Manchester Police Urges Citizens To Help
With the active migration of criminals from Kingston and other urban centres to their parish, the Manchester police are actively urging ordinary citizens to help by reporting the presence of strangers in their communities.
Deputy Superintendent Barrington Daley, the man in charge of criminal investigations in the parish, reportedly said “We would like to ask citizens [...]
Bungles Trial Gets Underway Today
The trial of Superintendent Harry ‘Bungles’ Daley is scheduled to begin in the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court today. Superintendent Daley was arrested and charged last year for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act, and is facing six counts of extortion and six counts of breaching the Corruption Prevention Act.
Allegations are that between May 2007 and July [...]
Police Constable Dies In Motor Vehicle Accident
Constable Rodney Thompson of the Mobile Reserve Division was reportedly killed in a motor vehicle accident along the McCooks Pen main road in St. Catherine yesterday. Reports are that at approximately 4 p.m. yesterday, Thompson and three other colleagues were responding to a scene in McCooks Pen, when they drove into a pool of water [...]
Government To Recruit Additional District Constables
The Jamaican Government will reportedly embark on a major recruitment drive for district constables (DCs) this year. Figures contained in the 2009-2010 Estimates of Expenditure for the national budget indicate that Government is proposing to spend J$2.1 billion on the training of DCs, up from $890 million last year.
Minister of National Security, Dwight Nelson, also [...]
Child Killed With Policewoman’s Gun – Probe Intensifies
The probe into what has been reported as the accidental shooting of a 5 year old by his two year old brother with their aunt’s police pistol is intensifying, and investigators have reportedly swabbed the hands of all the people who were present at the house in Clarendon where the child was killed.
Forensic tests are [...]
