The country’s security apparatus will not ease up, despite the continued reduction in murders year over year.
That’s the word of Deputy Prime Minister and National Security Minister, Dr. Horace Chang, in a statement in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
On the weekend, Commissioner of Police, Dr Kevin Blake, indicated that Jamaica had recorded its lowest quarterly murder figure in more than 30 years.
This, as the third quarter of the year, covering the period July 1 to September 30, saw 122 murders.
The third-quarter performance means two of the first three quarters of 2026 established successive 30-year lows for murders.
Dr. Chang says the government’s focus now is to convert public safety into public order.
Dr. Horace Chang, Minister of National Security and Peace.
