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The Tuesday Talk column in today’s Jamaica Gleaner newspaper talks about problems with Jamaica’s police force. Here are the details from the column:
Police implicated in lottery scam, police implicated in car-stealing racket, police implicated in gunrunning, police implicated in drug smuggling, etc. How then can we ever hope to solve crime when so many of [...]

Deputy Superintendent Clive Blair, Operations officer for the St. Catherine South Police Division, has said that the police in that division are on high alert as a result of threats issued against them. According to Blair, “… the police has intelligence of threats against the lives of police personnel. This is as a result of [...]

According to Dr. Gary Slutkin – executive director of the Chicago-based Ceasefire International – violently aggressive law enforcement will not bring an end to crime in the volatile communities across the island. Speaking yesterday during a forum hosted by the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) and the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, [...]

Two policemen, who testified before the commission of enquiry into the deadly fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre for girls in May 2009, were deemed untruthful by the enquiry’s commissioner, Justice Paul Harrison.
Justice Harrison report was released recently, and in it, he concluded that constables Lawrence Burrell and Roogae Rowland had lied to the [...]

This past weekend, Spanish Town mayor, Dr. Andrew Wheatley, unleashed a torrent of criticisms against the Spanish Town police, calling them “sloppy, lackadaisical and nonchalant” and urging Acting Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, to remove them from his town. Wheatley’s angry tirade happened twice – first at an address to the monthly general meeting of [...]