By Erica James-King, Staff ReporterWESTERN BUREAU:
CALM HAS returned to Flankers, prompting the pull-out of the Jamaica Constabulary and Defence Force personnel stationed there over the past four days.
Meantime, 21 persons from Flankers who were arrested and charged on Monday during confrontations with the police are to face the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court next Wednesday to answer to charges ranging from assault at common law, destruction of property, breaches of the Solid Waste Act and stone throwing.
Superintendent Newton Amos, commanding officer for the St. James Police Division, told The Gleaner on Wednesday that Police Commissioner Francis Forbes gave the directive for the security forces to be withdrawn, based on requests from some citizens and the absence of outbreaks of violence in the last 48 hours.
The St. James top cop, however, said that his department has a contingency plan in place to deal with any civil disturbance which might surface in the community.
"We will continue to maintain normal police patrols of the Flankers area and adjoining communities," Supt Amos told The Gleaner. "We will also have in place a system, just in case there is any further developments," he said.
