GARDNER
Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter
ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER of Police Keith Michael Gardner, the colourful former street cop who is also known as 'Trinity', has been called to the Jamaican Bar and is to begin operating out of the office of the director of public prosecutions (DPP) early next month.
A spokesperson for the General Legal Council in downtown Kingston confirmed Monday that ACP Gardner was called to the Jamaican Bar on November 25.
The Gleaner has been informed that the assistant commissioner is to be transferred to the DPP's office on secondment.
He will become the second attorney-at-law from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) who has been called to the Bar and transferred to the DPP's office.
Last year, Detective Inspector Gladys Brown Campbell, the first female officer to acquire a law degree in the JCF, was transferred to the DPP's office.
FEARLESS CRIME-FIGHTER
At present, the 52-year-old Gardner is the ACP in charge of operations at the commissioner's office in Kingston. He has served the JCF for more than 25 years, spending most of his time at the Criminal Investigative Bureau (CIB).
He is rated among the best and most fearless crime fighters the country has ever seen. Mr. Gardner, who was once the bodyguard of former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, during the turbulent period of the late 1970s and 1980s, was shot and injured on at least four occasions.
The ACP was among 22 officers who went to Nambia in April 1989 as part of a United Nations peacekeeping force.
The Gleaner has been advised that the likely candidate to fill his post is Senior Superintendent Owen Ellington, the officer at Area Four.
Assistant Commissioner Gilbert Kameka of Area 2 is expected to take over from SSP Ellington at Area Four.
