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 3rd day of August 2022 I reported for duty at 8:00 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 Ms. Marshall.  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 Free Town in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 11:35 am I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PM0139 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. Destination markings for the May Pen – Old Harbour route were present on the front doors. The windows on the vehicle were heavily tinted which prevented inward view. There was also an absence of the checkered strip 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 his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Shamir Brown of Cockpit, Free Town, Clarendon.
The driver was not clad in his uniform. Two adult passengers who were identified to be a paying passenger was 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
He did not produce his insurance certificate, nor his motor vehicle registration certificate to me, nor his drivers badge. Based on questioning he did not have a driver’s badge. All documents received were found to be up to date. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences and that he would be prosecuted for failure to produce insurance certificate, failure to produce motor vehicle registration certificate, unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint on a PPV, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 14(no streak). I informed him that the checkered strip was a condition on his road licence and as a condition it 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 so that it identifies that the vehicle is a route taxi and not a hackney carriage. I pointed out this same condition on the road licence to Mr. Brown
I informed him that the tint should not be such that it prevented inward view according to the Transport Authority amendment regulations 2005. I also informed him that he should be in his May Pen Taxi Association shirt and plain black or dark blue pants. Discretion was used and he was warned as it pertains to the offence of failure to wear uniform and Badge. Summonses were prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday October 26, 2022. The summonses were read over to Mr. Brown and the proper steps towards getting a badge relayed.  He accepted and left.
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August 4, 2022
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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August 4, 2022