FEAR – One Of The Key Factors Driving Police Killings Of Civilians In Jamaica
According to a report in today’s Sunday Observer newspaper, FEAR is one of the key factors driving cop killings of civilians in Jamaica. A new study by anthropologist Dr. Herbert Gayle suggests that these killings are unlikely to cease unless members of the constabulary can feel safer on the job, and society can get a [...]
Caught On Camera – Police Kill Man Outside St. Ann Police Station
Less than a year after a group of St. Ann policemen were caught on video, beating and shooting to death a man who was unarmed, another controversial and fatal police shooting by police in St. Ann has been caught on video. The video below (warning, this video is graphic and not to be viewed by [...]
Gun Salute Policeman To Be Reinstated & Paid Retroactively
The Court of Judicial Review has ruled that Michael Nembhard, a policeman assigned to the Portmore Police Station in the St. Catherine South Division, and who was one of three policemen interdicted in January 2010 for their possible role in gun salutes which took place at the funeral of an alleged don, be reinstated and [...]
Murder/Suicide In Manchester Involving Woman Constable & Retired Cop
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 [...]
INDECOM To Investigate Police Killings In Williamsfield District, St. Catherine
The Independent Commission of investigations (INDECOM) has reportedly started a probe into the recent shooting deaths of two men by the police in Williamsfield District, St. Catherine. The men, Michael Wayne Smith and Richard Anthony Ellis, of Crawle District, Riversdale, St. Catherine were allegedly killed in a shootout with the police on Saturday, March 26. [...]