A joint select committee of Parliament, which had been reviewing the performance of INDECOM during its first five years of operations, has accepted a recommendation from Commissioner Williams that the Justice Protection Act should be amended to allow the minister, by order, to expand the categories of entities that can apply on behalf of persons for admission into the witness protection programme.The committee said, in its report tabled recently in Parliament, that if a pproved, the change will allow the minister to make an order to add the commissioner and any other appropriate person or entity to the list.
The committee has also accepted a request from Commissioner Williams to give
INDECOM investigators the same authority that a police constable has in a Coroner’s Inquest, which would allow them to request the holding of post-mortem examinations. The proposed amendment to Section 5 (93) of the Coroner’s Act would read: “Where a death is alleged to have been caused by a member of the security forces, specified official or other agent of the State, the Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations shall — (a) in respect of each parish, assign an investigator to carry out functions in like manner as a designated police officer under this Act; (b) give written notice of such designation to the coroner; and © cause a designation to be published in the Gazette.” The committee also accepted that there should be an amendment to the Coroner’s Act, stating that: “Where an investigator designated under the provision of section 3 is informed or discovers that a body or part thereof is lying within the parish of his designation as a result of the act or omission of a member of the security forces, specified officials or other agent of the state, it shall be lawful for the designated investigator, in his discretion, to direct any duly qualified medical practitioner to conduct a post-mortem examination of the body, and said designated investigator shall be responsible for collecting and submitting to the commission or other competent authority any evidence required to facilitate further forensic, ballistic or other scientific analysis.”On the other hand, the committee formally requested the establishment of a non-executive board to oversee the commission’s work.
“This board would provide oversight on internal governance matters affecting the organisation, including input on policies with respect to human resources, public relations, budgeting, etcetera,” the report said. Read more here : http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/House-committee-urges-increased-powers-for-INDECOM-boss — — –_45621
Yes, sirs! To all my PNP and JLP ideological police officers of the Jamaican Constabulary Force, your political parties are making sure that you guys are demoralized, depressed, and oppressed.
I am living in America, which has one of the worst human rights records in the 21st century against African American and at no time the local, city, state, or federal government has ever done anything to give criminals that comfortable and the law abiding citizens living in fear.
Well if Jamaica have any derivatives on the NYSE that you can bet about its future. I would be putting everything that I own against the island to fail and in the end I know that I am going to be rich.
“Jamaica is not out of reach from ISIS, to come here and setup shop. Because our politicians are some licky, licky people and once money is involved they are going to look the other way,” said Mutabaruka.
To the so called patriotic police officers in Jamaica, the only future I can see for you guys are destruction of people’s lives, career, and family. The best way to escape the dragnet, and sting operations been setup by the boasie slaves (PNP & JLP politicians) Is to migrate and left Jamaica for the elected and unelected political operatives.
Who have eyes to see, let them see; who have ears to hear, let them. Leave Jamaica so that the politicians and their criminal gangs control the place because Jamaica is the Somalia of the Caribbean Sea.
Chris , you notice that there will be no oversight of the day to day operations of indecom?
So please read a people and their leaders with s**t for brains ‚.