Amid strident criticisms from the political opposition...

Amid strident criticisms from the political opposition and human rights activists, Jamaican police chief Francis Forbes ordered a review of the controversial police unit tasked with fighting organized crime and political gangs.
The latest round of controversy over the Crime Management Unit (CMU) was sparked by the recent police killing of Andrew Stephens also called Andrew Phang, a political gang leader in a Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) stronghold in Grants Pen in Kingston's northern suburbs.
Several persons, claiming to be eyewitnesses, gave the media accounts of what they said was a police execution. The police insisted that Stephens was killed a shoot-out when they went to apprehend him on various warrants, including murder charges.
Criticism of the CMU had intensified with a number of controversial police shootings. The unit was involved in the March 17 killing of seven men at a house in Braeton, St Catherine a district about 21 kilometers south-west of this capital city. The Unit was also involved in the July 7 gun battles in Seaga's West Kingston constituency that left 27 people dead, including a policeman and a soldier.