Ja: Now we know what the hell the police can do!

Police in Jamaica seem to be abandoning high crime, ad hoc communities. "Police Federation Chairman, Sergeant David White, says he will be lobbying for rank and file members of Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to be freed from policing areas he described as 'zinc fence communities', informal settlements and gully banks" because they are "too dangerous for the police."

Sgt. White said a number of cops "have been shot and injured, some even killed, in those communities.

"These places depict where persons are at war. We were trained as peacemakers, we are not soldiers," said Sergeant White.

"It makes our job more stressful and dangerous."