KINGSTON, Jamaica — National Security Minister Robert Montague will handover motor vehicles to the Jamaica Constabulary Force tomorrow at the Police Commissioner’s Old Hope Road office.

The motor vehicles are the remainder of the 119 vehicles which the Government had been sourcing locally for the police.

Montague told the Jamaica Observer last Thursday that the ministry had already received the initial set of units and that it had to canvass all the motor vehicle suppliers across the island, which are registered with the National Contracts Commission.

“We entered into negotiations and purchased what they had in stock,” he said, adding that “the procurement started October, so there wasn’t any mad rush”.

The Government acquired the vehicles through emergency procurement after fallout in its $426.9-million deal with Obrien’s International Car Sales to supply the police with 200 used vehicles.

Obrien’s was paid half of the contract amount and should have delivered the vehicles by June of this year, but so far, only 30 units have been handed over.