Ot­to Car­ring­ton

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.