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The Video Identification System which was in the news recently because it was in use then shut down (because of legal concerns) then resumed, was implemented at the Ocho Rios police station yesterday, bringing to five the number of locations across the island where this video ID parade is actively being used. The system provides [...]

Yesterday, the police resumed using the state-of-the-art video identification parade system, which had been shut down because of legal concerns. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Office of the Solicitor General reportedly passed the system as fair and legal, and have given the police the go ahead to resume using it. [...]

Citing legal implications, Government lawyers have reportedly instructed the police to shut down its state-of-the-art video identification parade system which was launched in January of this year. It was not immediately clear what the legal concerns were with regard to the system, but naturally, members of the police high command are said to be unhappy [...]

Following a request last year by Police Commissioner – Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin – for assistance in modernizing Jamaica’s constabulary, a new state of the art video identification system was launched yesterday at the Kingston Central Police Station. The system was funded by the United States and British governments at a cost of just under [...]