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The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is moving to expand the types of services it offers, under its Inmates Work Programme, to include the skills of both men and women. At a function held Friday (March 27), recognising the inmates for giving a facelift to the National Stadium in time for this week's Boys and Girls Track and Field Championships,...

Members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are expected to be recertified in the use of weapons by the end of December. This disclosure was made by the head of the Firearms and Use of Force Task Group, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Paul Robinson, in an interview with JIS News. According to ACP Robinson, members of the Island Special...

When citizens are fully observant of happenings in their communities they can help to prevent criminals from plaguing their neighbourhoods, says Mandeville policeman, Sergeant Rovan Salmon. "When you take time to know the people living next to you, when you are aware of movements in the community where you reside, and just being a good neighbour by ensuring that anything...

The work of the Jamaica Fire Brigade(JFB), in Kingston, has been bolstered with the addition of a new truck donated by the Turkish government. The truck, valued at US$500,000, was today (March 24) handed over by Turkey's non-resident Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Kaydriye Kizildeli, at the office of the Consul General of the Republic of Turkey in Kingston. The...

One hundred and twenty four members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), left the island on March 23, for Port-of-Spain, in Trinidad and Tobago, to assist with the provision of security for the upcoming Fifth Summit of the Americas. The 30 JCF members in the contingent, met with Commissioner of Police, Rear Admiral Hardley...

Ask most Jamaicans what comes to mind when they hear the name "National Reserves", and they will likely tell you, "soldiers who respond at beck and call." But, there is much more to them than being the reserve arm of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) or, more specifically, the 3rd Battalion Jamaica Regiment. Although a reserve unit, the once all-male...

An anti-gang strategy is being developed by the Ministry of National Security to deal with criminal gangs in Jamaica, says Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Major Richard Reese. He was speaking at the graduation ceremony of the Introduction to Financial Investigation and Junior Command Narcotics Investigation courses, today (March 20) at the Caribbean Regional Drug Law Enforcement Training Centre (REDTRAC),...

Two Jamaican policemen created history today (March 18) when they became the first two crime-fighters from the region to be accredited by the United States based-International Crime Scene Investigators Association. They are Forensic Crime Scene Investigators, Detective Inspectors Cecil J. Clarke and Lloyd L. Crawford. Executive Director of the International Crime Scene Investigators Association, Hayden Baldwin, in presenting the certificates...

Director for Policy and Research at the Bureau of Women's Affairs (BWA), Jennifer Williams, has advised women, who were being sexually harassed in the workplace to report such cases. "Object immediately and clearly if you are being sexually harassed. Report it, put it in writing and where necessary, keep records in terms of date, time, place, and details of the...

Director of the Road Safety Unit, Kenute Hare, is appealing to motorists and other road users to exercise increased safety in the traffic environment, in order to reduce the number of pedestrians who are being mowed down on the nation's roads. This call follows the Unit's March 2009 Traffic Crash Report, which shows pedestrian fatalities accounting for 32 per cent...

The Department of Correctional Services on Tuesday (March 17) launched its Inmates Work Programme 2009, with a two-day clean up in Portmore, St. Catherine. The project, the 19th since the programme began, took place at the border between the Portmore Pines and Silverstone communities, which also borders the Silverstone Basic School. It is expected to cost about one-fifth of open...

State Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Senator Arthur Williams, has said that the Government will be placing increased emphasis on community policing as an important strategy in creating a modernised security force and addressing crime and violence. "Everyone in the police services in Jamaica is going to have to buy-in to the concept of community policing, as that...