JAMAICA: Security forces push back on murder spree
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National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang will today be meeting with law enforcers in May Pen, Clarendon, where a 96-hour curfew has been imposed, starting yesterday evening, in response to the recent spike in shootings in the parish which have left seven people dead over a 48-hour period.
Dr Chang underscored that the security forces will be hunting gangsters responsible for the mayhem unfolding in the parish.
“The objective is to have at least a 96-hour curfew and make every effort, by deployment of the security forces, to apprehend a number of the critical players out there and then allow normalcy to return. So we will be taking strong action in terms of the additional manpower and the operational activities out there. The security forces will seek to track down these murderous characters wherever they are; find them, apprehend them and prosecute them,” Dr Chang told journalists in Montego Bay yesterday.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Micheal Smith (right), head of the Area 3 police, leading a high-level police team on a tour of Effortville in Clarendon last night. Eight persons were shot in the community, five fatally, between Wednesday and Thursday. Other members of the team include Senior Superintendent Glenford Miller, head of the Clarendon Division; Superintendent Christopher Philips; Deputy Superintendent Owen Brown; and DSP Dodd.
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Relatives of one of the victims killed in a spate of gun attacks in Effortville, Clarendon, on Wednesday night have since fled the community after reportedly being threatened that their house would be burnt to the ground, even as a curfew has been imposed on the area to restore a sense of calm.
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