Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands:

Jamaican police officers currently posted to the Turks and Caicos Islands are being credited with helping to drive down murders and major crimes in the British overseas territory which has had no murders in the last eight months.

Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Charles Washington Misick, says the presence of the 28-member Jamaican police contingent has had a “tremendous and positive” impact on national security.