Name: Antoinette Thompson
Address: Swansea Satellite Office, Osbourne Store, Clarendon
Occupation: Route Inspector
Telephone #: 618-0959
Antoinette Thompson States,
I am a gazetted Route Inspector since November 1, 2019 employed to the Transport Authority and attached to the Swansea Satellite Office, Osbourne Store, Clarendon. My duties as an Inspector include the monitoring and regulating of public passenger vehicles and prosecuting for breaches of the relevant Road Traffic enactments. 
On Thursday the 16th day of February 2023 I reported for duty at 10:00 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on a summons operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by fellow inspectors, members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force attached to the Transport Authority and a Justice of the Peace for the parish of Clarendon.  All members of the Transport Authority and Jamaica Constabulary Force were appropriately attired in our respective uniforms. My duties for the day entailed Inspection of PPV’s documents and drivers to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations. 
I along with the team assigned were standing along Love Lane in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 4:51 pm when I observed a Grey Toyota Probox registration number PJ0488 coming toward the direction in which I was standing. An officer executed the number one signal for the driver to stop and he complied. I approached the said vehicle, introduced myself and requested the driver produce the vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. There was no off duty/chartered sign affixed to the dashboard of the said vehicle. The windows on the vehicle were heavily tinted which prevented inward view. The driver exited the vehicle and I observed he was not in uniform nor was he wearing his drivers badge, he was in a black sweater shirt and perforated jeans shorts. 
I cautioned the driver and again requested his documents, to which the driver only produced his driver’s licence.   I pointed out the offences of failure to produce road Licence, failure to produce Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, failure to produce fitness Certificate, failure to produce Insurance Certificate, unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint on the glass of a PPV and Failure to wear Uniform and Badge. I informed him that summonses will be prepared for the same offences. I informed him that the tint should not be such that it prevented inward view according to the Transport Authority amendment regulations 2005. The driver stated “how yuh waa charge mi fi badge and mi cant get nuh badge, mi is a trying yute, yuh know mi, mi neva diss yuh yet.” 
I used my discretion regarding the failure to wear driver’s badge offence and informed the driver of the steps to take in order to acquire a badge. Summonses were issued and prepared accordingly for all other offences  to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday April 26, 2023. These summonses were read over and served to Mr. Mellwood. He accepted and left. Pictures were taken and printed at the Transport Authority Swansea Satellite office where they were placed on file and labelled as Akeem Mellwod.
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February 27, 2023		
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of one page signed by me is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing if it is tendered into evidence. I shall be liable to prosecution if I have willfully stated into it anything which I know to be false or do not believe to be true. 
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February 27, 2023