WESTERN BUREAU – The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has ruled that no criminal charge should be laid against the Montego Bay constable who was suspected of having molested an 11 year-old Haitian refugee.

The DPP’s decision, according to a highly placed police source, was made on the basis of the results of a medical examination of the young boy.

“The medical report that was done showed that the boy was not sexually molested,” the police source told the Observer on Thursday.

Some time in June, the constable is alleged to have removed the boy from the Montpelier facility where he was being housed, to his own home. It was there, it was reported, that he sexually molested child.

Days later, head of the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) and an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Granville Gause was dispatched to Montego Bay to conduct investigations in the matter. The ACP collected a number of statements and the medical report and had dialogue with several police officials. He subsequently compiled a case file, which he submitted to the DPP’s office for a decision.

Now, while that office has decided not to have criminal charges proffered against the cop, he could still be charged at his department level since he removed the boy without the requisite approval.

“I am almost sure that he will be charged departmentally because he was not suppose to leave with the boy from the camp without permission,” said the police source.

In the wake of the June incident, security at the facility that housed over 300 “boat people” was beefed up.