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The 119 emergency number serves as a means through which persons with genuine emergencies can receive urgent assistance. However, the emergency line is being plagued by persons abusing the system through prank calls and other general enquires that are not considered dire. In an interview with JIS News, Superintendent with responsibility for Police Control and Emergency, Kenneth Wade, informs that...

Six municipal police officers of the Manchester Parish Council were on Tuesday (Nov. 24), sworn in as District Constables (DC) to support the work of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) at the community level. The newly appointed DCs, comprising five males and one female, took the oath of office during a ceremony held in the Parish Council chambers in Mandeville,...

Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr. Marc Panton, has declared that an aggressive campaign is to be conducted against praedial thieves, with the Ministry leading the charge. "The value of praedial larceny last year was $5 billion or 6 per cent of the entire agricultural industry," he said, assuring that the Ministry was working assiduously...

Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has said that a number of new crime-fighting initiatives are to be introduced in Manchester, immediately. "We are going to be putting in place, with immediate effect, strategies to ensure that you enjoy the rest of the year without worry, and it will continue until Manchester is brought back from the...

A sergeant of police from the St. Catherine South Police Division was arrested on Wednesday last (November 25, 2009) for alleged breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. The policeman was arrested following a sting operation carried out by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). It is alleged that on January 29, 2009, the Sergeant of Police...

A praedial larceny co-ordinator is to be appointed within the next four weeks, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, announced Wednesday (November 26). He said that it will be a joint endeavour between his Ministry and the Ministry of National Security, where the co-ordinator will be stationed. The co-ordinator will be supervised by a body comprising representatives...

Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major General Stewart Saunders, says the JDF is on its way to being a totally transformed and more capability driven force. Speaking recently at the 17th annual fund-raising banquet of the Toronto chapter of the Jamaica Ex-Soldiers Association (JESA), in Toronto, Canada, Mr. Saunders said that at the end of...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese, has suggested that beneficiaries of the Ministry's Community Security Initiative (CSI) programme consider pooling their resources together and establishing enterprises, once they have completed the programme. Speaking with beneficiaries of the Ministry's social intervention programme, in the St. Catherine community of March Pen Road, at the Mona Baptist Church...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has indicated that the Government intends to speed up discussions with the Opposition on transforming the police force. Mr. Golding told the House of Representatives on Tuesday (November 3) that, while preliminary discussions have been held between the Government and the Opposition regarding more far-reaching measures to transform the police force, these discussions have...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding paid tribute to the staff of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) at their awards dinner on October 27 in Kingston. The Prime Minister said that it is a good thing to honour persons who had devoted their professional lives to critical areas of national life. "Large organisations tend to become faceless. We don't...

The Police Service Commission, (PSC) advises, that it has accepted the resignation of Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin as Commissioner of Police, with effect from Friday, 6th November, 2009. The PSC has also appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington to act as Commissioner of Police, with effect from the 7th November, 2009. The PSC will invite applications to fill the...

A Jamaican-born policeman has been appointed to the second highest rank in Toronto's police force, in Canada. Mr. Peter Sloly, who hails from Kingston, Jamaica, recently became the second black person in the history of the Toronto Police Service (TPS) to be made its Deputy Chief. At 43 years old, he is also the youngest Deputy Chief ever in the...