March 9 in Jamaican Police History
March 9, 1951 – 24 year old Oswald Bennett appears before the Court. He is charged with striking a policeman with his fist and resisting arrest during an incident which occurred two days prior on March 7 – the policeman had told him to move on after leaving a concert. The woman that Bennett was [...]
February 13 in Jamaican Police History
Seems the matter of ex-pat cops has been a sore-point here in Jamaica for some time now. February 13, 1941 – The recruitment of three sub-inspectors from abroad to fill senior posts in the Jamaica Constabulary Force angers the People’s National Party (PNP). The PNP executive accuses the Government of denying promotions to local policemen [...]
November 27 in Jamaican Police History
November 27, 1971 – a police corporal attached to the Linstead Police Station in St. Catherine, flees from a church in St. Ann’s Bay, when his common-law-wife interrupts his wedding. He was about to be married to a clerk from the district of Bamboo. The common-law-wife claims that she is the mother of his two [...]