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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : # Jamaican police intro... ( Gleaner )...</span>
As the police force tries to build on the over seven per cent reduction in major crimes recorded for last year, it has instituted a new system for determining the cause of violent crimes. The new system, the Violence Attribution and Assessment Policy 2011, is aimed at providing comprehensive understanding of the variables that are at work when a homicide or shooting incident occurs. This means that while in the past the motive for a murder may have been listed as robbery, the police will now go a step further to see whether the robbery might be gang related. The new direction stems from an analysis which has shown that though police believe that about 70 per cent of violent crimes committed in Jamaica are gang related, this is not reflected in its official statistics, which puts the number at 20 per cent. The new system requires an early assessment of the situation surrounding the incident, and the making of decisions regarding the appropriate operational and investigative responses. The police high command says that in many instances incidents of violence are followed by further violence in the form of revenge or reprisal. It says an understanding of the probable cause and the context provides the opportunity for the police to better prevent the continuation of violence. Based on information in the Force Orders, the Divisional Intelligence Unit will play a pivotal role in conducting this assessment within the first hour of the incident. The new system, which came into effect at the start of the year, will focus on shootings and homicides then later expanded to deal with all violent crimes. The categories to be used under the system are gang-related, domestic, mob killing, criminal, but not gang related or associated with other crimes and, not yet established.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : # Jamaican police intro... ( Gleaner )...</span>
As the police force tries to build on the over seven per cent reduction in major crimes recorded for last year, it has instituted a new system for determining the cause of violent crimes. The new system, the Violence Attribution and Assessment Policy 2011, is aimed at providing comprehensive understanding of the variables that are at work when a homicide or shooting incident occurs. This means that while in the past the motive for a murder may have been listed as robbery, the police will now go a step further to see whether the robbery might be gang related. The new direction stems from an analysis which has shown that though police believe that about 70 per cent of violent crimes committed in Jamaica are gang related, this is not reflected in its official statistics, which puts the number at 20 per cent. The new system requires an early assessment of the situation surrounding the incident, and the making of decisions regarding the appropriate operational and investigative responses. The police high command says that in many instances incidents of violence are followed by further violence in the form of revenge or reprisal. It says an understanding of the probable cause and the context provides the opportunity for the police to better prevent the continuation of violence. Based on information in the Force Orders, the Divisional Intelligence Unit will play a pivotal role in conducting this assessment within the first hour of the incident. The new system, which came into effect at the start of the year, will focus on shootings and homicides then later expanded to deal with all violent crimes. The categories to be used under the system are gang-related, domestic, mob killing, criminal, but not gang related or associated with other crimes and, not yet established.