Assistant Commissioner of Police murdered:

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"...Persons who saw when ACP Kameka arrived in Irish Town said he was in the company of a few women.

One resident told The Gleaner that the ACP was followed on to a pathway by one of three men who were travelling in a Toyota Corolla station wagon. One of the men is said to have walked in the direction of the house where the ACP had gone. They have not been seen since.

Mr. Kameka's silver Toyota Rav 4 motor car, parked on the side of the road in Irish Town, and the battery of senior police officers on the scene spoke volumes about what had happened.

The most senior policeman to be murdered in Jamaica, ACP Kameka is the fifth of eight children - six boys and two girls - for parents, Noel and Iris Kameka.

"This is like a dream. Mi numb like I don't have any feelings," said his mother, who was informed of the tragedy by a neighbour on hearing a radio bulletin.

"One thing I know is that if any of his family got in trouble with the law, he wasn't one to interfere. Wrong is wrong for him.

"I am very depressed, don't even know how to explain it," said his brother Owen, as the tears ran down his cheeks.

ACP Kameka leaves behind four children - the youngest four years old - and wife, Dianne.

Mark Shields, Deputy Commis-sioner of Police (DCP) in charge of crime, has appealed for help in solving both police murders.

"We are asking anyone who has any information to come forward," DCP Shields said.

Similarly, Derrick Smith, Minister of National Security, has condemned the killing and has asked Jamaicans to believe in the JCF"(Retrieved on 11/30/2007 from http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead1.html ).

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"In Montego Bay, St. James, gunmen went on a shooting spree, killing five persons and wounding a sixth during separate incidents that occurred between Wednesday night and yesterday morning. Two persons were also murdered in August Town, St. Andrew"(Retrieved on 11/30/2007 from http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...ead/lead1.html ).

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To rahtid...and me think me was wanted???

[Tuff Gong]

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Thomas defends Tivoli operation
published: Friday | October 7, 2005

Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer

STUNG BY criticism from the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and residents of West Kingston about Tuesday's joint police/military raid in Tivoli Gardens, Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas yesterday defended the controversial expedition, saying it was justified.

<span style='font-size: 17pt'><span style="color: #FF0000">Over 70 persons were detained and four persons shot during the early morning siege which the police say was conducted to apprehend suspects in the murders of three policemen in early May. None of the men were captured</span>.</span>

West Kingston Member of Parliament, Bruce Golding and JLP spokesman on national security, Derrick Smith, accused the security forces of using terrorist tactics.

"The picture has been painted that the security forces launched a calculated assault on the citizens of the community of Tivoli Gardens ... This is unfortunate as it is completely false," said Commissioner Thomas.

According to Mr. Thomas, the raid was carefully planned by a police/military team and had the support of a 'silent majority' in West Kingston. Pointing to police statistics, he denied that Tuesday's curfew of Tivoli Gardens was another attempt by security forces to destroy that community.

"Since the start of the year we have conducted operations in all police divisions and in all communities across the island.

"A total of 10, 518 raids, 145 cordons and searches, and 20 curfews were executed," he explained. Commissioner Thomas added that 645 planned raids were conducted in the neighbouring constituency of South St. Andrew compared to one in West Kingston.

"We are not naive and while we are aware of the political leanings of some communities, our operational activities will never be influenced by those considerations," he said.

The police said 74 persons were detained in West Kingston during the raid, seven of them have been charged, one of them for shooting with intent. Some 30 cellular phones were also found at the home of one of the alleged suspects.

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and Justin O'Gilvie, influential figures in West Kingston, were arrested at their upper St. Andrew homes. Mr. Coke and his girlfriend were arrested and charged for possession of a ganja spliff. Mr. O'Gilvie was released without being charged, while Mr. Coke and his girlfriend were released after posting $20,000 bail in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

<span style="color: #3333FF"><span style='font-size: 17pt'><u>PROBE LAUNCHED </u>

Commissioner Thomas said the Bureau of Special Investigation has launched a probe into the shooting of the residents, three of whom are women. Assistant Commissioner of Police, Gilbert Kameka, who was one of the operation's commanding officers, said the police are considering action against Mr. Golding and Councillor for the Tivoli Gardens division, Desmond McKenzie, for violating curfew orders. Both men were on the streets of West Kingston while the curfew was still on. The curfew was lifted at 3:00 p.m. Tuesday.</span></span>

Said Golding in a statement yesterday: "I am not above the law and neither is Mr. Kameka or the men over whom he exercised command on Tuesday. I will make myself available to be arrested and charged at anytime convenient to Mr. Kameka."

Mr. Golding claimed that two of the injured women - Nicola Johnson and Carol Woodley - were shot just yards away from him, while he was speaking to constituents near the Denham Town Primary School at North Street.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20051007/lead/lead2.html

[remo]

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Scary stuff is this revenge by the current party in power?

Or is it a contract,reprisal,somebody settling a score or all of di above?

Now tuff mi juss askin no need to take dis personal

[Q3210]

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Are you insinuating that ACP Kameka was an opposer to the ruling regime at present?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Scary stuff is this revenge by the current party in power?

Or is it a contract,reprisal,somebody settling a score or all of di above?

Now tuff mi juss askin no need to take dis personal </div></div>

No it is not revenge by the Party, but I am not so sure that it is not a reprisal by individuals for what he has done in the past.
It could also be a simple robbery of his personal possessions.
It is Jamaica and like I have said many times the police, policing and the administration of the security portfolio is the problem.

BTW ACP G. Kameka is someone I knew personally!

[remo]

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Oh come on Tuff I think you can rule out simple robbery

[remo]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are you insinuating that ACP Kameka was an opposer to the ruling regime at present? </div></div>

Having read the above article I think this is possible

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Oh come on Tuff I think you can rule out simple robbery </div></div>

You think or you know?
How can you rule out Robbery?
Folks get jacked daily and their guns, cellies, etc are stolen.... Could you rule out Robbery in the incidents where:

The policeman was killed in Olympic Gardens
Montego Bay
Yesterday in Hannah Town
Or Bruce Golding's Daughter

[RichD]

Re: Assistant Commissioner of Police murdered:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are you insinuating that ACP Kameka was an opposer to the ruling regime at present? </div></div>

Having read the above article I think this is possible </div></div>

i guess its also possible that he ws getting ready sey sumtint hat might embarass his former masters.

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are you insinuating that ACP Kameka was an opposer to the ruling regime at present? </div></div>

Having read the above article I think this is possible </div></div>

i guess its also possible that he ws getting ready sey sumtint hat might embarass his former masters. </div></div>

Could be according to reports he was talking to ACP Leon Rose.

[Dr.Dudd]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: remo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Are you insinuating that ACP Kameka was an opposer to the ruling regime at present? </div></div>

Having read the above article I think this is possible </div></div>

i guess its also possible that he ws getting ready sey sumtint hat might embarass his former masters. </div></div>

Could be according to reports he was talking to ACP Leon Rose. </div></div>
I see!!

[Tuff Gong]

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The other half of that ill-fated raid on Tivoli is now the next:

<span style='font-size: 17pt'><span style="color: #6600CC">New Commissioner of Police</span> </span>
Friday, 30 November 2007

Former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has reportedly been selected to head the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

The Police Service Commission submitted its selection to Governor General Sir Kenneth Hall Friday.

The selection was also sent to Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson-Miller.

An official announcement is to be made on Monday.

The former army man will be the second person from outside the Jamaica Constabulary Force to head that organization.

He follows another former JDF officer Colonel Trevor McMillan, who headed the force in the 1990's.

The former JDF Chief of Staff will take office at a time when the country's murder total has passed the 14-hundred mark and the nation is crying out for a solution.

http://www.radiojamaica.com/content/view/3476/26/

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dats all wi need... a rear admiral [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rolleyes.gif[/img]