THE Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) yesterday warned its members to be on high alert, saying that it had intelligence that criminals belonging to gangs, which operated in Western Kingston, were regrouping.
According to the JCF, criminals were making new threats against the lives of its members following a series of operations to disrupt criminal networks in West Kingston and across the country.
“This regrouping is being done primarily in Denham Town and comes against the background of continued and effective police operations being carried out in the Western Kingston especially in the Coronation Market area,” the JCF said in a news release.
Yesterday, senior officers in several police divisions said they were on high alert and that they would ensure that their members do the same.
“We are taking the calls very seriously,” Deputy Superintendent Horace Creary from Kingston West Police Division told the Observer.
Deputy Superintendent Carl Malcolm, from the St Andrew South Division said, he too was taking the warning seriously.
“But the police will continue to carry out our duties and will not be distracted, but we will remain on the look out,” Malcolm said.
Yesterday, during a tour of sections of downtown Kingston from where reports of the new threats reportedly came, several policemen were seen moving in groups as they carried out their duties.
Earlier the Police High Command advised that “deployments must not fall below defensive levels, and personnel should be prepared to act swiftly and decisively in defence of themselves and colleagues.”
It also warned “criminal elements and those who sympathise with them that the Police remain undeterred in the fight to defeat organised crime.”
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