KINGSTON, Jamaica — The security detail for former National Security Minister, Dwight Nelson, remained intact yesterday, after he took to social media to complain about its removal without prior warning.

Minister of State for National Security, Senator Pearnel Charles Jnr, confirmed yesterday that police security was still assigned to the former minister.

Nelson, who served as Minister of National Security during the 2007-2011 Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration, posted the loss of his security detail on Facebook on Sunday, complaining that he had been withdrawn without notice.

However, Charles said yesterday that the action would have been taken by the police, and that he and Minister of National Security, Robert Montague, were unaware of the issue until Nelson made it public. He said that since then the matter has been discussed with the Commissioner and the ministry made aware that the security was reassigned yesterday morning. Nelson had stated on his Facebook page that he still gets death threats from high profile prisoners imprisoned while he was Minister, and that a Superintendent of Police had warned him that of the possibility of criminals invading his home.

In a statement yesterday, Commissioner of Police Carl Williams said that the bodyguard assigned to Nelson would not be removed.

Williams said that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is constantly reviewing the threat level to people assigned with bodyguards. However, he said that there was no plan to remove Nelson’s bodyguard.

Balford Henry