“If
we can properly track them and keep them under control, this will assist us in
keeping our crime problem down,” the minister stated, while hailing the British
Government as a “tremendous supporter” of Jamaica and the JCF”
Minister of Justice,
Delroy Chuck, commenting on the installation and inauguration of the JCF Electronic
Database
Criminals
may soon have a harder time escaping the long arm of the Jamaican Police.
This
as the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) criminal records Database has been made
into an Electronic Database as reported in “Criminal
records system computerized”, published Friday, June 03, 2016, The Jamaica Observer.
The JCF Electronic Database was formally
launched on Friday June 3rd 2016 at the Police Officers’ Club on
Hope Road in St Andrew. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck addressed gathering at
the Police Officers’ Club on Hope Road in St Andrew.
The
JCF Electronic Database, completed at a cost of $98.1 million with assistance
from the Government of the United Kingdom and UK-based ACRO Criminal Records
Office, replaces the manual format of documentation at the Criminal Records
Office on Duke Street in Kingston.
Other
officials in attendance were:
1.
National Security State Minister,
Senator Pearnel Charles
2.
Acting British High Commissioner to
Jamaica, Her Excellency Julia Sutherland
3.
Chief Justice, Zaila McCalla
4.
Deputy Commissioner of Police, Novelette
Grant
Dr
Carl Williams, was being represented by Deputy Commissioner of Police who was
absent, Novelette Grant, was in attendance. The JCF need all the help they can
get, as crime is spiralling out of control after the first 100 days since the
JLP ascended to power as noted in “Zero
Rating For Crime In First 100 Days”, Published Thursday June 9, 2016 by
Erica Virtue, The Jamaica Gleaner.
So
how exactly will this JCF Electronic Database help the JCF?
JCF Electronic Database
- Modernization of the Manual Database of Criminal Records
JCF
Electronic Database is geared at streamlining the collection of Police records
as it relates to:
1.
Collation of Criminal Data
2.
Storage of new and existing data
3.
Retrieval for use in investigations and
court hearings
The
JCF Electronic Database is Phase one of a (2) two phase program for upgrading
the collection and maintenance of criminal records in database. The Second
Phase will involved the installation of a $134 million (£750,000) JCF’s
fingerprint database, with the majority of the financing being supplied by the
UK Government’s Home Office Conflict, Stability and Security Fund.
Already
the collaboration has resulted in facilitated training of several JCF officers
to use the new JCF Electronic Database. So how can the JDF use these two (2)
databases, the JCF Electronic Database of Criminal Records and the Fingerprint
Database to more effectively fight crime?
JCF Electronic Database
- Linking fingerprints, DNA and CCTV Data to track Criminals
For
one, it now means that identifying criminals from the general population from
forensic evidence will become easier.
There
is the possibility that these databases may also be connected to the
implementation and provisioning of a National DNA Registry under the newly minted
DNA Evidence Act of 2010 which came into effect on Friday December 11th 3015 as
reported in my blog
article entitled “How
the DNA Evidence Act of 2010 passed by Upper House means DNA Searches coming”.
The
UK may also be helping Jamaica to not only set up the National DNA Registry but
even merge them with the criminal records and fingerprints in the JCF Electronic
Database. This'll potentially have an impact on evidence gathering, as it means
you can be identified based on your DNA sample or fingerprints.
The
JCF Electronic Database may even be possible to use audio, picture and video
evidence obtained from the planned CCTV Network to catch traffic offenders,
especially motorcyclists now that they have to have Driver's licenses as noted
in my blog
article entitled “Why
Jamaican Motorcyclists will now have to have a Driver's License”.
It
may even allow the JCF to more appropriately gain access to Telecoms Records
from the Telecom Providers whenever a smartphone or other device is recovered
from the scene of a crime instead of the cumbersome request procedure that is
required as noted in my blog article
entitled “Digicel
Jamaica vs INDECOM and How Jamaican Police can access to Call Subscriber
Records”.
This
will all possible once GovNET is completed as described in my blog article
entitled “How
State Minister Dr. Morais Guy KSA Fiber Optic Network heralds HD CCTV Cameras
and Automated Traffic Ticketing System” and the Government and Civil
Servants, including the JCF Electronic Database are connected.
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