KINGSTON, Jamaica – The police are reporting that as a part of ongoing efforts to address public order and human trafficking issues, an operation was conducted in the Grove Road area of Kencot, in Kingston on Friday.

Nine women were taken into custody, one of whom was charged with breaches of the Spirit Licence Act.

She is 36-year-old Akealia Gordon of Independence City, St Catherine.

Information gathered by the communications arm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force is that about 7:30 am a special operation was carried out at a facility operating as a bar and a massage parlour. Eight females from different parishes across the island, and as far as Westmoreland were picked up. The operator of the bar was subsequently charged for operating without a licence. The other women were processed and released.

“The police will be unrelenting in addressing matters treating on public order and other related issues within the division,” said SSP Millicent Sproul Thomas, Commander for the St Andrew Central Division and leader of the operation.