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The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was established by Law 8 of 1867, during the period of British colonialism in Jamaica and two years after the Morant Bay rebellion.The JCF was intended to be a civil body with a military structure and was based on the Royal Irish Constabulary. [1]
The 2010 Kingston unrest, an armed conflict between Jamaica and Shower Posse, started in 23 May 2010, when members of the group assaulted four police stations in southwestern Kingston and managed to loot and partially burn out one of the stations, with a second police station also burnt down. [11] [12]
When the war began, Colleymore enlisted [4] in the Auxiliary Territorial Service and was initially placed in the stenography pool in Jamaica. She trained for the nursing service, but seeking more excitement, asked to join the Anti-Aircraft Service and go overseas. [2] From 1943 to 1946, she served as a radar operator in Belgium and the United ...
Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) Spain. Spanish West Indies; Commonwealth of England: Treaties of Madrid (1667 and 1670) The English invasion of Jamaica takes place in May 1655. Spain formally cedes several territories to England, including Jamaica, in 1670. First Maroon War (1728–1740) Windward Maroons. Leeward Maroons. British Empire. Colony ...
Jevene Bent is a former Jamaican police officer who was deputy commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force from 2003 to 2013, the first woman to hold this rank. She later served as Commissioner of Corrections from 2013 to 2014. Bent grew up in a small farming community near Southfield, Jamaica.
During the occupation, as part of the State Security Corps, Paleolog trained future female cadres for the post-war Polish police. After the war she remained in exile in Great Britain, where she cooperated with Scotland Yard, and in 1952, she published the first monograph of the Polish women's police entitled "The women police of Poland (1925 ...
During the election of 1864, fewer than 2,000 black Jamaican men were eligible to vote (no women could vote at the time) out of a total population of more than 436,000, in which blacks outnumbered whites by a ratio of 32:1. Prior to the rebellion, conditions in Jamaica had been worsening for poor blacks.
Una Maud Victoria Marson (6 February 1905 – 6 May 1965) [1] was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer, producing poems, plays and radio programmes.. She travelled to London in 1932 and became the first black woman to be employed by the BBC, during World War II. [2]