Might Pen, Clarendon — A police constable assigned to the Might Pen Police Station was ordered arrested by a Justice of the Peace on the Clarendon Parish Courtroom on Monday, after allegedly failing to seem for a number of court docket dates associated to a case she was investigating.
The officer, whose title has not been formally launched, reportedly arrived at court docket Monday morning, solely to be taken into custody on the spot by order of the resident Justice of the Peace. The court docket had reportedly grown annoyed together with her repeated absences from scheduled hearings.
The constable is the investigating officer in an ongoing case presently earlier than the court docket, and her presence was required to present proof. Judges have the authority to bind over such officers to make sure they seem in court docket when known as.
She was charged with non-appearance and subsequently granted bail within the sum of $80,000.
Her arrest has triggered discontent amongst colleagues on the Might Pen Police Station. A number of officers have reportedly expressed outrage, arguing that the court docket made no obvious try to contact the constable beforehand and that no warrant was issued previous to her arrest.
“That is very troubling,” one officer stated off the document. “There needs to be a course of. You’ll be able to’t simply arrest a fellow officer with out warning or protocol.”
There was no official assertion but from the Jamaica Constabulary Power or the Courtroom Administration Division, however authorized and procedural questions surrounding the arrest are anticipated to be examined within the coming days.
Extra particulars are anticipated to observe because the story develops.
