The Jamaica Constabulary Force, JCF is rejecting as false a rumour being spread on social media that Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, had sent an emissary to intervene in a dispute between Councillor Kari Douglas and some Police personnel who eventually charged Douglas.
Head of the JCF’s Corporate Communication Unit, CCU, Senior Superintendent Stephanie Lindsay says the rumour is false.
SSP Stephanie Lindsay, Head of the CCU.
Police reports say Councillor Douglas was arrested on the avenue which she lives and carried to the Constant Spring Police station.
She was charged with breaching the curfew order under the Disaster Risk Management Act which is intended to help limit the spread of the Coronavirus.
The Police alleged that the Councilor failed to identify herself satisfactorily.
But Councilor Douglas has strongly denied the allegation and pointed to an April 1 order which exempts Councilors and Mayors from prosecution for breaching the curfew.
Douglas says when she was accosted by the Police while she was on her way home shortly after she delivered care packages to the elderly in the Trafalgar Division which she represents in the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation, KSAMC.
The JLP Councillor says the Police moved to charge her despite her using her drivers license to identify herself.
The Councilor says a team of Police personnel insisted on charging her, despite the Chairman of the KSAMC, Mayor Delroy Williams, and a senior member of the Police force confirming to them that she’s a member of the Corporation who’s exempt under the law.
