KINGSTON, Jamaica–Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Stephanie Lindsay has emphasised that Jamaica’s national security agenda must extend beyond policing and crime control in the post-Hurricane Melissa era.

She described the devastation left behind by the category f¹ive storm as a “wake-up call” that has fundamentally rewritten the rules of survival for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

“The citizens of Jamaica must see national security [as more than] crime and violence. We must [widen] the lens and confront other dimensions of global security [challenges] that determine [our survival] as a nation,” SSP Lindsay stated.