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Letter to the Jamaica Gleaner editor – Saturday, July 31, 2010 From: Elaine McDonald (junie264@verizon.net) Re: Justice For Jamaica’s Police The Editor, Sir Now that someone has been appointed to investigate killings by the police, is anyone going to be appointed to investigate the killings of police personnel … more

With the recent passage of the Independent Commission of Investigations Act, which repealed the Police Public Complaints Act, the Police Public Complaints Authority (PPCA) – the 17-year-old civilian body which was responsible for probing allegations against members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force – now faces an uncertain future. Somehow also, it appears that no one [...]

Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, has ordered the immediate arrest of a group of policemen who were caught on video, beating and shooting to death a man who was unarmed. He has also ordered that that an all ports stop order be placed on the policemen in order to prevent them leaving the country. The [...]

Attorney-at-law Terrence Williams created history yesterday, when he was sworn in as Jamaica’s first Commissioner for the newly-created Independent Commission of Investigations. The commission will be solely responsible for the investigation of police killings; the new Commissioner will thus be supervising police investigations into allegations of abuse and other matters involving the police. The police’s [...]

Speaking two days ago, at a Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Civic Affairs Committee function, Superintendent Terrence Bent (transitional commander with responsibility for west Kingston) announced that the police will be using new strategies in the inner-city West Kingston communities (Tivoli Gardens, Denham Town, Hannah Town and Matthews Lane) in order to improve their relationship with [...]