JamaicaEye is part of an island wide network of camera surveillance systems designed to increase the safety of all citizens. These cameras will monitor public spaces across the island and assist the authorities in responding to incidents in the event of an incident, disaster, act of criminality or accident.
If you have a camera system outside your home or office, facing a public space you may help by registering your camera with Jamaica Eye to share your camera feed.
Community Policing
We Serve and Protect
The traditional style of policing used in Jamaica and many other countries for many years is not suitable to deliver modern policing and community safety services. The demands of our modern age requires that the police act in partnership with the public and with other public, private and voluntary sector organisations to deliver collaborative services that address crime, fear of crime and other safety issues which concern communities. Community policing is central to the concept of community safety. The Corporate Strategy of the Jamaica Constabulary Force specifically mandates the employment of community policing in its efforts to fight crime in Jamaica.
Police Youth Club
Molding Young Minds
The Police Youth Club movement is the conduit through which the J.C.F molds and provides a positive influence on the young people of this country. As a direct result of this mandate, Police Youth Clubs have been instrumental in developing programmes to meet the ever changing and challenging needs of young people – guiding and steering them in the direction of being worthwhile and productive citizens of Jamaica.
HISTORY
In the 1950’s when an Acting Corporal stationed at the Sandy Bay Police St
action in Hanover went outside the ambit of regular policing and settled a family dispute by way of mediation, no one had an inkling that this initiative would lead to the formation of Jamaica’s first Police Youth Club.
Today, there are over 400 Police Youth Clubs located in the 19 Police Geographic Divisions. This growth is a clear indication of the importance the J.C.F places in developing strong and robust police-citizen relationship especially with our young people.
Youth Clubs have over the years successfully identified and developed the leadership skills and competencies of our young people. Police Youth Clubs are engaged in other aspects of community life, such as caring for the elderly, adopting and developing basic schools, hosting and engaging in sporting activities and harnessing the entrepreneurial skills of its members by promoting the benefits of efficiently managing small or micro business enterprises.
They also contribute in developing administrative skills, etiquette and other value systems. The Police Youth Club has a very heavy focus on the development of self-esteem, self-actualization and other aspects of personal skills thereby enhancing the process of problem solving and interpersonal and social relationships.
Neighbourhood Watch
Neighbourhood Watch
The Neighbourhood Watch programme unites citizens in a community to protect themselves and their property, by reducing the risk of crime. It was launched in Jamaica in 1987. Neighbourhood Watch signs are strategically placed at the entrance(s) to the communities, as public declarations by the residents that they are alert, crime-conscious and united against crime.