28.03.06
ADAMS
COMPLETES PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION, COUNSELLING
SENIOR
Superintendent Reneto Adams, who was last December acquitted
of the 2003 controversial murder of four civilians in
Crawle, Clarendon, has completed the psychological evaluation
and counselling he was asked to do as a condition for
his return to the constabulary.
".We are in the process of preparing our assessment
and analytical report to be sent to the commissioner (of
police)," police chaplain Dr Vivian Panton told the
Observer last Friday.
The
57 year-old Adams, former head of the disbanded Crime
Management Unit (CMU), along with five other members of
the unit, were all freed, in the Home Circuit Court in
Kingston, of the murder of the Crawle four, which included
two women.
The five former CMU members, all from junior ranks, who
were suspended from the force pending the outcome of the
case, were reinstated on their acquittal. However, Adams
who was interdicted by the Police Service Commission on
two-thirds pay remains on interdiction.
Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas ordered that, in keeping
with police rules, Adams undergo counselling and other
psychological evaluation by the police chaplain Rev Dr
Vivian Panton and police resident consultant psychiatrist
Dr George Leveridge.
Thomas said then that at the end of the process, Leverage
would make a recommendation and evaluation as to whether
Adams was ready for reintegration into the force and appropriate
action would then be taken by the Police Service Commission.
Thomas, however, told the Observer that he had not yet
been advised of the conclusion of Adams' counselling.
But he said: "Whenever the analytical report and
recommendation from Dr Leverage and Rev Panton comes to
me, I will have to refer it to the Police Service Commission
and they are the ones who will decide appropriately whether
Senior Superintendent Adams will be reinstated to his
job."In the meantime, Adams told the Observer that
he found the counselling sessions "quite relaxing",
and that he was now more focused than any time in his
career. "..I
am ready for any eventuality where the job is concerned.It
(counselling) has made me quite focused," Adams said.
Fonte:
Jamaica Observer, T. K. WHYTE, Observer staff reporter
