All four policemen have been suspended from duty.
Investigators assigned to the police’s Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau have arrested and charged four policemen for multiple offences in relation to separate incidents following rulings handed down by the Director of Public Prosecutions. They are Corporal Howard Richards, Corporal Andrew Tinker, Constable Headley Gray, and Constable Orlando Webster. The police explain that Richards, who is attached to the St Elizabeth Division, was charged with assault Occasioning bodily harm following a July 2012 incident. They report that Richards was on an operation when it is alleged that he assaulted an individual while making an arrest.
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Four members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have been suspended from duty after being arrested and charged with multiple offences in separate incidents, following rulings handed down by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
The four officers, who were charged by investigators from the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau, are Corporal Howard Richards, Corporal Andrew Tinker, Constable Headley Gray and Constable Orlando Webster, according to a release by the JCF s Corporate Communications Unit on Thursday.
Corporal Howard Richards of the St Elizabeth Division was charged with assault occasioning bodily harm following a July 2012 incident. Reports are that Richards was on an operation when it is alleged that he assaulted an individual while making an arrest. A report was filed and an investigation launched. He was arrested and charged on Tuesday, December 1, 2020.
Maurine Douglas has gone without food or sleep, having learnt that her son and best friend, who was due to migrate to be with her in the United States in January, was killed Saturday during an alleged confrontation with a policeman in Portmore.
The deceased man, Ricardo ‘Richie’ Douglas, was killed following a nine-night for a well-known shopkeeper along Keswick Way about 10:40 p.m.
Douglas’ cracking voice was evidence of her grief. She is struggling to compose herself before she flies to Jamaica this weekend.
She spoke of the daily video calls that compensated for the two years she and her son have been apart.
Glester White
Lerline Harris has been having an uneasy feeling for weeks, and on Sunday her worst fears were realised as her son, Glester Craige White, 43, was killed in their St D Acre, St Ann, district. I wasn t that frighten because I was looking forward to something to happen according to some visions that I got. In the vision, it was weeping and mourning so I know something would happen, she said. My pastor was also seeing some things and we prayed about it and thing. But Harris was still overcome with emotions when news reached her that her third born was struck down by bullets.