Three policemen accused of soliciting a bribe granted bail

Three St Catherine-based policemen who were arrested on corruption charges were each granted bail in the sum of $700,000 when they appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court on Friday. 

Corporal Stephen Peart and constables Morris Foster and Lariston Bogle are charged with solicitation of a bribe.

Senior parish court judge Yvette Wentworth-Miller ordered the men to report twice weekly to the police. 

It is alleged that on February 6, 2021, the policemen were on duty when they stopped a car for reported breaches of the larceny Act. 

The vehicle was taken to the Central Village Police Station in St Catherine where the complainant was reportedly told to 'do supn'.

The man reportedly gave the policemen $50,000.

A subsequent report was made to the police, which resulted in an investigation and a ruling from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on February 21 this year that the cops should be charged.

A forth policeman, who was reportedly involved  in the incident, is overseas after he resigned from the Jamaica Constabulary Force.

He is still being sought.

The matter is set to again be mentioned on April 26.

- Rasbert Turner

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