IN JAMAICA: DEATH SQUADs: Ex-cop claims extrajudicial killings are planned, ordered by senior officers

Hinds

Ex-cop claims extrajudicial killings are planned, ordered by senior officersCorey Robinson, Staff Reporter
A RETIRED cop and a serving police officer have broken the unwritten vow of silence within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to reveal how, they claim, cold-blooded killings are ordered by senior officers.
But Deputy Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds has rebuffed the claims relayed to The Sunday Gleaner, arguing that police personnel are sworn to uphold the law and that there are appropriate avenues for them to take if they are ordered to operate contrary to their duties.

“They (police) know their obligations. They know what the law is, and one would want to believe that if they get something that is contrary to the law, then they have recourses,” Hinds insisted, as he noted he was hearing the allegations for the first time. “There are a number of  independent bodies set up to investigate the police.” more