Another cop was apprehended at Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew JA
Another cop has been arrested at the Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew. The second one in a month.
… According to Superintendent Kirk Ricketts, commanding officer for the St Andrew South Police Division, the police corporal was apprehended by other police personnel “around allegations of corruption”.
His identity has not been released, but he was recently reassigned from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch to act as head of the traffic unit at Hunts Bay Police Station, Ricketts confirmed.
It is unclear if the surprise arrest was carried out by police personnel from the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency or the JCF’s Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau.
“I have not been fully briefed as yet, but I know that the person was picked up around allegations of corruption,” Ricketts told reporters yesterday.
The arrest is yet another black eye for the St Andrew South Police Division, which, historically, has been one of the most violent regions in the country.
Exactly one month ago, police Constable Tafari Silvera, dressed in full uniform, was arrested at the Hunts Bay Police Station in front of stunned colleagues for allegedly contracting three men to kill another man in Clarendon.
Silvera and two civilians, Christopher Robinson and Mark Bennett, were later charged with conspiracy to murder following a ruling by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
In December 2019, reported exclusively that a detective inspector of police, who was also assigned to the St Andrew South Division, was allowed to resign without facing criminal charges.
His resignation came months after he allegedly tipped off a gangster about a plan devised by the Jamaican police, with assistance from the United States, British, and Canadian law enforcement authorities, to apprehend him.
According to multiple law-enforcement sources, he narrowly escaped a sting operation, set up with assistance from the gangster, to catch him in the act of collecting a $300,000 payment for his “help”.
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