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The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) issued a release yesterday, and it revealed the following (for the period January – September, 2011): 62 persons have been denied the opportunity to re-enlist in the JCF (seven of those individuals were prevented from re-enlisting just last month – September, 2011) 34 members of the JCF were charged with [...]

Two policemen, Corporal Sylvester Thaxter and Constable Kevin Whyte (both of the St. Elizabeth Police Division), appeared before the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate’s Court in St. Elizabeth yesterday, where they were convicted and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at hard labour for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. The convictions and sentencing come exactly three [...]

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 [...]

In today’s Star newspaper, columnist Leighton Levy gives his take on cleaning up Jamaica’s police force: I will never understand the police. I don’t think anyone in Jamaica does, including members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Year after year after year, there is talk about the need to develop a better relationship between the [...]

Addressing the 67th joint central conferences of the Jamaica Police Federation at the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, yesterday, Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, said that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) can be cleansed within five years – if serious efforts are made to rid it of rogue members. According to Ellington, [...]