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 23rd day of September 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 conducting vehicle stop and inspection along Church Pen in the parish of St. Catherine.  At about 11:10 am I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PL6695 coming toward my direction. I executed the number one signal to stop and pull over to which the driver complied. I approached the vehicle along with a Police officer. Graphics were present on the vehicle on the back wind screen the wording “GOD BLESS” and on the front bonnet the wording “Limited Edition”. 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 Keino Gayle of Lloyd’s Pen, Bushy Park, St. Catherine.
He was wearing a black Old Harbour Taxi Association Shirt and blue cut up jeans pants which was not the prescribed uniform he was to be wearing. The prescribed uniform consists of a cotton/polyester blend shirt of the Old Harbour Taxi Association and plain black or dark blue pants. Four adult passengers who were identified to be paying passengers were observed in the motor car and there was no off-duty/chartered sign.  
All documents received were found to be up to date. The graphics present on the motor vehicle were not authorized on his road licence. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences to include uniform, however discretion was used in regards to the uniform as he stated that he was not aware of the plain black or dark blue pants. I informed him that he would be prosecuted for unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics and unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint. I informed him that the graphics present on the motor vehicle were not authorized on his road licence and as a result they should not be on the motor car. 
I informed the driver that he should be in his Old Harbour Taxi Association shirt and plain black or dark blue pants. I also informed him that the tint should not be such that it prevented inward view according to the Transport Authority amendment regulations 2005. Summonses for the offences of unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics and unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint were prepared and served accordingly to appear before the Old Harbour Traffic Court on Friday November 10, 2023. The summons was read over to Mr. Gayle. He was also informed that only authorized graphics wording or markings are allowed on a PPV.  He accepted and left.
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October 27, 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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October 27, 2022