By Nakinskie Robinson
Some 200 members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force have been deployed across the Quickstep area on the border of North East St. Elizabeth and Southern Trelawny to assist with lumber recovery efforts.
Under the operation, which started about 6 a.m. Monday, the JCF is providing security for a 40-member team from the Forestry Department that is retrieving pieces of wood that were cut during Friday's stand-off between the department and residents of Accompong in St. Elizabeth.
The operation has led the teams some seven miles into the forest area.
It is expected to last for a full day.
Officers from St. Elizabeth, Clarendon, Manchester and Kingston are assisting with the mission.
The security forces responded to a call for rescue on Saturday and managed to successfully escort eight workers from the Forestry Department out of the area on foot. The workers had been stranded for 24 hours.
A resident of the community told Radio Jamaica News that it was illegal operators who were challenging the authorities after the Forestry Department said they were seizing recently cut logs.
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