JFJ wants swift justice

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the police have been challenged to speed up the process to arrest and charge members of the force involved in crimes.

Reacting to news that a policeman has been arrested eight years after the DPP ruled that he should be charged for murder, the human rights group, Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), has called for immediate changes to the process.

"JFJ wishes to remind the authorities who have the power to make the necessary changes that there are dozens of other policemen who have fled the country rather than face the courts," the group said in a release yesterday.

"Efforts must be made urgently to fix the delays and systemic weaknesses that allow them to abscond, as well as to ensure that they are brought back to Jamaica to face justice," added the JFJ.

The JFJ said the DPP should tell the public what efforts have been made to find policemen on the run, and how many extradition requests have been made in these cases.