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Monday, June 19, 2006
Crime in six of nine volatile east Kingston communities in Jamaica is declining. This drop follows the implementation of a 'Ninety-Day Crime Reduction Action Plan', police say.
The action plan came out of a need to stem the ongoing high levels of shootings, murders and all other major crime in the eastern Kingston.
For the period March 1 to June 1, only 19 murders were reported, compared to 50 in the corresponding period for 2005. Local police identified seven hot spots for crime in the division.
Superintendent Assan Thompson said the smashing of a major car stealing ring whose network stretched as far as the western parish of St James was one of the high points of the plan.
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