I’m supposed to be the “outside” son of a late “Ole Police” Joe Fenty. Many other senior relatives now also deceased, were also members of the B.G. Police Force. (I can personalise this relationship to the point of now revealing that my first two pairs of “Long Pants” – 56 years ago – were made from Joe Fenty’s Police serge!)
Thus I’ve always essayed to support our local good police in these columns. I wrote about past Commissioners as often as I’ve berated “bad cops” and have quoted Lloyd Barker who had constantly reminded concerned citizens that: “often we don’t get the top achievers, our recruits are what we get from the ordinary society out there.”
