The police have killed an average of three persons each week since the start of the year. This is a decline over the rate for the same period last year.
That’s according to the Assistant Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations, INDECOM, Hamish Campbell.
Mr. Campbell says newly-appointed Police Commissioner, Carl Williams, must ensure that the rate of police killings continue its downward trend.
According to INDECOM figures, 96 people have been killed by the police since the start of the year.
The INDECOM Assistant Commissioner says the rate of fatal police shootings in Jamaica is ‘extraordinarily high and disproportionate to its population and police force’, in comparison with other countries.
He says this is unfortunate.
But, Mr. Campbell says the 96 people killed by the Police so far this year is a ‘marked reduction’ when compared to last year.
Mr. Campbell says the new Police Commissioner-designate should not be allowed to preside over any increase in fatal shootings by the police.
Mr. Campbell was speaking this afternoon at a Rotary Club of downtown, Kingston meeting at the Hotel Four Seasons, in New Kingston.
Meanwhile, INDECOM says it’s investigating the double killing of two men in Portmore, St. Catherine by the police on Monday.
The dead men have been identified as Dadrian Davis and Okeelie Brown.
They were killed in the community of Garveymeade.
INDECOM says there’re conflicting accounts of the incident from the police and residents.
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