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 16th day of August 2022 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 Mrs. D. Staines-Grant.  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 4:03 pm I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PH6534 the vehicle was parked and the driver was observed soliciting passengers for the Old Harbour route. I called it to the attention of my team members and the service unit came to a stop. I approached the vehicle along with a Police officer. Destination markings for May Pen to Old Harbour route were present on the front doors. There was also an absence of the checkered strip on the vehicle. The vehicle was heavily tinted in such a manner that it prevented inward view. There were also graphics present 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. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Lincoln Edwards of Mount Airy District, Whitney, Clarendon.
He was wearing his prescribed uniform. Three adult passengers who were identified to be a paying passenger was observed in the motor car and there was no off-duty/chartered sign.  
He produced all his documents except his driver’s badge. Based on questioning he did not have a driver’s badge. All documents received were found to be up to date. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences and that he would be prosecuted for not wearing Badge while operating a public passenger vehicle, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 14(no streak) and unlawfully installing tint on a PPV. I informed him that the checkered strip was a condition on his road licence and as a condition it 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 so that it identifies that the vehicle is a route taxi and not a hackney carriage. I pointed out these same conditions on the road licence to Mr. Edwards.  I informed him that the tint should not be such that it prevented inward view according to the Transport Authority amendment regulations 2005.
Discretion was used pertaining to the graphics offence and the driver given the opportunity to remove same. Summonses were prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday October 26, 2022. The summons was read over to Mr. Edwards and the proper steps towards getting a badge relayed.  He accepted and left.
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August 17, 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 17, 2022