KINGSTON, Jamaica — The criminal charges against Deputy Superintendent of Police Jason Anderson were last Friday dropped when the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions intervened after reviewing files associated with his case.

Read: MOCA cop charged for unlawfully discharging firearmAnderson, a deputy director of the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA), was in October charged by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) for discharging a firearm within 40 yards of a public road and assault at common law.Reports are that on December 18, 2013, Anderson allegedly discharged his firearm unlawfully and pointed it at a complainant before searching him and another civilian on Caribbean Estates Boulevard.However, the director of public prosecutions intervened in the matter, which was before the St Catherine Resident Magistrate’s Court, and offered no evidence on all charges against DSP Anderson.After reviewing files provided by the clerk of the courts and INDECOM as well as correspondence from Anderson’s attorney, DPP Paula Llewellyn, in the interest of justice operating under the powers granted to her by the Constitution, intervened and discontinued the criminal charges laid against DSP Anderson, said a news release from the Office of the Director of Prosecutions.“It is our considered view that the evidentiary material did not satisfy what is required to mount a viable prosecution and as such there was no reasonable prospect of conviction,” the DPP said.