Police Targeting Contract Killings – Commissioner Anderson

Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says the police will be targeting persons who have been contracted to carry out killings and those who hire them.

He said that there has been a rise in contract killings in recent years, and the police will be going after those involved.

“The other feature we are seeing is that there are people who have been paid to do killings; we are on it. We have some ideas about who may be involved – some of them.

“We have very specific targeted, investigative, and operational techniques that will be used against this particular set of people. We are on their trail. We will, over the next few months, see more and more of these people come to book,” Commissioner Anderson said.

He was speaking to journalists on Thursday (January 13), following a tour of police stations in St. Elizabeth with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang.

Commissioner Anderson said that the police force is committed to using every tool at its disposal to go after criminals.

“We are going to use the tools available to us [and] we will respond to this increase [in crime] that we’re seeing,” he said, adding that the police high command has begun discussions to create several key “operational and investigative responses”.

Commissioner Anderson said that the men and women of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) remain committed to stemming crime and violence, noting that “our police will not resile from what they have sworn to do”.

The tour entailed stops at the Junction, Santa Cruz and Black River police stations as well as the site for the construction of a new police station in Lacovia.