THE head of the agency charged with probing deaths, injuries, and alleged abuses by Jamaica’s security forces is calling for a major rethink of how body-worn cameras are deployed across the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) Commissioner Hugh Faulkner argues that most of the JCF’s body-worn cameras are concentrated within the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch, whose officers are largely assigned to patrol commercial districts.

“Indecom is of the considered view that this deployment pattern is fundamentally incongruent with the operational and legal imperative facing the JCF and, by extension, Jamaica, particularly given the current high and deeply concerning incidents of police-involved fatalities,” Faulkner said at a Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) policy round table on body-worn cameras among law enforcement in Jamaica at The Courtleigh Hotel & Suites in New Kingston on May 27.