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units that were exiting the station from turning left onto
Albert Street.”
6.8.
Supt. Brown concluded that these barricades as well as those
blocking most of the access roads into Tivoli Gardens must have been erected
overnight since they were not in place on 20 May when the women in white
T-shirts demonstrated in front of Denham Town Police Station. There was
information that armed men were going into Tivoli Gardens at night and leaving
early the next morning.
6.9.
On Saturday, 22 May, Supt. Brown patrolled the outskirts of Tivoli
Gardens and Denham Town. He saw blockages at Darling Street, Charles Street
and Oxford Street,
inter alia
. By Sunday, 23 May, all access to Denham Town
Police Station had been cut off. As a result, Supt. Brown was obliged to go to
Admiral Town Station where he remained until shortly after 3.00 p.m. He went
to Trench Town Police Station and, about 6.30 p.m., the Crowd Control
Response Unit came to Trench Town station and assisted him and other officers
who had been prevented from going to work at Denham Town. Supt. Brown
stated –
“I observed that while the unit was transporting us it had to
push through the debris that blocked Spanish Town Road.”
6.10.
Nevertheless, he was able to spend the night at Denham Town
Police Station. On 24 May, “Denham Town was still blockaded as well as parts of
Tivoli Gardens”.
ACP Leon Rose
6.11.
ACP Leon Rose pinpointed 18 May 2010 as the date on which
criminal elements began mobilisation to fortify Tivoli Gardens. He said that he
was privy to information and Intelligence that there was “tremendous
mobilisation of criminal elements in Tivoli Gardens” between 18 and 23 May.
Then he said: