<\/p>\n
Minister of National Security and Peace, Dr Horace Chang, says that measures will be introduced to strengthen security at entertainment events and protect patrons.<\/b> <\/p>\n
Opening the 2026\/2027 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on April 21, he said that criminals will not be allowed to disrupt entertainment in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police will be meeting and instructing, especially for large events, the proper operations [that] must be put in place to protect the event. We\u2019re not stopping them,\u201d he said, emphasising that the proper safeguards must be put in place.<\/p>\n
He noted, for example, that it has been established that the Firearms Licensing Authority (FLA), which has armoured vehicles, must be a part of the cost for the staging of large events.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police will be there, too, because we are working jointly with the citizens and the police and other agencies to ensure there\u2019s peace and protection,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n
As it relates to the staging of smaller events, which have limited budgets, the Minister pointed out that it is not the policy of the police to stop these activities.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they (organisers) must also understand that a large part of the success of the police force is sheer intelligence, and we know when [criminals] are about to damage somebody\u2019s party. Sometimes we have to stop the [events]. We can\u2019t tell them but it is a fact of life and you have to understand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
– JIS News<\/p>\n
Follow The Gleaner on X and <\/b> Instagram<\/b> @JamaicaGleaner and on Facebook @GleanerJamaica. Send us a message on WhatsApp at 1-876-499-0169 or email us at onlinefeedback@gleanerjm.com or <\/b> editors@gleanerjm.com<\/b> .<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source jamaica-gleaner.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister of National Security and Peace, Dr Horace Chang, says that measures will be introduced to strengthen security at entertainment events and protect patrons. Opening the 2026\/2027 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on April 21, he said that criminals will not be allowed to disrupt entertainment in the country. \u201cThe police will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2385273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Security-to-be-strengthened-at-entertainment-events-News.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385274,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385272\/revisions\/2385274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2385273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}