COVID not stopping JCF recruitment

Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson, says despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) recruitment drive continues.

“I have 600 people in training now, and 360 graduated since March. This is unprecedented and how we got there was that we are now running four different training facilities, because we still have to maintain COVID distances and so on,” he noted, during a recent virtual press briefing.

Anderson said the aim is to recruit and train approximately 1,500 persons per year.

“We lost some time last year. We were hoping to recruit 1,500 persons per year… . What we have committed to is 1,200 this year and we can make it,” he said.

“We have the capacity to train those 1,200 and probably up to 1,500 in a year. We have never been able to move off that mark of [approximately] 11,000 members for the last 12 years… and we have an engine now that can generate it,” he argued.

Meanwhile, he said the JCF is not averse to reviewing entry requirements where necessary, and that the aim is to recruit law-abiding citizens who are committed to the betterment of their country.