Corporal Lawrence Clayton, a member of the Organised Crime Investigative Division, will face two counts of assault and false imprisonment when he appears in the Corporate Area Criminal Court tomorrow.

He is now in police custody, according to the Constabulary Communication Network. Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry ruled that the cop be charged in connection with last year’s disappearance of two men.

Kemar “Tall Boy” Walters, a 20 year-old from Kitson Town in St Catherine, and Oliver Duncan from Olympic Way in Kingston have not been seen since December 23 when they were allegedly taken away from a plaza along Washington Boulevard.

Persons claiming to be eyewitnesses alleged that Walters and Duncan were handcuffed by two cops and whisked away in an unmarked police car. A third cop is said to have driven away a Honda CRV which Duncan was driving and in which Walters was a passenger.

A burnt-out shell of the Honda CRV was found on the grounds of Fort Rocky, on the Port Royal main road three weeks ago, with its chassis number partially erased. The three lawmen were arrested and removed from front-line duty.

On January 10 former police chief Francis Forbes asked the British-based policing agency Scotland Yard to assist in the investigations.

Last week, persons who claimed to be eyewitnesses to the men’s abduction failed to point out two of the cops during an identification parade at the Kingston Central Police Station. The file was then sent to the DPP for a ruling.

The case is being closely watched as the police force wrestles with an image that has been tarnished by allegations of the use of excessive force and corruption.

So too is the case of 32 year-old cabbie Leonard “Junior” Jackson, whose relatives claim he had a fist fight with a lawman shortly before he went missing and was found dead.

Jackson, who was from Clairmont Heights in St Catherine, was found dead in bushes along the Banana Hole main road in St Catherine on January 10. The Bureau of Special Investigations is now probing his death.