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Thursday, March 19, 2009
GOVERNMENT will be acquiring seven mobile forensic units to allow for speedier collecting of samples at crime scenes, as part of an ongoing upgrading of the police's evidence-gathering capabilities.
The vehicles cost US$85,000 each and the cost of five will be paid by the British Government, which has been working closely with Jamaica to modernise the constabulary.
Hayden Baldwin (second right), forensic consultant to the Jamaica Constabulary Force, makes a point to Detective Inspector Lloyd Crawford (right), while Detective Inspector Cecil Clarke (second left) and Superintendent Terrence Sancko look on. Crawford and Clarke were recently certified by the International Crime Scene Investigators Association. (Photo: Bryan Cummings)
Taxpayers will pay the US$170,000 (J$15.3 million) for the two other vehicles.
Assistant Commissioner Les Green, head of the Serious and Organised Crime Division, told a press briefing at the Major Investigation Task Force headquarters in downtown Kingston that the acquisition of the vehicles should have a positive impact on the fight against crime.
"We are in the process of ordering mini-laboratories to be positioned around the island and to be used for forensic crime scene investigation," Green said.
The order is now before the National Contracts Committee and the vehicles are expected to arrive in the island about four months after the committee grants its approval.
The media were, at the same time, introduced to two local cops who were recently certified by the US-based International Crime Scene Investigators Association.
The cops - Detective Inspectors Cecil Clarke and Lloyd Crawford - are two of 58 cops who had received forensic training under the constabulary's modernisation programme.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...NSIC_UNITS.asp
GOVERNMENT will be acquiring seven mobile forensic units to allow for speedier collecting of samples at crime scenes, as part of an ongoing upgrading of the police's evidence-gathering capabilities.
The vehicles cost US$85,000 each and the cost of five will be paid by the British Government, which has been working closely with Jamaica to modernise the constabulary.
Hayden Baldwin (second right), forensic consultant to the Jamaica Constabulary Force, makes a point to Detective Inspector Lloyd Crawford (right), while Detective Inspector Cecil Clarke (second left) and Superintendent Terrence Sancko look on. Crawford and Clarke were recently certified by the International Crime Scene Investigators Association. (Photo: Bryan Cummings) Taxpayers will pay the US$170,000 (J$15.3 million) for the two other vehicles.
Assistant Commissioner Les Green, head of the Serious and Organised Crime Division, told a press briefing at the Major Investigation Task Force headquarters in downtown Kingston that the acquisition of the vehicles should have a positive impact on the fight against crime.
"We are in the process of ordering mini-laboratories to be positioned around the island and to be used for forensic crime scene investigation," Green said.
The order is now before the National Contracts Committee and the vehicles are expected to arrive in the island about four months after the committee grants its approval.
The media were, at the same time, introduced to two local cops who were recently certified by the US-based International Crime Scene Investigators Association.
The cops - Detective Inspectors Cecil Clarke and Lloyd Crawford - are two of 58 cops who had received forensic training under the constabulary's modernisation programme.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...NSIC_UNITS.asp