Rayon Dyer, Gleaner Writer
BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth:
LESS THAN two weeks after the holding cells at the Black River Police Station in St. Elizabeth were closed for emergency repairs, work to restore the facility started on January 1.
Raymond Facey, acting deputy superintendent in charge of administration, told The Gleaner in an interview last Wednesday, that the electrical rewiring of the cells was the first aspect of the work that was being done.
WORK BEING DONE
He said that workmen were in the process of doing repairs on the perimeter fence on the station compound. The repair project is being administered by the projects branch in the Ministry of National Security, and the work is being carried out by Brighton Engineering Company.
"All the existing grilled doors on the cells will be removed and the doors to replace them are being made elsewhere in the parish. The work is progressing quite well and we are expecting to have things back to normal at the facility shortly," the acting deputy superintendent said.
In late December, the head of the St. Elizabeth police division took the decision to close the lock-up because of the deteriorated conditions of the cells at the Black River facility. All the prisoners who were housed at the station were dispatched to other facilities across the parish.
When asked at what cost the badly run-down cells were being repaired, ADS Facey said he was not privy to that information.
