March 21 in Jamaican Police History
Here’s some humor from the Gleaner Archives for you March 21, 1928 – Detective Inspector L.R. O’Hanlon publishes a police notice that four fowls are at the detective office, East Queen Street, Kingston … awaiting owners.
March 9 in Jamaican Police History
March 9, 1951 – 24 year old Oswald Bennett appears before the Court. He is charged with striking a policeman with his fist and resisting arrest during an incident which occurred two days prior on March 7 – the policeman had told him to move on after leaving a concert. The woman that Bennett was [...]
November 27 in Jamaican Police History
November 27, 1971 – a police corporal attached to the Linstead Police Station in St. Catherine, flees from a church in St. Ann’s Bay, when his common-law-wife interrupts his wedding. He was about to be married to a clerk from the district of Bamboo. The common-law-wife claims that she is the mother of his two [...]
