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The Crime Monitoring and Oversight Committee (CMOC) has expressed concern that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will not meet its target of recruiting 1,000 persons by the end of March 2021.
The recruitment target was one of six key deliverables cited by CMOC, which are due next month. The target was that we should have had an increase of 1,000 new (JCF) recruits by the end of March 2021. At the end of December, we are at 359 (recruits), Distant disclosed. We are tracking behind, and the explanation that has been provided to us is that the impact of COVID-19, as well as the budgetary constraints, would have hampered the efforts by the JCF to hit the targeted recruitment number, he continued.
Chairman of the Crime Monitoring and Oversight Committee (CMOC), Lloyd Distant Jr, has revealed that two of the four key deliverables within the National Crime Consensus Agreement has been substantially completed.
Among them are the approval of regulations to make the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) an independent body, and the strengthening of the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau (IPROB) within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
But the CMOC is concerned that the other two deliverables in relation to regulations for the appointment of board members and the formation of a task force on procurement, have not been achieved.