http://www.jamaicanpolice.com The Jamaica Police Watchdog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:38:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sergeant Russell Robinson, the policeman facing various illegal weapons charges as a result of the big arms find at Munster Road in East Kingston last month, was slapped yesterday with an additional charge of bribery. Robinson allegedly attempted to bribe the arresting officers at the scene of the arms bust, ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/gun-trafficking-police-sergeant-slapped-with-bribery-charge/ Residents of Homestead, St. Catherine, staged a protest in their community yesterday, as they disputed the police's version of a shooting incident that took place in the area on Sunday (March 7). According to police reports, at approximately 4 p.m. on Sunday, one Julian Dillon allegedly arrived at a business place ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/homestead-residents-protest-police-killing/ Today's Editorial in the Jamaica Observer newspaper, speaks to the ongoing fighting to clean up Jamaica's police force, and rid it of corruption. "In its ongoing effort to clean up its performance, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has decided to set up a unit of its anti-corruption branch in St James, ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/jamaica-observer-editorial-fighting-police-corruption/ Three policemen - an inspector of police and two constables - have been acquitted of murder in the Home Circuit Court, after the prosecution was forced to offer no evidence against them. A formal verdict of not guilty was entered in favour of the men due to the absence of ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/three-policemen-acquitted-in-2005-shooting-death-of-wanted-man/ The police say they have identified two additional persons who they believed could provide them with information about last month's abduction and execution-style murder of police constable Miguel Cuff in Portmore, St. Catherine. The two persons are identified only by their aliases - 'Jubba' and 'Dirt Lump'. The police believe the ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/two-men-wanted-for-policemans-execution-style-murder/ 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 ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/threats-issued-against-police-in-st-catherine-south-police-division/ As part of a wider effort to improve the crime fighting, and to better investigate alleged corrupt practices by some police in that parish, the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is to establish an arm of its unit in the St. James Police Division. Superintendent Merrick Watson, ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/anti-corruption-unit-to-be-set-up-in-st-james/ Despite persistent rumors that as many as 75 police personnel attached to the Old Harbour & Old Harbour Bay Police Stations were being transferred from these stations, the official word from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) at this time is that the staffing at both these police stations is being ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/staffing-at-old-harbour-old-harbour-bay-police-stations-being-reviewed/ A week after findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the fire tragedy at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre last year which left seven teenage girls (wards of the state) dead, Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has issued new strict directives governing the use of tear gas by members ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/more-armadale-fallout-new-tear-gas-policy-for-jamaicas-police/ Further to the ongoing investigation of the disappearance of several vehicles that were being kept as court exhibits, from the Ramble (Hanover) police station’s yard, a release last night stated that Sergeant Derrick Barnes has been charged with four counts of larceny as a servant, while Corporal Shane Givans has ... http://www.jamaicanpolice.com/2010/03/policemen-arrested-for-motor-vehicle-larceny/