Police are this morning maintaining a strong presence in the East Kingston area, following a shoot-out with gunmen a few hours ago.
Head of the division Superintendent of Police Arthur Brown is reporting that at about 7:30 am, police were travelling in the area close to Tower Street when they were confronted by three men carrying high-powered weapons.
”The men opened fire at the police team, the fire was returned, but the men managed to escape from the area,” he said.
The incident this morning triggered shock among residents.
Police are at this time carrying out a search in the area in an effort to locate the men.
Kimmo Matthews
Aye sah. I only hope the govt is equipping with police with sophisticated weapons. Dem brite een, bout dem a engage di police.
They don’t need anything more sophisticated that police dogs, which the Jamaican police don’t seem to have. Can never understand how the police are never able to quickly converge on an area and surround it so that the bad guys cannot escape. How can these guys walk around in board daylight with a large assault rifle/high-powered weapons and no one call the police?
Well, dem can walk around with those high powered weapons because of “informa muss dead” culture, folks fraid fi talk. Some a di deep criminals have police on their payroll. Yes, I concur they do need a k-9 unit. Also, I am not sure how sophisticated and relevant to the times the training is at the police academy these days. It always seem like the police is lagging one step behind.
Buoy dis sound like the wild west.,dem nah go have no respect fi authority when they deems elf corrupt. Who knows what happen here. Who defending who or what.