[1] Unlike Britain, where policing was by consent, this was not the model adopted in Jamaica, where its purpose was to entrench the colonial system.

They are (in order of highest to lowest): In 2021, the Commissioner of Police, Antony Anderson, announced that the working uniform would be redesigned to accommodate equipment such as body cameras.

[16][17] In September 2006, the government approved a contract get 600 ballistic helmets, 1,500 bullet proof vests, and riot shields for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

[18] In 2013, the Jamaica Constabulary force received 20 motor vehicles, 500 ballistic vests, and 500 tactical uniforms from the United States government.

[19] In September 2021, International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union (EU) donated binoculars, camcorders, night vision goggles, key chain voice recorders, digital voice recorders, mini keychain video cameras, hidden camera glasses, and flexible waterproof tripods to JCF.

[23] In 2003 the Crime Management Unit (CMU), headed by the controversial Reneto Adams, was disbanded following allegations that it was "Jamaica's version of Dirty Harry".

[24] Mark Shields, then of Scotland Yard and later Deputy Police Commissioner of the JCF, was brought in from London to investigate; Adams was acquitted of shooting four people in an alleged extrajudicial execution.

[31] The officers involved in the killing were acquitted due to an inability to present the maker of the video for court to authenticate it for evidentiary purposes.