The Ministry of National Security has handed over 750 Traffic Ticket Management System (TTMS) handsets and 750 mobile handheld printers to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). This is the first instalment of devices towards nationwide implementation of the fully digitised ticketing system. The ceremony was held today (January 19), at the Office of the Commissioner of Police in St. Andrew....

The St. Ann Police will increase its monitoring of several crash hotspots in the parish, to reduce road fatalities. Addressing the monthly meeting of the St. Ann Municipal Corporation on January 12, Commanding Officer for the parish, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Dwight Powell, said most of the road crashes in 2022 occurred along the North-South Highway, Llandovery Main Road,...

Residents of Hopewell and surrounding communities in Hanover are welcoming the start of work on the establishment of a police station, which will bring improved security services to the area. Some 20 communities will benefit from the facility, which is expected to be operational before the start of the new financial year in April, said Commanding Officer for the parish,...

The 43rd staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) will be held on Thursday (January 19) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston, under the theme ‘Strengthening Communities through Peace, Justice and Forgiveness’. Speaking at the Annual National Leadership Prayer Service, held at the Kingston Open Bible Church on Sunday (January 15), Chairman of the NLPB Committee, Rev. Sam...

Residents of Southern Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland, which is under a Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO), are enjoying a year of relative peace since the security measure was instituted on January 16, 2022. Prime Minister, the Most Hon Andrew Holness, declared the ZOSO in the communities of Russia, Darling Street, and Dexter Street as a strategy to cauterise the rise in...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is intensifying its recruitment exercise this year as the organisation looks to increase the complement of law-enforcement personnel serving islandwide. Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, informed that approximately 1,260 new constables were recruited during the 2021/22 financial year. “We are seeking to do another similar [number] this year; and for the first time in,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the amendments to be made to the Offences Against the Person Act, will clarify and reinforce that the punishment for capital murder in Jamaica is the death penalty. “Somehow, somewhere it got into the minds of criminals that this is not the case, that after 15 years, sometimes with good behaviour, that...