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Jamaican Cops Face Disciplinary Action, Remedial Training After TikTok-ing To Skeng’s ‘Gvnman Shift’

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Several Jamaican cops are now facing disciplinary action for their alleged involvement in a new social media craze that involves uniformed personnel lip-syncing to Dancehall artist Skeng‘s Gvnman Shift.

Produced by Chemist Records and Raheef Music Group, Gvnman Shift is currently the No. 1 most-streamed song in Jamaica since its release on August 23, according to YouTube’s Music Charts.

Head of the JCF’s Corporate Communications Unit (CCU), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay, confirmed that the officers were being penalized for their involvement in the viral TikTok videos.

“A couple of videos with officers on TikTok were sent to IPROB and the officers are facing disciplinary action,” Lindsay told DancehallMag.

Lindsay declined to say how many officers were involved in the disciplinary probe.

The new craze involves videos of police officers posted on TikTok dressed in full uniform with their badge numbers visible and armed with assault rifles lip-syncing the popular song.

One video showed two rifle-toting females and while another showed a male—without a gun in what appeared to be his living room—in full uniform, dancing and singing the lyrics that appeared to glorify gun violence and romanticize gangs.

“Intellectual murda people edition/ Cock and fyah full a gun like Remington/ Fully charge up eager fi kill a man/ Ratty gang fimi gang p–sy run up if yuh bad/ Kryptonite caah mi nuh duh di muscle fight/ Inna di miggle a di night wi mek di place get noisy,” Skeng deejays on the track.

Commissioner of Police Major General Antony Anderson disclosed today in a virtual press conference that he was concerned about the new development.

“When you listen to the lyrics of the songs being played in the background of the video it wasn’t consistent with what we would expect or anyone would expect from our police officers. We also saw that in the videos the police officers had weapons on them and that’s certainly not the image we would expect of our officers,” he stated.

The Top Cop disclosed that persons who appeared in videos will have to undergo remedial training if they are going to remain in the organization, so that they are better ‘aligned’ with the best values of the JCF.

He revealed that the Police High Command has published guidelines in the Force Orders setting out how the issue will be dealt with going forward.

Skeng’s Gvnman Shift is so far the most successful track on the 1Matik Riddim with over 2.2 million views on YouTube.

Other songs on the riddim include Govana’s 1Matik, Kyodi’s Asset, Intence’s Poison, IWaata’s Ghost Town, and Rytikal’s Where I’m From.