Dionne Rose, Staff Reporter
WHILE MEMBERS of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were preparing to lay one of their fallen colleagues to rest, gunmen were again continuing with their marauding ways, killing another lawman early yesterday morning.
Dead is 35-year-old Constable Andrew Anthony Pryce of the Personnel Division of the JCF.
According to reports from the Constabulary Communications Network (CCN), at about 4:30 a.m. Constable Pryce was about to enter his car on Molynes Road, Kingston 10, when he was pounced upon by his attackers and shot.
The police were summoned and he was taken to the University Hospital of the West Indies, where he was pronounced dead.
It is believed that his attackers escaped with his firearm. The Half-Way Tree police are investigating. The CCN could not say whether Constable Pryce was on duty or why he was in that area at the time.
But according to unconfirmed reports, Constable Pryce had taken a young lady out and was dropping her home when he was attacked.
Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas, in a statement condemning the killing of Constable Pryce, urged his colleagues to continue to maintain a united front and get the guns and the criminals who are using them.
"We have to be our neighbour's keeper and be continuously vigilant to try and prevent attacks against the citizens. We cannot wait until crime directly affects our family or our friends to launch an all-out assault against the criminals," said Commissioner Thomas.
He said that even as the Force mourns the passing of its members, "We will continue to work assiduously to rid the country of the wayward few who are hell bent on destroying the social fabric of society."
