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Kingston and were dressed in white Tee shirts and jeans.
We secured them and handed them over to the police for
processing. Some of the men were pushed out by residents
of Denham Town. The residents denied knowledge of
them.”
10.245.
Lt. Col. Ogilvie said in cross-examination that the guidance which
he gave his troops in briefings was “to detain persons and then quickly hand
them over to the JCF”. With regard to Seprod, Lt. Col. Ogilvie said –
“I was aware that Seprod was to be used as an intermediate
processing point for persons detained before moving them
to another place… I went to Seprod once. I did not see the
conditions. I saw some detainees on a vehicle. The JCF had
the responsibility for handling detainees.”
(ii)
Major Kennedy
10.246.
Maj. Kennedy was asked by the Chairman: “For what purpose did
you detain these men?” He answered:
“The information we got prior to going into Tivoli was the
fact that there were a large number of suspicious men in the
community. A lot of them did not come from the community
and we had a list of some of the wanted men but there were
others there that we weren’t aware of. So we treated the
situation that everyone would have equal opportunity to be
interviewed by the police so we take the young men and
handed them over to the police.”
10.247.
The Chairman’s follow-up question was: “So you did not detain
those men on the basis of reasonable suspicion that they were doing anything
wrong?” He answered:
“Not that I am aware of. No Sir.”
10.248.
Under cross-examination by Mr. McBean Q.C. on 23 October 2015,
Maj. Kennedy said –
“We detained persons wherever we found a large group of
men and secured persons in the Community Centre. They
were handed over to the police. We detained young men on