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 Monday the 31st day of October 2022 I reported for duty at 6:00 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 Trout Hall Main Road in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 2:02 pm I observed a Toyota Noah registration number PK7856 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. No destination markings were present on the front doors of the motor car. There was also an absence of the checkered strip, taxi globe and the 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. He produced all documents except for his driver’s badge. From his driver’s licence he was identified as Gary Osbourne of Water Works District, Frankfield, Clarendon.
The driver was not clad in his uniform he was clad in a green shirt and dark blue 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. There was no off-duty/chartered sign affixed to the dashboard of the vehicle. 
I informed the driver of the offences of  Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition  10, 13 and 14(no logo, no taxi globe and no  streak), failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. Four passengers were present in the motor car who were identified to be paying passengers who had chartered the driver to take them from Chapelton to Frankfield.
I informed Mr. Osbourne that he would be prosecuted for the offences of Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition  10, 13 and 14(no logo, no taxi globe and no  streak), failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. 
I informed Mr. Osbourne 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 pointed out to him that his destination of May Pen to Pennants was a requirement.
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November 10, 2022
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
I also informed Mr. Osbourne that he should be in his Taxi Association shirt and plain black or dark blue pants. I informed him that because this was not the first instance he was spoken to about these same offences I would be serving summonses on him for the aforementioned offences of Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 10, 13 and 14(no logo, no taxi globe and no streak), failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. 
The summonses were prepared, read over to Mr. Osbourne and served upon him to appear before the Frankfield Traffic Court on Tuesday January 17, 2023 to answer for these same offences. Photographs were taken of the said motor car as well as Mr. Osbourne’s attire using a Samsung A72 smartphone, printed at the Transport Authority Swansea Satellite office, labelled as Gary Osbourne 1 and Gary Osbourne 2, and attached to the file to be used as exhibit.
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November 10, 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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November 10, 2022