Security guards will soon receive training which will enable them to seek employment in the Caribbean and Europe. Evening and week-end classes for a 12-week training programme are scheduled to begin in May 2016 at the Excelsior Community College (ECC) main campus, 137 Mountain View Avenue, Kingston 3. The school is collaborating with Security Administrators Limited (SAL) to start the...

Custos of Westmoreland, Hon. The Very Reverend Canon Hartley Perrin, has expressed satisfaction with the recent town hall meeting staged by the National Security Ministry in Savanna-la-Mar. The meeting was addressed by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Robert Montague; Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams; as well as heads of a number of State agencies. Custos Perrin told JIS News that he was...

The Ministry of National Security will be equipping police stations in Westmoreland with a number of basic items in order to improve the work environment for police personnel. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, who made the disclosure at a town hall meeting at the Sean Lavery Faith Hall in Savanna-la-Mar on Monday (March 21), said the items to be provided...

Students of Barnes Basic School, in Kingston, are the recipients of a new computer and other items donated by outgoing Lasco Top Cop of the Year 2015/16, Detective Sergeant Ava Lindo. A desktop computer, exercise books and pencils were handed over to the school on March 23, which will benefit the 46 students and three teachers at the institution. “I...

Head of the Manchester Police Division, Superintendent Vendolyn Cameron-Powell, is suggesting that the Government consider bonding members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), to stem the high attrition rate within the organisation. She noted that the JCF, which is currently seeking to fill about 3,000 vacancies, is losing well-trained officers to other countries that are “doing everything to recruit them.” Superintendent...

Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams, has announced the planned re-assignment of District Constables (DCs) from police stations back into their communities. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, on March 21, Dr. Williams explained that the function of these officers is primarily to support the regular Police men and women at the community level. He pointed out that...

National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says will be purchasing cheaper vehicles during the next financial year to boost the mobile capacity of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).             Speaking at a town hall meeting in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland,  on March 21, the Minister said motor cars, which are popularly known as ‘deportees’, will be purchased, instead of more expensive new...