Windscreen wipers being removed from Corporate Area streets
ST ANDREW, Jamaica – Operations have begun at major intersections across the Corporate Area, to remove the young men who wipe windscreens.
Reports from the St Andrew South police are that about 7:30 am yesterday, officers apprehended 19 men at Portia Simpson Miller Square. In the process, the lawmen allegedly seized two knives.
Additionally, police from the St Andrew Central Division picked up 16 people, including two boys, in the Half-Way-Tree area.
The police say the people were picked up at the intersections of Maxfield Avenue and Hagley Park Road, Hope Road, Waterloo and Trafalgar Road, Hope Road, Barbican Road and Old Hope Road.
The men were charged for breaches of the Main Road Act and will appear Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court tomorrow, the police say.
According to the police, the two boys were charged with child in need of care and protection and are scheduled to appear in the Family Court on August 24 along with their mothers, who have been charged for negligence.
The police say that these operations are part of a wider operational strategy to restore and maintain public order.
