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The capacity of Government and targeted communities to attain a more peaceful, secure and just society, will be enhanced with an allocation of $18 million in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, for the Jamaica Violence Prevention and Sustainable Development Programme. This project, which commenced in January last year, has to date been successful in setting up the Ministry of National...

Finance and the Public Service Minister Audley Shaw, has advised that several arrests have been made in the recently uncovered car stealing ring, involving employees of the Tax Services Department, and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). The racket, he says, involved the illegal registration of motor vehicles using fictitious titles, the removal of liens from titles, and the placement of...

Twenty four members of the Island Traffic Authority and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), were presented with Certificates of Participation and Transcripts, on April 3, to signal their successful completion of a month-long introductory course in Jamaican Sign Language and Deaf Culture. The training, which was facilitated by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD), aimed to sufficiently equip the...

The Mandeville Police Youth Club will on Saturday (April 4) stage a fun day to support its social outreach programmes in communities across Manchester. The event will feature many popular sport activities, involving teams from across the island. "The Police Youth Club is a large organization in Jamaica, and we will have persons from a wide cross- section of the...

A two-day Crime Victim Management Counselling Seminar, aimed at strengthening the capacity of communities to respond to the effects of crime, will get underway on Thursday (April 2) at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library on Tom Redcam Drive in Kingston. The training seminar is being staged by the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Advisory Committee of the Victim...

The community animation programme, within the Community Security Initiative (CSI) at the Ministry of National Security, was officially launched today (April 1) at the Hotel Four Seasons, Kingston. The programme is a special anti-crime public education project, which seeks to engage communities in the fight against crime and violence, and in reducing fear. The programme incorporates the use of an...

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...