Murdered Youth Advocate Was Not A Cop

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The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is refuting claims that youth advocate Omar Bailey was a policeman.

Bailey’s bullet-riddled body was found in an open lot in Portmore, St. Catherine on Sunday.

President of the National Youth Council, Ryan Small, had identified Bailey as a School Resource Officer, a youth parliamentarian and President of the Jamaica Youth Crime Prevention Council.

He says he had always known Bailey to be a member of the force who was in possession of a JCF identification card.

But Director of Communications in the JCF, Karl Angell, says the deceased was not a member of the constabulary.

In fact, he says Bailey was charged twice for impersonating a policeman.

Angell says in order to be a School Resource Officer, one has to be a member of the police force.

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Youth advocate and convenor of the Jamaica Youth Crime Prevention Council, is the latest victim of gun violence.
He's Omar Bailey, who at the time of his death, served as a Safe School Officer (SRO) for the Jamaica Constabulary Force, and a National Youth Parliamentarian.


Bailey's body was discovered on Sunday, in an open lot in the central parish of St. Catherine.
He was shot at least three times in the head, chest and neck.


Chairman of the National Youth Council of Jamaica, (NYCJ) Ryan Small said news of Bailey's untimely passing, comes as a shock to the entire organization.
He said the NYCJ members became suspicious, when Bailey failed to turn up for Monday's scheduled meeting of the crime prevention council, which he had organised.


The NYCJ Chairman called on persons with information, to assist the police, so that those responsible can b

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How old was he?