By Glenroy Sinclair, Staffer Report
Det. Cons. Devon Pearson who has been missing since Thursday. - Contributed
AT PRESS time last night the police said they still had not found Det. Cons. Devon Pearson, 33, of the Greater Portmore police station, south St. Catherine, who has been missing since Thursday.
"The fact that his car was found with the keys in the ignition, it is difficult to speculate what might have happened," Det. Supt. Denver Frater of CIB Headquarters, East Queen Street, central Kingston, told The Gleaner yesterday.
The Caribbean Search Centre is assisting in the search which has been widened, Det. Supt. Frater said. The constable's black 1996 Bluebird car was found in the Caymanas Bay area of St. Catherine on Thursday.
"We are all sad; the office is not lively anymore," a detective at the Greater Portmore CIB, told The Gleaner yesterday.
Sergeant David White, chairman of the Jamaica Police Federation, said the federation stood ready to assist the family of Det. Cons. Pearson, as it relates to their welfare.
Pointing to Friday's incident in which two policemen were shot and wounded by a gunman at Claremont police station, St. Ann, and the fatal shooting on Saturday of a policeman in Spanish Town, central St. Catherine, Sgt. White said that if the nation allowed "these sorts of attacks by gunmen on law enforcement", then the country may soon be on the border of anarchy.
"It is time for the politicians to stop hug up criminals or the so-called community protectors, because this is a serious situation," said Sgt. White.
He said the police needed the intervention of social agencies to assist in the fight against crime.
