Police stations to receive funds for maintenance — Montague
KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Security Minister Robert Montague says that police stations are to receive $250,000 for routine maintenance.
“It is to fix the bathroom, to fix the kitchen, to help with the electrical installation, to fix a window,” Montague noted at a handing over ceremony for a standby generator at the Ocho Rios police station in St Ann in Thursday (August 31).
“What we have done is to ask the head of every station to do a project and to involve the community and where that project has to be signed off by the consultative committee, which is chaired by the Custos. I am pleased to inform that every police station in St Ann has submitted their project to do some type of work,” he said.
As it relates to the provision of protective equipment, Montague said that 3, 500 ballistic vests have been procured and deployed.
“I remember about nearly two months ago when the police had a confrontation with the most wanted man in Westmoreland and where the life of one of our young constables was saved by the ballistic vest,” he remarked.
