Jamaican Cops arrested for fake passport scam

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A police Sergeant and a Constable are the latest to fall into the ongoing anti-corruption dragnet.

On Thursday, Detective Sergeant Winston Pollack and Constable Tyrone Bryan were arrested for suspected breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act and conspiracy to commit a criminal offence.

The police report that in February, the proprietor of a supermarket and wholesale in St. Catherine paid Detective Sergeant Pollack $115,000 to obtain a Jamaican passport.

The shopkeeper is a foreign national with a Jamaican work permit and was not entitled to a Jamaican passport.

Investigators believe the cops used some of the money to employ another individual to secure the passport which was eventually delivered to the foreigner.

The man later went to a Passport Immigration and Citizenship office where he used the fake document as personal identification in applying for a passport for his daughter.

Immigration officials discovered that the passport was fake called in Anti-Corruption Branch investigators, who traced the document back to the policemen.

They were arrested and are to be interviewed in the presence of their attorneys.