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11.144.
On p.6 of Appendix ‘A’ to the Operational Plan of the JCF is
provision for “Injured Persons”. It is stated as follows thereunder:
“The ACP Mobile Reserve will deploy the Armoured
Ambulance for use in the extraction of any injured
person, to include members of the Security Forces
during the operation. Increased RTC deployment to
coincide with the operation will be deployed at the
hospital to deal with security, crowd control and the
protection of security personnel who may be
hospitalised. The persons injured in the operation
will be taken to the Kingston Public Hospital along a
specified route.”
11.145.
The said Appendix ‘A’ set out the duties of the “Silver
Commander – Arrest, Search and Evidence Gathering” as follows:
“An Assistant Commissioner of Police will be the
Silver Commander with responsibility for arrest,
search, evidence-gathering, processing of the subject
and treatment of significant other suspects
arrested/detained.”
Bronze Commanders “Search, Arrest, Evidence-Gathering” were to be
“appointed and briefed by ACP CIB”.
11.146.
There was no specific provision in Appendix ‘A’ for dealing
with the
collection or treatment of dead bodies
. Indeed there was no
mention of such persons in Appendix ‘A’. Thus, any duties in
connection with the removal of dead bodies could only arise where the
circumstances, by their very nature, imposed duties. On 4 June 2015,
SSP Graham agreed that the Operational Plan was “tweaked from here
to there to respond to the dynamics of the situation”. He also said, in
answer to Ms. Taylor of INDECOM: