Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has given a commitment that measures will be implemented to curtail the country's high murder rate.

Last week the Parliamentary opposition gave General Anderson an ultimatum to get crime under control in the next 60 days or resign.

General Anderson says the crime rate has been trending down, however he concedes that murders have been posing a challenge.

He says strategies are being employed to address that problem.

“So we are dong everything we can and we are building a force with more capacity, we are doing some other things right now to become more agile. We are recovering the guns, our intelligence is working - we are getting all major crimes down and we will get murders down also.” 

The Commissioner also said that the the Jamaica Constabulary Force, JCF, continues to be hampered by a lack of adequate resources and these are further interrupted by the pandemic.

He added that there is also a need for greater focus on funding for the JCF. 

‘There has been low investment in the JCF for decades. A building doesn’t run down to ruins in a day. What would be good, is a combined focus on the gunmen and a combined agreement on how to fund the force, to become that force that we want,” the Commissioner said.