Four policemen in trouble

Two policemen are among three men charged with robbery with aggravation in Montego Bay last Friday.
This follows a ruling by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn.

In police custody are 31 year-old Constable Anthony Harris, Special Constable Itchream Shuriah, 28, both of the St. James Division and 25 year-old Gavin McNeil of Tucker in the parish.

The Constabulary Communications Network reported that about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 8, the three men allegedly held up and robbed two men of an undetermined sum of money and cell phones along Gloucester Avenue in the second city.

The police were alerted and they were apprehended. A file was subsequently submitted to the DPP who ruled that the men be charged.

In the meantime, the police in St. Elizabeth are awaiting a ruling from the DPP to determine their colleagues’ fate

Reports are that two policemen who are attached to the Black River Police Station in St. Elizabeth and were implicated in a robbery committed in the parish last December, are now in custody.

The policemen, ages 34 and 36 years, are a Corporal and a Constable respectively. Their identities were not released at press time.

Reports from the CCN state that, on Monday December 3 last year, the policemen allegedly held up and robbed a man of an undetermined sum of money in Lacovia District. The victim later reported the incident to the Black River Police. Following a probe by investigators from the Anti-Corruption Branch, the policemen were apprehended. They were fingered during an identification parade which was held in Black River last Saturday. A file will be submitted to the Director of Public Prosecutions for a ruling.