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INDECOM to question cop over alleged chucking of man over wall

Published:Saturday | September 17, 2022 | 12:10 AM
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Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division. A member of the police’s forensic unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Winter wa
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Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division. A member of the police’s forensic unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Winter was rushed to hospital for medical attention afterwards by the police.
Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division. A member of the police’s forensics unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Winter w
Ian Allen/Photographer
Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division. A member of the police’s forensics unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Winter was rushed to hospital for medical attention afterwards by the police.
Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division (left). A member of the police’s forensic unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Wi
Ian Allen/Photographer
Garfield Winter, a resident of Walkers Hill in Red Hills, St Andrew, falls over a wall after allegedly being pushed by a cop from the St Andrew North Police Division (left). A member of the police’s forensic unit tried to prevent the man from falling. Winter was rushed to hospital for medical attention afterwards by the police.
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The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into an incident where a police officer allegedly pushed a man from a wall in Red Hills, St Andrew, on Friday.

INDECOM Assistant Commissioner Hamish Campbell told The Gleaner that the police officer implicated has been identified.

“We are informed of the matter through the media, and we have launched an inquiry, and one of our team is liaising with the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) to get the full facts,” he said, adding that the cop is to be interviewed.

Superintendent Shericka Service, head of the St Andrew North Police Division, informed The Gleaner that the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau is also conducting an investigation into the matter.

Residents say that an argument developed between the man, Garfield Winter, who is of a Red Hills address, and the policeman over an incident in the area on Friday morning.

Police investigators were called to the community after a man said to be of an unsound mind chased a group of people along Red Hills Road and managed to inflict chop wounds on three of them.

Seventy-four-year-old mason Phillip Bennett died as a result of the injuries he sustained.

Residents allege that during the incident, the cop pushed the man from a wall.

The injured man was taken to the hospital by police officers on the scene.