| Mon - Thur 8:30 am - 5:00pm, Friday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Government of Jamaica ja-flag
Advertisement
JIS Heritage Competition 2025

News

Latest Stories

Corporal Kevin Watson of the Major Organized Crime Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) (centre), interact with students of Salt Spring Primary School in St. James, during a Lottery Scamming Prevention Campaign in Schools initiative, held at the institution on Wednesday (Jan. 28).
Corporal Kevin Watson of the Major Organized Crime Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) (centre), interact with students of Salt Spring Primary School in St. James, during a Lottery Scamming Prevention Campaign in Schools initiative, held at the institution on Wednesday (Jan. 28).

Schools Targeted Under Lottery Scam Prevention Campaign

By: Glenis Rose, January 31, 2015
The Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force (MOCA) is targeting schools under a campaign aimed at eliminating lottery scamming in western Jamaica. The Lottery Scamming Prevention Campaign in Schools...
Newly appointed Head of the Community Safety and Security Branch (CSSB), Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bishop Dr. Gary Welch, addresses a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on January 27, at the Agency’s Head Office, where he outlined plans of the CSSB for 2015.

CSSB Commits to Continuation and Expansion of Safe Schools Programme

By: Shelly-Ann Irving, January 28, 2015
Minister of National Security, the Hon. Peter Bunting. (FILE)

Government to Pursue Strategies to Maintain Downward Trend in Violent Crimes

By: Latonya Linton, January 27, 2015

More Stories

Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Antony Anderson (left), who is clad in the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) new Digital Combat Uniform (DCU), symbolically hands over a uniform to Warrant Officer Class 1, Anthony Lysight. Occasion was the official unveiling of the uniform today (January 14), at the JDF Headquarters, Up Park Camp. The uniform, which replaces the Disrupted Pattern Material (DPM) camouflage, will become standard issue on January 15.
National Security

JDF Unveils New Uniform

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on Wednesday, January 14, unveiled a new Digital Combat Uniform (DCU) to replace the Disrupted Pattern Material (DPM) camouflage that soldiers have worn since 1992....
Read more
By: Shelly-Ann Irving, January 15, 2015
National Security

Murder Figure Lowest in 11 Years

Through sustained and intensified crime fighting strategies, murders in 2014 were at their lowest in 11 years, says Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams. He noted that the year 2014...
Read more
By: Chris Patterson, January 8, 2015
Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams, addressing journalists during a press conference at his Old Hope Road offices in Kingston today (Jan. 7).
National Security

JCF to Continue Dismantling Gangs

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will continue to focus its crime fighting strategies on dismantling gangs across the island, this year, Commissioner of Police, Dr. Carl Williams, has emphasised. The...
Read more
By: Chris Patterson, January 8, 2015