The Police Mirror Is Back
After being out of production for over 20 years, The Police Mirror (a Jamaica Constabulary Force publication) is back. Its recreation and design were reportedly done internally by staff at the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN). The return of the publication speaks to one of Police Commissioner Owen Ellington’s six strategic priorities – effective internal and [...]
Leighton Levy’s Take On Cleaning Up Jamaica’s Police
In today’s Star newspaper, columnist Leighton Levy gives his take on cleaning up Jamaica’s police force: I will never understand the police. I don’t think anyone in Jamaica does, including members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Year after year after year, there is talk about the need to develop a better relationship between the [...]
Woman Fined $1000 For Using Indecent Language During Confrontation With Police
27 year old Janice Darling from Westchester in Portmore, St. Catherine, who was accused of attacking and beating three police personnel who chased a man into her yard, was fined yesterday after she appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court, and pleaded guilty to using indecent language. She was fined $1000 or 10 days [...]
Woman Fined $20,000 For Attempting To Bribe A Policeman
A woman (Shelly Graham of Lucky Valley, St. Catherine) who tried to bribe a policeman, was fined $20,000 or three months’ hard labour, when she appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. According to reports, in June 2009, Graham went to the Spanish Town Police Station where her husband Kevin was being held. [...]
Police Inspector Hit With Blunt Object; Assailant Killed In Alleged Shoot Out
The police’s Bureau of Special Investigations are reportedly investigating last night’s shooting death of taxi operator Shaun Marshall in Montego Bay. Marshall was shot and killed in an alleged shoot-out with the police, some time after he had reportedly attacked a police inspector who had attempted to seize his vehicle. According to reports, the policeman [...]
