Man wants to help cops fight COVID - Offers to clean police stations and vehicles for free

Car wash operator Oshane Peart has offered his assistance to the commissioner of police in a move he thinks will help rid Jamaica of COVID-19.

Peart, 30, is willing to utilise his skills, tools and labour to sanitise police stations and vehicles across Kingston for free.

He has been operating the Top Shelf Mobile Car Wash for three years, and with the number of COVID cases climbing in the island, he is determined to play his part in eliminating the virus.

"We done see wah a gwan in a Jamaica wid di COVID thing. But right now, the only people I really don't see nobody helping is the officers, and the officers dem a try them best with everything. Dem a risk them life and most of them have family too, enuh. Everybody a try help fi dem self and fi dem community," Peart told THE WEEKEND STAR.

"If COVID take over the police dem, how it would a go? If we hear that all 300 police officers have the coronavirus, what a go gwan?" he questioned.

To those who may see this as nothing but a ploy to bring attention to his business, Peart says "business has been good".

"You will always have negative people. You just have to do what you have to do for you, your family and your country," he said.

Best interest at heart

Peart says the work of Jamaica's police force goes beyond protecting the population form COVID-19. Thus, civilians should have their best interest at heart.

He said that the lives of Jamaicans would be doubly at risk if the police could not do their job.

"Thief and gunman a go plague we. Everybody a try to help in many different ways, so me seh all right, I would sanitise some police stations because we have to keep up we police officers dem. I am willing to wash down the stations and clean them down for free," he said.

Peart's primary offer is to sanitise the police officers' home away from home. But if other necessities arise, he is just as willing.

"If they want the vehicles to be cleaned too, them can point them out say, 'all right, we want these vehicles to be sanitised and cleaned'. I don't have a problem. I am willing to help in any way I can," he said.

He said that he has already reached out to Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson with his offer.

"I have written a letter to the commissioner of police office already, for a go-ahead to clean and sanitise police stations in Kingston, but I haven't got any reply as yet," he said.