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Sunday, 25 January 2009
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will on Monday launch a new Video Identification system.
The new system is aimed at improving the effectiveness and fairness of Identification Parades and forms part of the JCF's drive to modernize its operations.
In a conventional identification parade, witnesses are asked to pick a suspect from a line of individuals.
As the name suggests, the video identification system uses video images.
The police will record images of the suspects as well as images of other people of a similar description as the suspect.
The witness then picks from that line-up of images on a computer. The police say conventional indentification parades have been hard to arrange because they have trouble finding people, of a similar description as their suspects, to take part in the line ups.
They say witnesses are also exposed when they go to police stations to identify suspects.
The police say by using lap top computers they can go to witnesses instead of having them come to the stations.
Two stations, the Kingston Central and Linstead Police Stations already have the equipment for the new system.
The system is also being installed in Mandeville, Manchester.
According to the police, two more sites have been identified in St. James and St. Ann and these will be outfitted later this year.
The overall plan is to have five fixed video identification sites across the island with one portable system.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/15144/26/
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will on Monday launch a new Video Identification system.
The new system is aimed at improving the effectiveness and fairness of Identification Parades and forms part of the JCF's drive to modernize its operations.
In a conventional identification parade, witnesses are asked to pick a suspect from a line of individuals.
As the name suggests, the video identification system uses video images.
The police will record images of the suspects as well as images of other people of a similar description as the suspect.
The witness then picks from that line-up of images on a computer. The police say conventional indentification parades have been hard to arrange because they have trouble finding people, of a similar description as their suspects, to take part in the line ups.
They say witnesses are also exposed when they go to police stations to identify suspects.
The police say by using lap top computers they can go to witnesses instead of having them come to the stations.
Two stations, the Kingston Central and Linstead Police Stations already have the equipment for the new system.
The system is also being installed in Mandeville, Manchester.
According to the police, two more sites have been identified in St. James and St. Ann and these will be outfitted later this year.
The overall plan is to have five fixed video identification sites across the island with one portable system.
http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/15144/26/
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