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INDECOM Commissioner Hugh Faulkner
The Police High Command says it's awaiting the findings from the investigation launched by INDECOM [Independent Commission of Investigations] arising from the shooting of two detainees and a policeman at Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay on Saturday evening.
Information received by Radio Jamaica News suggests there was a disturbance among detainees in the lock-up around 7:30. It's understood that police personnel went to the cellblock to defuse the situation.
One of the detainees involved in the dispute was reportedly removed from his cell in a bid to cool tempers, but that that he then gained access to a firearm left in a desk drawer on the cellblock, took it out and began firing it, wounding two of his fellow inmates and a police constable.
The policeman was grazed on the right arm, while the detainees sustained bullet wounds to the neck and legs.
Their wounds are not considered life threatening.
INDECOM Commissioner Hugh Faulkner told Radio Jamaica News that his team is still gathering information on the incident.
Members of the military and firefighters were deployed to the scene of the disturbance on Saturday evening.
The Major Investigation Division and the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau, are also investigating the incident.
The Police High Command has promised full transparency in the probe.
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