BY ROSS SHEIL AND CLAUDE MILLS, Staff Reporters
Reneto Adams - FILE
NO SOONER THAN Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams walked free from the Kraal trial on Tuesday than radio listeners began hearing a new single, apparently voiced by the policeman himself.
Warning criminals of his impending return to the streets, To Protect and Serve sounds similar to the statements he gave reporters when he walked free from the Home Circuit Court, Kingston.
"This is Reneto DeCordova Valentino Adams, people of Jamaica, uno listen this, the law is here to serve and protect, and no one is above the law"
Taken from To Protect and Serve
MOST CONTROVERSIAL COP
But is this really the voice of Jamaica's most controversial cop, who has been suspended from duty since April 2004, having been charged with the murder of the four people shot dead in Kraal, Clarendon in May 2003 by his Crime Management Unit (CMU)?
THE WEEKEND STAR can confirm, yes.
The senior superintendent told THE STAR; "This is really philosophical music, ultimately, what I set out to do in my policing strategy, and I just want to let the music run its course and talk to the minds of the people. Everybody is calling me about it, I have got at least 50 calls this morning about the song, but let them just buy it and listen to it." He said he did not want to elaborate on his motivations for doing the song because he "has been advised by his lawyers to lay low this weekend". The song was recorded on October 29 (two days before SSP Adams's trial began) on the Carbine rhythm by Bassline productions and recorded at New Kingston's Truckback Studio. The rhythm itself was built over a year ago, however producer Steve Locke decided not to release any of the artistes who voiced on it at the time.
"Because of the name 'Carbine' the artistes jus' wanted to do gun tunes, but I just thought 'nah' an' jus' let it rest for a while, because it was leading to a violent trend. A few months ago I was talking about the rhythm with friends an' I said I am going to get Adams to voice on it," Locke told THE WEEKEND STAR.
"They didn't believe me but I did," he laughed. Contacting SSP Adams was he said straightforward, the cop spoke to his lawyer and from there they recorded the single.
PULLS NO PUNCHES
On the track, lyrically SSP Adams pulls no punches. He calls out the names of some of nation's most crime-troubled communities, promising "a better Jamaica under my new regime" to end their ills and calling out those who took him off the streets - a move that he says is a reason for Jamaica's spiralling crime rate, with murders threatening to top 1,600 this year.
"And these 'criminal rights organisations' are trying to stop me from doing my job, while these hoodlums continue to destroy the only livelihood that we have. I will not allow criminals to take over our island, Jamaica," Adams furthers sings.
Contacted by THE WEEKEND STAR yesterday Carolyn Gomes of the human rights organisation, Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ), who opposes SSP Adam's acquittal, said she had no plans to release a record answering To Protect and Serve. "No, I don't think I have descended that low, that's too far into the madness and you can quote me on that," said Mrs. Gomes.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields who was originally brought from Scotland Yard to lead the Kraal investigation did not return THE WEEKEND STAR's inquiry as to whether he would be heading into the studio as well.
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