RUBiS Donates Smart TV to Kingston East Division

As the fight against crime intensifies across Jamaica, petroleum marketing company RUBiS Energy Jamaica Limited has donated a smart television to the Kingston East Division. The television was presented in a handing over ceremony at the RUBiS Headquarters on Thursday, February 1.

The management of RUBiS made the donation of the 40-inch Television following a meeting with the commanding officers of the Kingston East Division and the needs of the police division were highlighted.

The television set is equipped with integrated Internet and interactive "Web 2.0" features and can also provide Internet TV, online interactive media, over-the-top content (OTT), as well as on-demand streaming media.

“We were told one of the needs of the station was a smart television so we immediately went about procuring one for the force as RUBiS is committed to assisting the force in their crime-fighting initiatives,” noted Chief Executive Officer of RUBiS Alain Carreau.

Incoming commanding officer of the division Superintendent Victor Hamilton Technology said the television will be an important tool in their operation.

“The main purpose is to retrofit the operation’s room which is basically the engine to the police station. That is where we meet to plan strategies, that is where we meet to have lectures so it will serve as a monitor to put up maps so that we can project what various tasks are about,” he explained.

 Incoming Commanding Officer of the Kingston East division Superintendent Victor Hamilton (center) checks out the smart television that was donated to his division by RUBiS Energy Jamaica on Thursday, February 1 at the RUBiS Headquarters in Kingston.  Looking on is RUBiS Energy Jamaica’s Chief Executive Officer Alain Carreau (right) and Outgoing Commanding Officer of Kingston East Division Superintendent Robert Walker. 

Outgoing commanding officer of Kingston East Division Superintendent Robert Walker pointed to the use of televisions in popular American action police procedural television series such as NCIS as the vision the police force has for the use of technology in their crime fighting strategies.

“If you watch NCIS, that’s where we want to go, we want to be one step ahead of criminals so we want to use the TV as a portal to make our job easier and more efficient,” Walker added.

Superintendent Hamilton commended RUBiS for their donation of a television to the operations room.

“We can’t do without our corporate partners so we are thankful to RUBiS for this donation that will be important to our division’s operations way forward,” he noted.

CEO Carreau said that it was important that his organization works with the police force as they tackle crime.

“Corporate partnership with the police force should be encouraged, we need to support the police as they fearlessly go about their jobs which is critical to everyone’s safety,” he observed.