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New Mobile Police Stations & Mobile Forensic Units Donated By British Government

news — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:38:09 +0000

The police were recently presented with three customised mobile police stations, and three fully equipped mobile forensic units. The vehicles were donated to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) by the UK’s Department For International Development (DFID), as part of the British Government’s ongoing efforts to assist the Jamaican Government with the modernisation of its police force.

It is hoped that these vehicles will assist the JCF with regard to the investigation of crime scenes, facilitating the preservation of evidence in transport through temperature-controlled storage, and developing community safety and community policing in Jamaica. The mobile forensic units are equipped with a generator, lighting, tent and a number of other technical pieces of equipment to enhance the service delivery, including a refrigerator to preserve forensic samples.

The units, which cost a total of US$711,867.50, were handed over to the JCF by Deputy British High Commissioner to Jamaica – Graham Glover – at a ceremony at the Office of the Commissioner of Police on Hope Road, St Andrew.

More Mobile Police Stations For Jamaica in 2009

news — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:29:17 +0000

Seven new mobile police stations will be set up this year as part of a plan to drive the JCF’s community policing initiative. Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin had announced last year that he would be shutting down some police stations and setting up mobile ones instead and that he wanted several mobile police stations in every parish. This particular goal will not however be achieved this year. More details soon.

Mobile Command & Control Police Unit to be Utilized this Christmas

news — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:29:43 +0000

The St. James Police have indicated that they intend to make maximum use of the Mobile Command and Control Unit in Sam Sharpe Square over the forthcoming Christmas season. Sam Sharpe Square in the capital city of Montego Bay is a known haven for pickpockets and petty thieves, especially during Christmas time.

It is equipped with surveillance cameras, among other gadgets, and so the J$23.5 million mobile police station will have its eyes on the criminals, with overt and covert operations already planned and being implemented.

"It (the Mobile Command & Control Police Unit) will play a key role in monitoring them (pickpockets and petty thieves) in Sam Sharpe Square over the Christmas period, but we have support from overt and covert operations as well," said Superintendent Paul Ferguson (Operations Officer – Area One Police Division) said recently.