Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
THREE WEEKS after accusations of physical assault on a woman in Half-Way Tree, St. Andrew, members of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) are in the news again.
The latest incident took place Monday afternoon, on Orange Street in downtown Kingston, where two plainclothes female members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were allegedly dragged from a private motor vehicle and beaten by a group of ISCF officers.
It is alleged that the woman sergeants in the car, accused of attempting to run over the ISCF officers, were then pulled over and the uniformed officers requested their car papers. It is alleged that the women were then beaten, handcuffed and later taken to the City Centre Police Station.
"It was a disgraceful confrontation. Reports are that one of the women sustained a broken finger while the other was punched in the face," commented a senior officer.
The Gleaner has learnt that the injured sergeants, who are attached to the Police Federation and the Vineyard Town Police Station, have since been sent on sick leave.
Commandant of the ISCF, Osmond Bromfield, has expressed confidence in the investigators at the Professional Standards Branch. He said, however, that he has since reassigned a sergeant who has received death threats since the incident.
