THE Anti-Corruption Division of the police’s Professional Standards Branch (PSB) has issued a list of services offered by the police which citizens should not pay for, as part of its ongoing campaign to stamp out corruption within the constabulary.

The police, the PSB said, are not to collect for:

. burial orders;

. passport forms;

. certification of documents;

. firearm investigation and issuance;

. funeral procession escort;

. fingerprints;

. spirit licences;

. permits for events such as dance parties; and

. accident reports.

According to Assistant Commissioner Novelette Grant, head of the PSB, the issuing of the list was part of an ongoing education campaign that was launched last year. This particular advisory, she added, is aimed at sensitising the public that the police should not be paid for any of these services offered to citizens. However, she declined to say whether police officers have been caught charging citizens for the services on the list.

At the same time, head of the Corporate Affairs Division of the PSB, Superintendent Lorna Wilson, said that since the establishment of the Anti-Corruption Division of the PSB on June 1, last year, 33 members of the JCF have been arrested for acts of corruption, or involvement in criminal activity.

Wilson said that of these cases, there have been several convictions, while others are pending in the courts. The division’s ability to nab corrupt cops, she said, was boosted by the fact that Jamaicans were more willing to report them.