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Friday, July 25, 2025

Alexander: Investigation will provide justice

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Otto Carrington
1851 days ago
20200629
Inspector Roger Alexander speaks to residents of Second Caledonia, Morvant during their protest yesterday over the police shootings in the area on Saturday.

Inspector Roger Alexander speaks to residents of Second Caledonia, Morvant during their protest yesterday over the police shootings in the area on Saturday.

KERWIN PIERRE

Po­lice In­spec­tor Roger Alexan­der has promised res­i­dents of Mor­vant that jus­tice will be served and that they will be giv­en a full ac­count of what tran­spired with the shoot­ing deaths of three men in Sec­ond Cale­do­nia on Sat­ur­day.

“I just came from a meet­ing and I want each and every per­son here and fam­i­ly mem­bers here; that jus­tice will not on­ly be served but you all will have a to­tal ac­count as to what took place on Sat­ur­day,” In­spec­tor Alexan­der told protest­ing res­i­dents yes­ter­day.

Alexan­der said he knew the men per­son­al­ly.

“I know Di­a­mond, I know Joel and I know the oth­er man, so if the po­lice of Mor­vant was present we would have been able to iden­ti­fy these per­sons not so? But if you are mak­ing these al­le­ga­tions it will be dealt with ac­cord­ing,” he said.

The po­lice shoot­ings claimed the lives of Is­rael Clin­ton, 27, Noel Di­a­mond, 44, and Joel Ja­cob, 43.

Alexan­der de­nied re­ports that were cir­cu­lat­ing yes­ter­day, that he was on the scene of the shoot­ing.

He ex­plained that Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith and the ex­ec­u­tive have launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter, adding that those who have in­for­ma­tion and are wit­ness­es should come for­ward and give in­for­ma­tion to the Po­lice Ser­vice.

While the res­i­dents were protest­ing, of­fi­cers from the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty and Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau were al­so con­duct­ing their in­quiries.

In­spec­tor Alexan­der ex­plained the CCTV video of the shoot­ing is part of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Af­ter Alexan­der ad­dressed the res­i­dents, protests con­tin­ued as some res­i­dents blocked roads with burn­ing de­bris and some went even fur­ther to block parts of the East­ern Main Road in the vicin­i­ty of the Mor­vant Junc­tion.

Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that word of the of­fi­cers be­ing placed on sus­pen­sion was not true.

“The of­fi­cers have not been placed on sus­pen­sion and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing. The Po­lice Ser­vice pur­chased 180 body cam­eras and I am not sure if the of­fi­cers had them on or were is­sued as the ser­vice is ex­pect­ed to pro­cure more.”

The Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice said the ve­hi­cles at the scene had dash­cams, but not­ed that the ve­hi­cles were fac­ing in the op­po­site di­rec­tion to the in­ci­dent.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion is be­ing head­ed by the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty and Pro­fes­sion­al Bu­reau Stan­dards.


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