Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Elan Powell, says the State of Public Emergency (SOPE) in St. James continues to reap encouraging results. Addressing a meeting of stakeholders at the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday (May 15), ACP Powell said there has been a 72 per cent decrease in murders since the start of the SOPE on...

State Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, says the Government is keen on addressing the issue of overcrowding in the country’s correctional centres. Making his contribution to the 2018/19 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 16, the State Minister said that to alleviate the overcrowding problem at the maximum-security facilities, a 304-cell block...

The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is to implement an electronic case-management system to replace the current paper-based one, to support effective offender management. “With the assistance of our international partner, the Organization of American States (OAS), an electronic case-management system was identified in Brazil, which can be replicated in Jamaica with minor adjustments,” State Minister in the Ministry of...

Twenty-five operational personnel of private security companies (PSC) in charge of storage, custody and transportation of firearms and ammunitions are benefiting from a two-day technical workshop on international standards and best practices on stockpile management. The objectives are to reduce stockpile security risks to the minimum acceptable level with respect to natural disaster and other incidents; contribute to the standardisation...

Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Community Safety and Security (CSS) Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), Steve McGregor, says communities can help to solve the crime problem. Speaking at the opening of a minilibrary at the Bunker’s Hill Community Centre in Trelawny on May 10, to mark the launch of the Trelawny Police Division Safe...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang (left), greets Spanish Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Josep Bosch Bessa, when he visited the Ministry’s offices at 2 Oxford Road in St. Andrew, on May 11.

Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) who have been trained as Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigators have been charged to go after perpetrators of these crimes. Acting Senior Director at the Bureau of Gender Affairs, Sharon Robinson, in making the appeal, noted that there have been low rates of arrest and conviction in relation to these acts of...