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• providing training as to completion of questionnaires.
• deploying these officers to affected communities;
• carrying out house to house inspections and assessments;
• entering data collected in an in-house Management Information
System (MIS);
• generating necessary reports;
8.136.
On 1 June 2010, approximately 100 officers from the MoLSS, SDC,
Kingston and St. Andrew Poor Relief Department were deployed to Tivoli
Gardens, Denham Town, Hannah Town and Fletcher’s Land. They were
assigned in teams of four or five persons, each with a team leader.
8.137.
The questionnaire sought information about demographic data of
families, type of dwelling, names and numbers of persons in a family and
whether any had died during the operation, nature of damage to dwellings,
furniture and household contents and the value of damage. A “dwelling” was
defined as a physical space in which a person or family resided. It was not
necessarily synonymous with a house, although it could be. There could,
therefore, be multiple dwellings in one house or building.
8.138.
Mrs. Roberts-Risden’s witness statement then states –
“Each morning the officers were transported to the Tivoli
Gardens Community Centre where they met with the
Warrant Officer on the ground. He assigned army personnel
to accompany each team while they carried out assessments
of damage to places of residence. The exercise lasted 14
days (1-15 June 2010).”
8.139.
The teams of assessors were instructed to visit every dwelling and
assess it. After the information was compiled, there was a verification process
whereby officers were sent back to the communities to verify the information
gathered.