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Eleven members (of varying ranks) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), are to leave Jamaica today for Canada, where they will participate in a three-week Computer Forensics Examiner Course. They will be hosted by the Canadian Police College, in Ottawa. The Police High Command has said that the Computer Forensics Examiner Course is designed for [...]

Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has endorsed a proposal to shorten the six-month basic training for police recruits, effective 2010. Bishop Gary Welsh, commandant of the Jamaica Police Academy, announced recently that plans are afoot to have the next batch of 80 recruits complete the training in half the time, partly by the curriculum [...]

Several members of the police force, along with other members of the security services and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), graduated yesterday from a two-week long “Critical Incident and Management training” course that was organized and funded by the United States Government. Jamaica is reportedly the fifth country to benefit from [...]

More than 50 police personnel from the Region 3 police division (Clarendon, Manchester and St. Elizabeth) recently received much-needed computer training to strengthen their crime-fighting skills. They benefited from a four-week training project that was staged by the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Information Systems department as part of the University’s outreach project. NCU’s quest is [...]

Forty Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) trainees were introduced this week, to the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and its operations. As part of one of their training courses (in financial management), the recruits were given a familiarization tour of the JSE, and also a bit of the risks, rewards and opportunities available to them in terms [...]