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 14th day of January 2020 I reported for duty at 6:30 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. Roye.  All members of the Transport Authority and Jamaica Constabulary Force were appropriately 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 a stop and inspection operation along Paisley Avenue in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 7:43 am when I observed a White Toyota Probox registration number PF6115 coming toward the direction to which I was standing. I executed the number on signal to which the driver complied. I approached the said vehicle, introduced myself and requested the driver produce the vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. He complied, all documents were found to be up to date.  There was no off duty/chartered sign affixed to the dashboard. 
I observed that 5 adult passengers were present in the vehicle. The driver was also not in the prescribed uniform. He was wearing a white association shirt with a light blue jeans pants. 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/jeans. The driver was not wearing a badge. I cautioned the driver and pointed out the offences of Excess Passengers and failure to wear Badge and Uniform and informed him that he would be charged.
 I showed him condition four on his road licence which stated the number of passengers to be seated in the vehicle as four excluding the driver. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Sheldon Kerr of Nineteen Miles, Palmers Cross, Clarendon. 
 Summonses were prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday May 27, 2020. The summonses were read over to Mr. Kerr. He accepted and left. 
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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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