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 Saturday the 17th day of June 2023 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.  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 driving along Main Street, May Pen in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 10:19 am when I observed a White Toyota Probox registration number 8089GU parked along the thoroughfare soliciting passengers for the Springfield route. The service unit came to a stop and I along with a Police officer exited the vehicle.  We approached the said vehicle, I introduced myself, cautioned the driver and asked if he was operating as a Public Passenger Vehicle, to which he responded “yes.” I then requested he produce the vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. The vehicle had all the requisite markings identifying it to be a PPV to include: a taxi globe affixed to the roof, checkered streaks on both sides, a parish code, an association logo and a fleet number. There was no off duty/chartered sign affixed to the dashboard of the said vehicle. The driver was also clad in the uniform for the May Pen Taxi Association. The driver responded that he did not have all the vehicle documents for the said vehicle. He also stated that he was to pick up the road licence for the same vehicle at the taxi association on Monday. He however produced his driver’s licence a road licence certificate and a plate receipt for the red plate number PJ7711and a PPV insurance which identified him as John Edwards of Baptist Street, Hayes, Clarendon. Checks were made using the Transport Authority’s Road Operation Management System which revealed that a Road Licence was indeed printed ad delivered to the taxi association for the plate number and owner information given by the same driver.
I pointed out the offences of failure to produce road Licence, failure to produce Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate and failure to produce fitness Certificate. I informed him that summonses will be prepared for the same offences. 
Summonses were issued and prepared accordingly for all other offences to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday September 27, 2023. These summonses were read over and served to Mr. Edwards. He accepted and left.
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June 20, 2023		
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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June 20, 2023