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 Wednesday the 14th day of June 2023 I reported for duty at 6:30 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on an intelligence driven roving operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by fellow inspectors acting covertly and in an unmarked vehicle. One team was tasked with the responsibility of gathering intelligence. The other team would be travelling in a marked service unit and accompanied by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force attached to the Transport Authority.  All members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were properly attired in their respective uniforms. My duties for the day entailed inspection of vehicles suspected of operating as PPV without the requisite documents to do so, based on information given by a covert team, to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations. 
Based on information received from team members to include K. Black who were travelling in the unmarked vehicle, the team was on the lookout for a Grey Honda Stream with registration number 1911KP that was seen setting down passengers, collecting fares, and soliciting passengers for the Thompson Town- Lennon (Mocho) route. About 9: 36am I observed the same motor vehicle described a grey Honda Stream with registration number 1911KP. The team began roving along Thompson Main Road beginning in the community of Smithville. Upon entering the Intersection of Smithville, Thompson Town and Victoria, the said vehicle was observed, the driver had all windows down, with his hand outside and whenever he saw a pedestrian (i.e. school children) he was heard tooting his horn and pointing in a downward direction to the direction of the Thompson Town and Lennon High Schools. He was observed stopping to pick up passengers at several intervals, these were children observed in uniforms of the Thompson Town Primary and High School and the Lennon High School. He continued to pick up and set down passengers along the route continuing on towards the Thompson Town Primary and High Schools intersection.
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September 19, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
Upon reaching the intersection, the vehicle then parked along the roadway and the driver exited along with students from the Thompson Town Primary and High School, who were passengers on board. They were seen giving the driver monies to include one hundred dollar notes. The vehicle was intercepted and the police officers on board exited and approached the vehicle along with myself and other inspectors. The driver was cautioned and his vehicle documents were requested to include: Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, and Drivers Licence. He produced all documents. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Shane Allison of 93 Anderson Street, Denbigh, Clarendon.
I relayed my observations to the driver, who admitted to illegally carrying passengers for hire, he however stated that the reason he did not apply was due to him not having the vehicle transferred into his name as yet. I advised the same driver that this does not make it okay for him to operate as a robot. four students from the Lennon High School were remaining in the motor car, they were questioned as well as the students from the Thompson Town Primary and High School. They confirmed they had handed monies over to the driver for separate fares for their journey one from the Smithville Community who paid $130 JMD and one from Cross Road who paid $100 JMD. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences of operating without a Road Licence in contravention of section 61 (1) & (4A) of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2005, Contrary to section 13 (2) (a) (v) of the Transport Authority (Amendment) Act 2005. No PPV insurance in Contravention of section 4 (1) of the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Risk) Law. He stated that he was indeed operating as a PPV and it was his intention to apply. A wrecking service was called and a warning notice was prepared and served on the driver. Information was given to him to include that he would be served summonses for the above mentioned offences and that he should visit the Swansea satellite office and pound between the hours of 8:30am and 3:00pm at his earliest convenience. The vehicle was taken to the Transport Authority Swansea Satellite office and Pound. 
 On Thursday the 15th of June 2023 at about 10:13 am Mr. Shane Allison visited the Swansea Satellite office. Summonses for Operating without a Road Licence and No PPV insurance that were prepared, were signed and sealed my Justice of the Peace and served on Mr. Allison by me to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday October 25, 2023. 
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September 19, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of ___ page(s) 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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September 19, 2023