A district constable was murdered on Friday night on Orange Street in Kingston.
He is 59-year-old District Constable Lloyd Robinson attached to the Hunts Bay Police Station.
Reports from the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN) are that at about 11 p.m. Mr. Robinson was travelling on a public passenger bus. When the vehicle stopped at a bus stop in the vicinity of Eze Lane, two gunmen who were aboard started robbing passengers.
It was reported that Mr. Robinson got off the bus and was accosted by the men who identified him as a policeman. They then shot him in the chest and left wrist.
He was taken to the Kingston Public Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, expressed "regret and sadness" at Mr. Robinson's death. He also called on "every citizen, to find it in his or her conscience to support and protect the police who are on the front line defending law and order."
