| This project aims to provide insight into the manner in which human rights standards can be implemented within the police in Kingston, Jamaica. In the past ten years, the nature of the communities in the slum areas of Kingston has changed from political and economic dependency upon government to drug funded self-sufficiency. Subsequently, control of political elites over gang-related violence has diminished and the police are now charged with the task of enforcing the law in these traditionally hostile communities. Police compensate this lack of cooperation by escalating of aggressive policing. The central issue to be addressed in this project is whether, within such a context, community policing can make a positive contribution to the implementation of human rights within the Jamaica Constabulary Force. |
