JAMAICA-COURT-Police groups to appeal ruling by Constitutional Court

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Five police groups opposed to a recent ruling that will give the Independent Commission for Investigations (INDECOM), the power of arrest, have instructed their lawyers to appeal the decision.
Last week, the court ruling that the Commissioner of INDECOM, Terrence Williams will now be able to arrest and charge members of the police force and the military, without the guidance of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn.
The ruling was handed down in response to a constitutional motion filed by the Police Federation, and other police bodies on behalf of Corporal Malika Reid who was arrested by INDECOM in 2011, in connection with the killing of  Frederick “Mickey” Hill, a businessman from the tourist resort town of Negril in western Jamaica.