Inspector Charley Lewis (right) shows National Security Minister, Dr. Peter Phillips, a car which was shot up by gunmen when they attacked the Cross Roads Police Station early yesterday morning. - RICARDO MAKYN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER of Police, Mark Shields, says evidence points to gunmen from West Kingston as being behind the murders of three policemen and a security guard in incidents that took place within a nine-hour span.
He vowed that the police will be making an all-out effort to bring the murderers to justice.
Deputy Commissioner Shields told The Gleaner that police intelligence has fingered criminals from the enclave for the murders of three policemen and security guard Richard Adams.
"We have sufficient information and intelligence to suggest that all of the killings derived from West Kingston, that's what we believe and the intelligence is overwhelming," he said. "We know who some of them are already and we will establish who the rest are and we will bring them to justice."
Deputy Commissioner Shields stressed that the JCF will not be launching a "major onslaught" on West Kingston which was the scene of controversial invasions by security forces in 1997 and 2001. Rather, he said, squads will conduct thorough searches of the area.
"There will be road checks, intelligence-led searches of premises and we will work over a longer period of time. It is not our intention to disrupt the lives of everyone in western Kingston, we will focus our activities on those people who are trying to ruin this country," he explained.
The British officer, who is on secondment from Scotland Yard, also said that the JCF will be clamping down on delinquent motorcyclists. Bike-riders figured in the murders of Constable Chandler and Inspector Walsh.
"Our focus will be on the criminal use of bikes but that this will mean that people will have to obey the law. They will have to have insurance documents, they will have to have driving licenses and most of all they will wear crash helmets," he said. "If they don't wear crash helmets they will be issued with tickets and if their bikes are not roadworthy they will be taken away from them."
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