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The public is invited to a frum on Police Reform: Getting It Right. The panel includes: Terrence Williams, INDECOM Commissioner Justin Felice, Assistant Commissioner of Police – Anti-Corruption branch Dr. The Hon. Carolyn Gomes (OJ), Executive Director – Jamaicans For Justice The public forum will include the screening of the documentary ‘Victims Voices’, a feature [...]

Letter to the Jamaica Gleaner editor – Saturday, April 25, 2011 From: G. George Wilson – Rev. Dr. (glengeorgewilson@aim.com) Re: Our sympathy goes out to these men and women in uniform The Editor, Sir Our nation’s overworked, overstressed, but most dedicated peace-keepers are overwhelmed with grief and profound sadness. The nature of the job has [...]

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), a commission of Parliament which has responsibility for probing police fatal shootings and alleged abuses by agents of the State, has been allocated a budget of J$200 million in the the 2011/2012 Estimates of Expenditure. The budget, which represents a jump of J$160 million over the previous year (when [...]

A District Constable attached to the Safe Schools Programme in St. Catherine, was reportedly stabbed and seriously injured by a female student at a high school in the parish yesterday. He was admitted to hospital in serious condition, while the teenager was arrested and charged with wounding. Reports indicate that at about 2 p.m. yesterday, [...]

Just over a week after Detective Corporal Wayne Llewellyn shot and killed four members of his family, shot and injured his wife, then turned the gun on himself, there has been another murder-suicide involving a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. 58 year old retired police sergeant, Osbourne Whitton, reportedly shot and killed a woman [...]