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 Friday the 29th day of July 2022 I reported for duty at 6:00 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on an enforcement operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by fellow inspectors to include inspector S. Smith, 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 Paisley Avenue in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 9:20 am inspector S. Smith called my attention to a Toyota Probox registration number PJ0850 coming toward my direction. I executed the number one signal to stop and pull over to which he complied and we approached. I cautioned the driver, asked if he was operating to which he stated “yes,” and requested his vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence.  No Destination markings were on the front doors the vehicle also did not have any streak, association logo or fleet number. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Ezekiel Bent of Red Ground, Old Harbour, St. Catherine. 
He was dressed in the prescribed uniform he was to be wearing. Three adult passengers were observed in the motor car and there was no off-duty/chartered sign. I was able to identify the passengers as paying passengers by questioning them in the presence of the driver, they each stated that they paid fares of $150 JMD per person for their journeys. Two females stated that the driver picked them up at Avery and the male was picked up in the town of Old Harbour.
The driver produced all his documents except his driver’s badge. Based on questioning he did not have a driver’s badge. Based on the documents produced his road licence had been expired since March 31, 2021 and this was not renewed based on checks made to the licencing department at the Transport Authority. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offence and that he would be prosecuted for  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. I asked why the renewal was not done for the vehicle which would now be out. He stated “mi buy the vehicle from the lady and mi never get fi transfer out the documents yet that’s why.” I asked him if that was the case why he renewed all other documents in the name of Alma Bent, to which he gave no other response. The passengers were asked to exit the vehicle and take another transportation to their destination as the vehicle will be seized. The passengers asked the driver to refund their fares which the driver then did and they left.
I informed the driver that the vehicle will be seized. A wrecking service was called and a Summons was prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday September 28, 2022. The summons was read over to Mr. Bent and the proper steps towards renewing his road licence relayed.  He accepted and left.
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August 2, 2022
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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August 2, 2022