Two cops accused of selling a fake Jamaican passport to a foreigner were arrested on Thursday, bringing to six the number of cops who have been arrested for breaches of the Corruption Act this week.

The cops have been identified as Detective Sergeant Winston Pollack and Constable Tyrone Bryan.

According to a release from the Police Commissioner’s office, the two cops were arrested on reasonable suspicion of breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act and Conspiracy.

The police say the activities of the two cops were brought to their attention after a complainant, who operates a supermarket and wholesale in St Catherine, paid Pollack $115,000 to obtain a Jamaican passport illegally.

Pollack allegedly conspired with Bryan and both sought the services of a contact inside the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) to secure the passport.

The passport was eventually handed over to the complainant, who in turn tried to use it at the PICA to obtain a passport for his daughter.

However, immigration officials found the passport to be false and called in the police.

An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Branch led to the arrest of Pollack and Bryan. Both cops are now in custody and will be interviewed in the presence of their attorneys, the release said.

Thursday’s arrest was made on the same day that Corporal Paul Edwards, who was stationed at the Riversdale Police Station in St Catherine, was thrown behind bars at the New Horizon Remand Centre in Kingston after he turned himself in to cops at the Organised Crime Investigation Division.

Edwards and three others – an assistant superintendent and two constables – are being held in connection with the abduction and possible murder of Kemar Walters and Oliver Duncan. Walters and Duncan were abducted and carted away from the Washington Plaza in St Andrew by three men, one of them wearing a police vest, in December 2004.

A Honda CRV, which Walters was driving at the time of his abduction, was found two weeks later, completely burnt out in the mangroves on Port Royal Road.

Yesterday, the four cops underwent intense interrogation from investigators probing the four-and-a-half-year-old case.

On Tuesday, Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin recommended to the Police Service Commission that 10 cops who were assigned to the Mount Salem Police Station in St James be retired from the force in the public interest for their roles in the multi-million-dollar lotto scam.

Lewin made the recommendation after receiving a case file from Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn.

In the last 12 months, 300 rogue cops have been dumped from the force after they were found guilty and convicted of various acts of corruption.