term Safety Evidence?. When you got that Evidence, get back to me.
Kesri, you are quoting the same data that you are admonishing. You say that the data collected in Israel indicates natural immunity is more effective than a vaccine, yet the data collected for many years on the safety of mRNA vaccinations should be discredited? What about the 400+ million Americans whom have safely received the vaccination? Sounds like a pretty large sample size to me. To me, it sounds like you are picking and choosing what you want to believe, and you are trying to brainwash others into your same, unfounded mindset. This is literally KILLING people. Also, you may not understand what natural immunity is, so I will explain it to you. That means that you must get sick with covid, survive, and potentially have lifelong neurologic and physiologic adverse effects before your body has said immunity. Meanwhile, you could instead opt for a shot in your arm, maybe have a sore arm for a few days, and stand a much better chance at protecting yourself from infection AND your loved ones as well. If I were a police officer, I would get the vaccine because it has been irrefutably shown to limit the spread of COVID to yourself, your loved ones, and the community.
Jose first of all thank you for taking the time to explain Natural Immunity, I appreciate it.
However there really is no Contradiction about the Immunity of the Experimental mRNA injections which are being used for the very first time on Human guinea pigs, with no safety data.
The Millions of people injected in the short term in no way substitute data or evidence of long term safety.
The only long term safety data for mRNA injections….. were done in Mice and Minks some years ago, and resulted in nearly all the mice and minks, dying due to ADE Antibody Disease Enhancement when they encounter wild virus.
Hence the loud objections to mRNA being used in Humans at the onset, but Trump and FDA pressed on with operation Warp Speed.
This also is why Israel and the CDC are now panicking because they have injected millions of people with the mRNA drug which have resulted in an enhanced risk to Wild CV19 Mutations such as….. Delta and apparently MU.
Both of which are able to evade the vital IgG and IgA Antibodies, jyst as the Winter Influenza and SarsCov2 season are fast approaching.
My guess is that most of the Police Officer’s are getting infected they already Injected, because they trusted what they were advised….very small risk and very rare risks etc…..instead of the Informed Consent ADE elephant in the room….. as warned by eminent Epidemiologists worldwide.
I can only hope everyone who injected will be all right but this is just eight months into safety data that normally takes time, the first assessment due in 2023..
Maybe these safety data is like baking a cake which cant be rushed. Of course some greedy people cant wait and turn up the heat and get a cake thats burnt outside and yet raw inside.
I kind of get that taste with this mRNA cake thats been served up.
Be careful how you summarise data, fake news depends on skewing information. By “natural immunity” you should point out that it refers to people who have been infected and recovered. The study (not peer reviewed) compared the same number of people who had been vaccinated as had recovered. That skews the data as it doesn’t address total numbers or percentages . Up to you if you’d rather get covid than vaccinate, provided you survive of course.
Not sure why you keep banging on about “experimental” mRNA vaccine after the FDA has approved Pfizer-Biontech so it’s not EUA any more. After all, nearly 5.5 BILLION doses have been administered worldwide, hardly experimental now
I am no Medical Statistician…. however from what I understand this data from Israel is the most comprehensive and had about three groups for comparison.
And yes the Natural Immunity group was sub divided into Niaeve Infection or those who never had CV19 previously and those who were infected for the first time.
Likewise for those who were injected with one or two mRNA injections.
As always with data and Statistics it can vary from country to country. But right now Israel is the most comprehensive the world have got.
I’m in total agreement with you, but they should require testing every 2 days for those officers who refuse vaccinated.
The only thing with that…a false sense of immunity/security and the search for Infection/protection.
Should those who were double mRNA injected and can asymptomatic infect others or shed Spike protein, be tested also?
Some may ask why should they be exempt,….fair is fair, they can infect others too. Right?
Which leads back to the point of Covid insanity and paranoia.
We live in world surronded by millions of Virus and Bacteria that we routinely pass back and forth to other.
How long before some Health and Safety madman insist we all must….. in the interest of Public Safety…. dress in all white zip up space suit whenever in Public.
Hopefully I haven’t given these crazy people any ideas.
Hahaha.
It’s about saving lives. If getting vaccinated helps protect you from serious illness or death it’s wiser to take it.
Vaccines don’t heal. Anyone can get infected and have the ability to spread the virus, vaccinated or not.
No adult should be mandated to take the vaccine, so it’s all about mitigation. Unless you provide us with a viable option to deal with this pandemic. Vaccination, Social distancing, and facial coverings are all we have. I’ll wait.