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According to a release from the Police High Command yesterday, police personnel patrolling Tivoli Gardens have reportedly been coming under attack from residents who hurl stones at them from high-rise buildings. According to the release, just last night, a police officer from the Mobile Reserve was injured while on duty in Tivoli Gardens, after he [...]

According to the US State Department, in its 2011 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) which was released yesterday, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington’s efforts to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) of corruption are being hindered by internal, judicial, and political roadblocks. The report states that more than 200 Jamaican cops have been dismissed since [...]

Millions of dollars worth of police equipment were destroyed in a fire which engulfed three buildings at the Mobile Reserve’s Harman Barracks Headquarters on South Camp Road in St. Andrew early yesterday morning. Among the items destroyed were four guns, a motorcycle, bullet-proof vests, uniforms and numerous personal effects belonging to police personnel stationed there. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]