Jamaica appoints veteran police commander as new top cop
KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Jamaica has appointed a veteran law enforcement commander to lead its police force.
National Security Minister Peter Bunting announced Monday that Carl Williams will start as police commissioner next week.
Williams led anti-drug efforts from 2000 to 2004. He developed a task force to combat lottery scammers and is the founding director of another police unit tasked with fighting organized crime. The 50-year-old Jamaican joined the police in 1984.
He takes the place of Owen Ellington, whose retirement was announced by the government in late June.
Ellington’s retirement comes ahead of a fact-finding inquiry into the conduct of security forces during a bloody 2010 state of emergency. The government said it would also allow a panel to probe allegations of police killings without “any perception of influence” on his part.
The Associated Press
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