A police commander who led a commando-style, anti-crime team that has left a trail of bodies is hitting the airwaves with a rap-style song that pledges to restore law and order in Jamaica.
"People of Jamaica, listen to this: The law is here to serve and protect, and no one is above the law," sings Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams.
In To Protect and Serve, Adams also threatens criminals, who have given Jamaica one of the world's highest murder rates, saying: "They will feel the full extent of the law."
The song was released on CD after a jury last week acquitted Adams and two other policemen on charges of murdering two men and two women and then planting guns on their bodies. The song quickly stirred an outcry from rights groups.
The 57-year-old Adams, who often wears aviator-style sunglasses and black combat gear, has led raids resulting in at least 40 killings, according to Families Against State Terrorism, a local rights group.
Carolyn Gomes, executive director of Jamaicans For Justice, called the song "irresponsible, frightening and distasteful."
In the song, which is done in a "dancehall" style that is an offshoot of reggae and has rap influences, Adams also lashes out at human rights groups.
"These criminal rights organizations are trying to stop me from doing my job while hoodlums continue to destroy the only livelihood we have," Adams sings over a slow, electronic beat. "I will not allow criminals to take over our island, Jamaica."
In an interview published on Wednesday in a local newspaper, Adams said he relishes confrontations with members of criminal gangs, who rule the slums surrounding Kingston.
"We have communities in Jamaica where, as you enter as a policeman, you are fired upon without any notice," Adams told the Jamaica Gleaner.
"So I find it a joy to go and look for the hardened criminal -- men who fire M-16 rifles and AK-47s ... I cannot run away," he said.
"The return action would be decisive and probably final, in some instances," Adams told the newspaper.
Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas does not want to publicly comment on Adam's song, said police spokesman Karl Angell.
Adams and two other officers were acquitted on Dec. 20 of killing the four people during a May 2003 raid in Kraal, a village about 64km west of Kingston. Three other officers were acquitted earlier.
"It was the mother of all trials and the mother of all acquittals," Adams told cheering supporters following the verdict.
After the Kraal raid, authorities disbanded Adams' Crime Management Unit and assigned the officers charged in the deaths to administrative posts.
Police Commissioner Thomas has said they won't resume active duty until they undergo psychological evaluations.
Jamaica has one of the world's highest rates of killings by police, but few officers have been charged with crimes, according to Amnesty International, a London-based rights group.
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