"No" to foreign cops.The Police Federation--which represents the more than 7,000 rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is the police force of the island nation of Jamaica. The police force has manpower of approximately 8,000. The current commissioner is Lucius A. Thomas of Saint Ann. - says it will not support the government's plan to recruit cops from overseas, as part of the administration's strategy to deal with run-away crime, reports The Jamaica Observer (Oct. 25, 2004). "We will not encourage any move by government that will disenfranchise dis·en·fran·chise tr.v. dis·en·fran·chised, dis·en·fran·chis·ing, dis·en·fran·chis·es To disfranchise. dis our membership, or anything that will put the employment and upward mobility upward mobility n. The state of being upwardly mobile. upward mobility Noun movement from a lower to a higher economic and social status of our members at risk," said the federation's chairman, Inspector Handel Morgan. According to the force's planning and research department, the island's police-to-population ratio is one police to every 343 citizens, the highest in the Caribbean. JCF JCF Jewish Community Federation JCF JESSI (Joint European Submicron Silicon Initiative) Common Framework JCF Joint Contingency Force JCF Jacques Chahine Finance JCF Jamaica Chess Federation JCF Jewelers Charity Fund for Children insiders say there is a recommendation for the strength of the force to be increased from the current 8,172 to 12,000, which would reduce the ratio to one police to every 217 civilians. |
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