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.
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Dexter Lodge, a farmer of Red Ground in St Elizabeth, was on Thursday, December 10, sentenced in the St Elizabeth Parish Court to two years in prison, suspended for two years by Parish Judge Ann Marie Granger.
In her summation, the judge outlined that Lodge’s action was frowned upon by the court, but there were mitigating circumstances which were considered in imposing the sentence, one of which was the fact that the accused had pleaded guilty in the first instance.
The allegations were that on May 30, 2017, another person successfully sat a written driver’s licence examination at the Spanish Town Road Examination Depot in St Andrew in Lodge’s name. This led to the issuance of a driver’s licence by Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) in the name of Dexter Anthony Lodge. The licence bore Lodge’s image.