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 17th day of January 2020 I reported for duty at 6:30 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 Ms. Roye.  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 conducting vehicle stop and inspection along Swansea Main Road in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 12:50 pm I observed a Brown Toyota Coaster Bus registration number PF7159 coming toward the direction in which I was standing. I executed the number one stop signal, the driver complied, and I approached the vehicle. There was no off duty/chartered sign affixed to the dashboard. I introduced myself and requested his vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Logbook, Badge and Drivers Licence. He complied, all documents were found to be up to date. 
I counted thirty-five adult passengers present in the vehicle excluding the driver.  I asked the passengers if they had paid fares and had been issued with tickets to which they replied yes. I also asked the driver who confirmed same. I cautioned the driver and pointed out the offence of Excess Passengers. I informed him that he would be charged. I showed him condition five on his road licence which stated the amount of passengers to be seated in the vehicle as twenty-eight excluding the driver, hence it was excess by seven passengers. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Linval Mclean of Southfield District, St. Elizabeth. A Summons was prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday May 27, 2020. The summons was read over to Mr. Mclean. He accepted and left.
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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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