Amnesty International

Amnesty international is again criticizing Jamaica for its human rights record. While it cited instances where Jamaica has shown improvements it still lists incidents of police killings as being to high. Amnesty International stated that of the 222 police killings last year many were of questionable circumstances.

We are happy that we have watchdog groups keeping an eye on the security forces as we know many will use the coverage of the force to carry our their own wrong doings. In the meantime we have to understand that with a country with the unusual high crime rate like Jamaica, it is going to be difficult to have 100% incident free police interactions with criminals. We are hoping that the security forces adhere to all rules of law and their training when executing their duties but at the same time they must relentlessly go after the criminals wherever they are.

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