Affiliate Programmes

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Affiliate Programes

  • Crime Stop

     

    Solving Crime Pay

    Crime Stop is a partnership between the community, the police and the media designed to involve the public in the fight against crime. Crime Stop encourages the public to give information by offering total anonymity to all callers and, for those who wish, a cash reward for information that leads to an arrest, recovery of stolen property or the seizure of illegal drugs or guns. The programme is administered by the National Crime Prevention Fund and is run under the direction of The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica.

  • School safety Programme

     

    School Resource Officers

    WHAT IS THE SAFE SCHOOLS PROGRAMME (SSP)?

    The Safe Schools Programme is a special programme developed to assist schools in managing violence, antisocial behaviour, truancy, children at risk and generally to keep the school environment safe. The programme will be monitored under the theme “Safe Schools…Everybody’s Business”.

    WHO IS A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER

    A School Resource Officer (SRO) is a Police Officer, who is placed in a school to help maintain and sustain discipline. He/she is responsible to prosecute any student who commits any unlawful act on the school compound. Specifically, the SRO is responsible to identify troubled and disruptive students and bring them to the attention of the schools administration.

    BRIEF HISTORY

    The Public Order Committee of Cabinet directed the formulation of a strategy to reverse the trend of violence affecting schools. In response the Safe Schools Programme was designed as a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency initiative that coordinates the efforts of the government and partners to benefit from the synergy created through the cooperation of all entities. The principal partners from the government are:

    • Ministry of Education (Education Transformation Team, Guidance Unit, Culture Division & Curriculum and Support Services Department).
    • Ministry of National Security
    • Ministry of Health
    • The Jamaica Constabulary Force

  • Community Safety Fund

     

    Partnership at its Best

    The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) with the support of UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Ministry of National Security (MNS) has established a Community Safety Fund (CSF) that will enhance and increase collaboration in relation to JCF and citizen responsiveness to local crime and insecurity issues.

    The Fund compliments the existing GoJ efforts to enhance civil society participation in reducing crime and violence and promote community safety at the local and community levels.

  • 1-800-CORRUPT

     

    Integrity is Everything

    The Jamaica Constabulary Force offers a toll free hotline that guarantees anonymity to callers with information about corrupt actions of police and customs officials.

    The number – 1-800-CORRUPT (1-800-267-7878) – will be answered outside Jamaica at a Crime Stoppers International Call Center, a feature the police hope will give the public, and members of the JCF and Customs confidence to tell what they know.

    People who have been coached in Jamaican Creole will answer the calls.

    Arthur Williams, minister of state in the Ministry of National Security, who formally declared the number open, described corruption as “one of the great enemies of the state”. He said: “This Government has been quite vocal in its determination to uproot corruption and eradicate every seed of this scourge.”

    FEATURES OF 1-800-CORRUPT

    • Different from other police lines in that all calls remain totally anonymous
    • Available to the public of Jamaica, the police and Customs staff to report allegations of corruption totally secure that their personal details will never be divulged.
    • All calls will be answered off the island by trained call centre staff at a secure Crime Stoppers location.
    • Information received at the call centre will be disseminated fast time to a single point of contact within the JCF’s Anti Corruption Branch for analysis and action.

  • Law Enforcement Torch Run

     

    Milestone Title

    The Law Enforcement Torch Run® (LETR) is the premier global avenue for fundraising and public awareness for Special Olympics. These games cater to athletes who are intellectually challenged  by  giving  them  an  opportunity  to  participate  in  several  sporting  disciplines. Under the Special Olympics motto ‘Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt’, athletes are driven to grasp their greatness and inspire others to do the same.

     

    The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) embraced this cause in 1986 and is fully committed to improving the lives of individuals with special needs. In 2011, the local LETR movement was strengthened with the onboarding of partner agencies under the  Ministry  of  National  Security  –  the  Jamaica  Defence  Force,  the  Jamaica  Fire  Brigade, the Department of  Correctional  Services, the Jamaica Customs Agency and the Passport and Immigration Citizens Agency.