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 29th day of July 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 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 driving along Main Street, May Pen in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 3:10 pm I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PL1496. The driver was observed soliciting passengers for the May Pen to Old Harbour route. The service unit came to a stop and I exited the vehicle along with police officers assigned. No destination markings were present on the front doors of the motor car. There was also present on the back of the motor car the wordings “DJ War Hawk”. 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 Everton Reid of Sunrise Crescent, Four Paths, Clarendon.
The driver was not clad in his uniform he was clad in a brown shirt and grey 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. A total of 3 passengers who were identified as paying passengers were counted present inside the motor car.
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September 15, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
I informed the driver of the offences of Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics, wording, or markings on a vehicle without written approval of the Authority and failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. 
I informed Mr. Reid that he would be prosecuted for the offences of Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics, wording, or markings on a vehicle without written approval of the Authority and failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. I informed Mr. Reid that the destination of the vehicle being displayed was a requirement for all Public Passenger Vehicles as not having it on the said vehicle could be deemed as deceiving passengers as to the destination or route. I informed Mr. Reid that the graphics on the same vehicle was unauthorized based on his road licence, and that he would need approval from the authority for any such markings or wordings to be allowed on the motor car. I also informed Mr. Reid that he should be in his Taxi Association shirt and plain black or dark blue pants and that the fact that he was soliciting passengers for the Old Harbour route, it was considered operating contrary to his route which was May Pen to Race Course. He was warned to desist and that if he was seen operating outside of his route the vehicle would be seized. I informed him that I would be serving summonses on him for the aforementioned offences of the offences of Failure to wear uniform, failure to wear badge, unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics, wording, or markings on a vehicle without written approval of the Authority and failure to ensure that the destination of the vehicle are clearly and correctly displayed. 
The summonses were prepared, read over to Mr. Reid and served upon him to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday October 25, 2023 to answer for these same offences. Photographs were taken of the said motor car as well as Mr. Reid’s attire using a Samsung A72 smartphone, printed at the Transport Authority Swansea Satellite office, labelled as Everton Reid and attached to the file to be used as exhibit.
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September 15, 2023
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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September 15, 2023