JAMAICA’S DEPUTY police commissioner has said officers will keep surveillance on radical Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal, who was deported from Kenya to Jamaica on January 22 because of his “terrorist history.”

"We'll be doing everything to ensure the safety of Jamaicans will not be compromised," deputy police chief Glenmore Hinds told the Press Association.

El-Faisal, who was arrested in Kenya in December, arrived in Kingston late on January 22 and was escorted away by a local member of the Muslim community.

This was the second time he had been deported to the island. He was first jailed then deported from the UK in 2007 for encouraging Muslims to murder Jews and Hindus.

He had left Jamaica to preach in Africa before being arrested in Kenya, where the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has launched an investigation after a rally in Nairobi against El-Faisal’s deportation ended in riots.

The country previously tried to deport him to The Gambia but was forced to take him back when airlines in Nigeria refused to let him board his connecting flight, the BBC said.