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35 year old Constable Anthony Davey – formerly of the Waterford Police Station in Portmore, St. Catherine – who pleaded guilty to corruption charges two weeks ago, was sentenced yesterday in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court to nine months at hard labour.

The court heard that some time in July of 2009, Davey arrested the complainant for breaches of the Rent Restriction Act. After the complainant got bail, Davey reportedly made arrangements for the complainant to pay him $15,000 in order for the case to be dropped. The complainant made a report to the Anti-Corruption Branch, and Davey was arrested as he was collecting the money from the complainant during a sting operation that was set up at the Portmore Mall in St. Catherine.

Davey’s lawyer pleaded with the court not to impose a custodial sentence on his client, and asked the court to weigh in its consideration that the accused had been in custody since August last year.

However, Resident Magistrate Simone Wolfe-Reece, in handing down the sentence, said “As an officer of the law, you were entrusted to do good for the country. However, you abused that trust,” before handing down the nine month sentence.

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