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Minister of National Security, Senator Dwight Nelson, says his ministry is to focus on the high volume of traffic tickets that are being voided by members of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) in an effort to save the Government much needed revenue.

In a message to the Special Constabulary Force Association's 25th Annual Joint Central Conferences in Ocho Rios, read by Permanent Secretary Major Richard Reese, Nelson said tickets that are voided is costing the government money.

According to Nelson, if the tickets are not properly prepared they are not effective.

Nelson said 42 per cent of the revenue generated by traffic fines go towards the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and last year this amount represented "only $200 million".

This money, he said, goes towards motor vehicles, station repairs, purchasing bulletproof vests and other necessities for the force.

Meanwhile, chairman of the Special Constables Force Association, Special Sergeant St George Jackson, is calling for an end to the evaluation of members of the ISCF based on the number of traffic tickets they issue.

Jackson, who was addressing the Association's 25th Annual Joint Central Conferences at Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios, later told The Gleaner that a more comprehensive assessment procedure should be adopted.

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"All I'm asking for is a component for compliance on the system of evaluation because it cannot be that you evaluate a person on the number of tickets that you issue rather than the prosecution in relation to those issued, those that are effective and those that are properly issued, and when the supervision is done it was justifiably given. Those are parameters of evaluation that I'm requiring, as well as other components and not just the aspect of traffic tickets," Jackson said.