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The legislation will provide an additional game-changing tool to the security forces in combatting criminal gangs.
The report of the Joint Select Committee (JSC) to review the Criminal Justice (Suppression of Criminal Organisations) Act, 2014 was adopted in the House of Representatives in May 2020.
Piloting the Bill, Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, said the latest statistics from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) show that there are 379 gangs in Jamaica.
Of this number, 262 are considered active gangs, which reflects an increase of five per cent over 2019.
âFor the year 2020, 802 or 61 per cent of murders were assessed to be gang-related. The JCF has identified the sources of income for the most influential second-generation gangs to be through contract killing, extortion, robberies and drug and firearm-trafficking activities. As a result, these criminal gangs continue to create mayhem in our society and are the main drivers of the elevated crime rat