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Two policemen, Corporal Sylvester Thaxter and Constable Kevin Whyte (both of the St. Elizabeth Police Division), appeared before the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate’s Court in St. Elizabeth yesterday, where they were convicted and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment at hard labour for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. The convictions and sentencing come exactly three [...]

A policeman who is facing corruption charges was granted $600,000 bail when he appeared in the Mandeville Resident’s Magistrate Court earlier today. The policeman is Constable Sherwin Swaby of the Manchester Police Division and is to report to the Mandeville Police Station three times per week. According to reports, Constable Swaby was arrested and charged [...]

Two Special Constables who were accused of accepting a bribe from a motorist, were freed when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Special Constables Dwayne Stewart and Dwight McCarthy had been charged with breaching the Corruption Prevention Act. It was alleged that at about 11 p.m. on June 4, 2004, a [...]

A special corporal from the St. Andrew South Division was arrested yesterday by members of the Anti-Corruption Branch, on reasonable suspicion of breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act. According to a release from the Jamaica Constabulary Force, a police-military task force carried out an operation in the Kingston 11 area yesterday, and took four men [...]

Constable Handel Bernard, of the Sligoville police station in St. Catherine, was freed of corruption charges when he appeared in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Constable Bernard was being retried, but when the case came before the court, only one witness turned up. Resident Magistrate Anmarie Nembhard then determined that Bernard should be [...]