Deputy Commissioner of Police Fitz Bailey is calling on Jamaicans for help with information that can lead to capturing the more than 200 wanted criminals, saying the police cannot actively conduct crime-fighting efforts on their own.
“I want to appeal to these individuals who are wanted by the police to turn themselves in. I also want to appeal to their relatives to encourage them to surrender to the police, and to citizens within the various communities to encourage these individuals to report or hand themselves in to the police,” said Bailey, who was addressing a police press conference at the NCB Towers in Kingston on Thursday.
“Religious groups, pastors, justices of the peace, and even attorneys at law, I encourage you to encourage these individuals to surrender to the police,” he added.
In his address, Bailey listed more than 80 wanted criminals who are wanted for serious offences such as shooting, rape, murder and wounding. He said the criminals are very dangerous, armed and will shoot and kill.
At the same time, he described Jamaica’s crime level as intolerable and abnormal as there is a continuation of vicious, gruesome and brutal acts of violence by criminals.
