'Blue seam' cops again!
May 31, 2006
TWO female police sergeants in plainclothes were Monday beaten by a group of special constables in downtown Kingston, resulting in one suffering a broken finger.
The women cops, who were handcuffed and taken to the nearby City Centre Police Station where they were detained, were later released without charge after they were identified as police.
A police source said the incident, which comes on the heels of the beating of a woman in Half-Way-Tree by members of the Island Special Constabulary (ISCF), has angered both the Police High Command and the leadership of the ISCF.
The police reported that at about 5:30 pm Monday, the two women sergeants - one an administrative officer at the Jamaica Police Federation and the other from the Kingston East Division - were driving in an unmarked police vehicle.
They stopped along King Street to allow about 14 special constables to cross the street. One of the constables accused the driver of "almost bouncing him with the vehicle".
The constable, the police report said, demanded the documents for the vehicle and held on to the driver. The other woman came out of the vehicle and said they were police officers and began to use her cell phone. The constable grabbed the phone from the sergeant, allegedly punched her in the mouth, handcuffed her and hauled her off to the police station, saying he would be charging her with impersonating the police.
A police source said the constables refused to release the handcuff and a Police Federation executive member, who was called to the scene, used his key to open the handcuff, but one of the special constables allegedly drew his service revolver at the federation officer. It was on the insistence of the federation executive that the two sergeants were released without charge....
Author: T K Whyte
Source: Jamaica Observer
