Message from Communication Director for the JCF on Rape

We are approaching the start of the summer holidays. This is the time when most children and teenagers are either at home or are engaged in numerous activities which require them to be on the streets more often than they would be when in schools.

Analysis over the years indicates that during the summer holidays, there is an increase in the number of sexual offences perpetrated against children and teenagers. Therefore, during this period, it is necessary to promulgate certain safety tips to the general public.

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Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) personnel, mainly School Resource Officers, officers from the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) as well as the Community Safety and Security Branch have been visiting schools and other institutions promoting these safety tips. These JCF outreach programmes cannot by themselves achieve the required goal of sensitising the majority of our young people.

In an attempt to broaden the scope of our efforts in sensitising our children and adults of the inherent dangers of rape, carnal abuse and other sexual offences, the JCF is seeking the assistance of the media in promulgating the attached rape safety tips.

Rape and carnal abuse are heinous crimes which cause untold hardship to victims. Please assist by increasing the level of awareness.

Respectfully yours,

Karl Angell

Director of Communication