Two Men Wanted For Policeman’s Execution-Style Murder
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 two men are members of a gang that has been operating in sections of Portmore. The police’s latest information indicates that Constable Cuff’s murder was possibly linked to an ongoing feud between two violent criminal gangs in Portmore – the Uprising and the Umbrella gangs. It is believed that the men carried out the attack on the constable and his house, thinking he was a rival gang member.
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Threats Issued Against Police In St. Catherine South Police Division
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 the fatal shooting of Ezron [Dante] Morris a week ago.”
Blair said the threats are reportedly coming from persons in the Naggo Head community, and that the police are not taking them lightly, and that an investigation is underway.
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Anti-Corruption Unit To Be Set Up In St. James
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, head of the St. James Police Division, made the announcement yesterday during an informal familiarisation session with members of the St. James press corps at the RIU resort in St. James. He said the unit would be the first such to be established outside the Corporate Area.
According to Superintendent Watson, “Space has already been identified and it is now left for certain necessities to be done and, as soon as these are achieved, the team will be resident in St James.” He said also that the establishment of this arm of the unit as well as the beefing-up of the divisional command with the additional officers trained in community policing, are among some of the new initiatives to enhance the delivery of service to the St. James community.
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Staffing At Old Harbour & Old Harbour Bay Police Stations Being Reviewed
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 reviewed. No final decision has been taken as yet, and acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has reportedly received reports on analyses that was done in relation to possible reassignments.
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More Armadale Fallout – New Tear Gas Policy For Jamaica’s Police
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 of Jamaica’s constabulary.
In a release to the press yesterday, the police high command outlined the guidelines under which tear gas canisters should be discharged. The release said that only properly trained police personnel should discharge tear gas, and that it should only be done in a last ditch effort to quell disturbances. It states that they should never be used in a confined environment, especially where there is a potential fire hazard.
Ellington has also ordered that the officer commanding a police formation must first analyze the situation to determine the need for using tear gas. He also instructed that all tear-gas canisters and projectiles be brought in to the relevant divisions in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), and that their dates of manufacture be reviewed. In instances where the date on the devices is illegible or the date of manufacture is prior to 2002, they are to be returned to Headquarters Stores and Armoury for disposal.
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