FORMER Commissioner of Police Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has dismissed what he charged are the frequent excuses from the Government and the leadership of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to deploy body-worn cameras on planned operations.

Lewin, who was speaking Wednesday during a Jamaicans for Justice policy roundtable on body-worn cameras among law enforcement in Jamaica, at the Courtleigh Hotel in New Kingston, scoffed at the reasons given for members of the JCF to not be routinely outfitted with cameras.

The former head of the JCF and the Jamaica Defence Force was responding to a question from moderator George Davis about the $2-billion spend by the Government to bolster the crime-fighting capabilities of the police, including the procurement of body-worn cameras.