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A young policeman, said to be a member of the intelligence arm of the police force with less than two years’ service, was reportedly shot in the arm by two gunmen last night, but he managed to shoot and kill his two attackers during what is believed to have been an attempted robbery. According to [...]

A detective corporal attached to the St. Catherine North division, was reportedly shot and injured by gunmen in Eltham Park, Spanish Town, last night. According to reports, at about 9 p.m. last night, the policeman went to visit a friend in a housing scheme, when he was pounced upon by a group of men who [...]

49-year-old district constable, Irvin Codner, who was assigned to the Allman Town Police Station, appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where he was sentenced to six months in prison after he was convicted for soliciting $3,000 from a motorist who had disobeyed a traffic light. The court heard that on August 13, [...]

According to a news release issued by the police force yesterday, a police inspector (who has more than 12 years’ service in the constabulary) assigned to a Corporate Area Police Division was caught on Saturday (July 2) by members of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) with more than 150 lbs of ganja in the trunk of [...]

Are Jamaica’s citizens also to blame for the high rate of police killings across the island? If a recent academic paper by Dr. Herbert Gayle is to be believed, then the answer is a resounding YES. In today’s Jamaica Observer newspaper, writer/editor Petre Williams-Rayor takes a close look at Dr. Gayle’s paper … more here