ANOTHER POLICEMAN was shot and injured on the weekend less than 24 hours after the murder of Police Constable Peter Nembhard. The Jamaica Police Federation issued a statement yesterday, calling for an end to attacks on police officers.
"We who have accepted this sacred trust to serve and protect citizens in Jamaica have human rights too," said Corporal Hartley Stewart, general secretary of the federation.
According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), a 26-year-old constable attached to the Mobile Reserve division in Kingston, is now in hospital after he was shot by one of two gunmen who attacked him on the Old Harbour Road in St. Catherine on Saturday night.
PASSENGER IN A TAXI
According to the report, the constable was attacked while he was a passenger in a taxi travelling towards May Pen, Clarendon, along the Old Harbour Road. On reaching Rhoden Pen, one of the gunmen who had been posing as a passenger pulled out a handgun and ordered the driver to stop. The gunman and his accomplice then got out of the car and demanded money from the driver. They then grabbed the constable's bag and shot him before escaping on foot. The constable is said to be in stable condition.
Late Friday night, 34-year-old Constable Nembhard, of the Special Anti-Crime Task Force (SACTF), was shot and killed by a group of gunmen as he approached his home in Passagefort, Portmore, St. Catherine. Another constable, Denton Davis, was stabbed in St. Thomas after he responded to a loud noise complaint in the Morant Bay Plaza. He was reported to be in stable condition.
The Police High Command is offering $1 million for information which leads to the arrest and conviction of Mr. Nembhard's killers.
"From the information available to us on the ground Constable Nembhard was killed because of the simple fact that he was a policeman. We are very concerned that Constable Davis was deliberately and blatantly attacked having properly carried out his duties as an officer of the law," said Corporal Stewart.
