Police Owning & Operating Public-Transportation Vehicles
Letter to the Jamaica Gleaner editor – Saturday, June 27, 2009
From: A. Genius (aldrane.genius@gmail.com)
Re: Police owning & operating public-transportation vehicles
Dear Editor,
The practice of police personnel owning and operating public-transportation vehicles is cause for concern and is something that the relevant authorities need to look into very seriously. The practice is posing a conflict of interest [...]
Work Together With The Commissioner Of Police
Letter to the Jamaica Observer editor – Saturday, June 27, 2009
From: Donald Morgan (Washington DC, USA)
Re: Work Together With The Commissioner Of Police
Dear Editor,
It is ironic that the controversy over Adventist police working on Saturday should come so soon after the appointment of the former president of the West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, [...]
Albion Lane Residents Protest Police Killing
Residents of the Albion Lane community in Montego Bay, St. James, were out in numbers yesterday, protesting a shooting incident involving the police which left a 17-year-old youth and an alleged insane man dead. The youth was a student at the Cambridge High School, while the alleged insane man was identified as Dwayne Cole, a [...]
Special Constable Freed Of Beating Charge
A special constable, 46 year old Denton Davis, who was accused of beating a passenger on a minibus, was freed after the judge upheld a no-case submission by his defence lawyer.
Davis was freed after the judge agreed the defence lawyer’s submissions, that there were too many inconsistencies in the complainant’s evidence. The lawyer stated that [...]
Policeman Accidentally Shoots & Kills Girlfriend
A police constable from the Narcotics division reportedly accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend (identified as 29 year old Jacqueline Jobson) at approximately 7 a.m. this morning at his home in the Westchester community of Portmore, St. Catherine.
It has been reported that they were playing, when his service pistol went off and she was hit. [...]
