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 Tuesday the 5th day of March 2024 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 properly 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 conducting vehicle stop and inspection along Council Street in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 12:18 pm I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PL2305 coming toward my direction. I executed the number one signal to stop and pull over to which the driver complied. I approached the vehicle along with a Police officer. Graphics were present on the vehicle on the wind screen the wording “ONE DON” and on the back the wording “NO BADA SIZE UP”. There was also an absence of the checkered strip and association logo on the vehicle. I cautioned the driver and requested his vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. From previous ineractions he was identified as Donavan Smith of New Longville, Clarendon.
He was wearing a red t-shirt and blue cut up jeans pants which was not the prescribed uniform he was to be wearing. The prescribed uniform consists of a short sleeve white, blue and cream cotton/polyester blend shirt with the logo of the May Pen Taxi Association affixed on the left breast pocket and plain black or dark blue pants. Three adult passengers who were identified to be paying passengers were observed in the motor car and there was no off-duty/chartered sign.  
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August 4, 2022
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
The driver did not produce his documents. Based on questioning he did not have a driver’s badge. The graphics present on the motor vehicle were not authorized on his road licence based on previous interaction. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences and that he would be prosecuted for failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 10b & 14(no logo, no streak) and unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint on the glass of a PPV. The driver upon hearing this drove off. Pictures were taken of the same motor vehicle.
At about 12:29pm whilst along Main Street, May Pen, the driver approached the police officers. I cautioned the driver and informed him that he would be prosecuted for the above offences. I again requested his vehicle documents to which he stated “mi don’t have dem.” I informed him that the checkered strip and logo were conditions on his road licence and as conditions, they must be present on the vehicle as long as he is the holder of a road licence. I informed him that the checkered strip is colour coded black and white	 so that it identifies that the vehicle is a route taxi and not a hackney carriage.I also informed him that the logo is to represent his taxi association. I pointed out these same conditions on the road licence to Mr. Smith. I informed him that the graphics present on the motor vehicle were not authorized on his road licence and as a result they should not be on the motor car. I made contact with the licencing department of the transport authority in his presence to verify it.
I informed the driver that he should be in his May Pen Taxi Association shirt and plain black or dark blue pants. I also 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 “tint affi deh pon vehicle.” Discretion was used and he was warned as it pertains to the offences of failure to produce documents to include driver’s licence. Summonses for the offences of failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 10b & 14(no logo, no streak) and unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint on the glass of a PPV. The summonses were prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday April 24, 2024. The summons was read over to Mr. Smith and the proper steps towards getting a badge relayed. He was also informed that only authorized graphics wording or markings are allowed on a PPV.  He accepted and left.
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March 14, 2024
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of two pages 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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March 14, 2024