FALMOUTH, Trelawny:
PERSONNEL AT the Ulster Spring Police Station have been transferred to the Ulster Spring Community Hospital, which is to be used as a temporary shelter until the station is rebuilt. The police station was demolished because of its deplorable condition.
Member of Parliament for the area, Doreen Chen, said the police should be housed in the hospital for about 10 weeks as the new station is expected to be completed within that time.
Ms. Chen said that although the health facility was referred to as a hospital it was actually a clinic as there was no residential patient. She said the building actually housing the police was not being used, that it was the furthest structure from the clinic, and was just a few paces from the original police station, which has been serving the area for many years.
She appealed for understanding in the interim as it was either that measure or the relocation of the men to another station, leaving that and the other communities which this station serves, without a police station.
In the meanwhile, commanding officer for the Trelawny police, Superintendent Jasmine Tomlinson-Brown, said that although the hospital is not ideal, security was not compromised as the necessary mechanisms required for policing have been put in place at the temporary location.
