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Three of the four police officers, who were responsible for the huge arms find at Munster Road off Mountain View Avenue on Thursday, were promoted yesterday – to reward them for the integrity they displayed when they apprehended several persons, including a police sergeant, and seized 19 guns and almost 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the early morning operation.

Two of them were constables, and they were promoted to corporal. A third was promoted from corporal to sergeant. The fourth member of the patrol was a district constable, and there are no ranks in this component of the force, so Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington has advised that they have found other appropriate means of recognition for that individual.

Acting Commissioner Ellington, who described the cops’ action as exemplary police work, said it showed that the arresting officers were among the finest in the ranks of the constabulary. He equated each bullet to a life of the membership of the constabulary. “In practical terms they may have saved a police force and the entire organisation, and I think the country and people of Jamaica owe them a debt of gratitude,” he said.

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