Shields

The Police High Command says it has now received crucial information on the case involving the 2004 abduction of two men allegedly by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) in the Corporate Area.

Deputy commissioner of police in charge of crime, Mark Shields, said given the status of the probe, he could not release the details, but yesterday sought to assure that the investigation was progressing well.

Shields said Operation King-fish was con-ducting the inquiry using the "latest technology".

The police reopened the three-year-old case in April following a three-part series carried in The Gleaner in February.

The Gleaner had reported that Kemar Walters, 20, and Oliver Duncan, 35, were abducted on December 23, 2004, by policemen involved in an islandwide car-theft ring, led by a notorious car thief based in Kitson Town, St Catherine.

Taken away

Walters, a mechanic apprentice, was handcuffed and placed in a motor car with the leader of the corrupt cops. Duncan, who had driven a Honda CR-V to the location and was awaiting young Walters to emerge from a store, was also handcuffed and placed in another vehicle, while another policeman drove the CR-V.

The vehicles left the scene together and turned on to Weymouth Drive, off Washington Boulevard.

In April, the JCF engaged two specialist homicide investigators from the United Kingdom (UK) to review the earlier probe conducted by local sleuths. The UK investi-gators made a second visit in July and briefed local police as well as the director of public prosecutions, Shields disclosed.