Sergeant David

Daily Gleaner 1911 August 18 page 5

A GOOD OFFICER

Career of Sergt. David

Of the Police Force.

IN CHARGE AT GORDON TOWN

In every corps, the non-commissioned officers are the back-bone of the force. They are the ones who leaven the whole and make it easy for those in command.

The Jamaica Police Force can pride itself on its non-commissioned ranks. Among their number, are men of sterling character - men of marked ability, men whose loyalty has never been found wanting, and whose courage and devotion to duty have time and again won for them public recognition.

The Sergeants of the Kingston division are as fine a body of N.C.O’s as could be met with in any force. Being in the city, they naturally come more before the public eye and more is heard of them and of their work, than of their comrades in the country. But whilst the Sergeants in the city in pursuing “the daily round, the common task,” have much to brighten their lot, the Sergeants in charge of country stations in out of the way districts have to eke out a dreary existence of monotonous routine. And to their credit be it said, they have always done their duty.

This morning we publish the picture of a popular N.C.O., Sergeant David, at present stationed at Gordon Town. As a Corporal he was in charge of the station at Matilda’s Corner, and his uniform courtesy and urbanity won for him the respect of all who came in contact with him whilst he was at this little station.

Sergeant David joined the force on the 18th April 1892 and served in Kingston after leaving the Depot. He was next sent to Manchester where he remained about 3 years and then to St. Andrew. Whilst at Gordon Town in 1901 he was appointed a first class constable and had charge of Guava Ridge station as Acting Corporal. After nine months at Guava Ridge, he was promoted “full” Corporal and drafted to the head station at Halfway Tree. He has been in charge of the station at Stony Hill, at Lawrence Tavern and at Matilda’s Corner. He was recently promoted Sergeant and sent to Gordon Town where he is now in charge of the station.