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 Friday the 2nd day of September 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.  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 Manchester Avenue in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 10:18 am I observed a Toyota Probox registration number PL2305 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 wind screen the wording “ONE DON” and on the back the wording “NO BADA SIZE UP”. There was also an absence of the checkered strip 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 Donavan Smith of New Longville, Clarendon.
He was wearing a blue t-shirt and black cut up 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. Four adult passengers who were identified to be paying passengers were observed in the motor car and there was no off-duty/chartered sign.  
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August 4, 2022
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
The driver 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. The graphics present on the motor vehicle were not authorized on his road licence. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences and that he would be prosecuted for not wearing the prescribed uniform while operating a public passenger vehicle in contravention of Regulation 123 (a) Road Traffic Regulations 1938 in accordance with Section 13 (2) (c) of the Transport Authority Act 1987, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 14(no streak), unlawfully made or caused to be made graphics and unlawfully installing or causing to be installed tint. I informed him that the checkered strip were conditions on his road licence and as a condition they 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 black and white	 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. Smith. 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 May Pen 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. Discretion was used and he was warned as it pertains to the offence of failure wear driver’s badge. Summonses for the offences of not wearing the prescribed uniform while operating a public passenger vehicle in contravention of Regulation 123 (a) Road Traffic Regulations 1938 in accordance with Section 13 (2) (c) of the Transport Authority Act 1987, Operating contrary to the terms and conditions of his road licence condition 14(no streak), 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 May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday November 23, 2022. The summons was read over to Mr. Smith and the proper steps towards getting a badge relayed. He was also informed that only authorized graphics wording or markings are allowed on a PPV.  He accepted and left.
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September 9, 2022
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 9, 2022