Two Policemen Being Investigated For Role In Botched Kidnap/Robbery Attempt
A police constable has reportedly been arrested and is currently being interviewed by investigators from the St. James Police Division following a botched kidnap/robbery attempt yesterday in Catherine Hall, St. James. The police say the constable was arrested minutes after the kidnap/robbery took place. A second policeman (Detective Constable Derron Nish), who was named as [...]
Policeman Charged With Attempted Rape
In April we reported that a policeman attached to the Constant Spring Police Station was being investigated for an alleged attempted rape of a woman that he was transporting from a wake. The policeman (a constable), was reportedly arrested and charged last week, after the case file was sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, [...]
Report Police Atrocities To The Public Defender
Jamaica’s Public Defender, Earl Witter, is advising persons who have witnessed or experienced police excesses or atrocities to contact his office by calling 922-7109 or 922-8256. The Office of the Public Defender is an independent commission of Jamaica’s Parliament, that’s mandated to investigated governmental maladministration and to protect and enforce constitutional rights, and in particular, [...]
Harold Crooks Held In Ocho Rios
Harold Crooks, former commandant of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), who was believed to have fled Jamaica recently in the midst of a child sexual assault investigation, was arrested at the Ocho Rios pier in St. Ann early this morning, and is now in police custody. According to the police, the cruise ship had [...]
Policeman To Face Criminal Charges For Armadale Incident
Constable Lawrence Burrell, the policeman who was blamed for starting the fire that killed seven of 23 girls who were packed into a small dorm at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in St. Ann last year, is to face the St Ann’s Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court on April 30. According to a release from the [...]