IN JAMAICA: Senior cops murder suspects......Kevin Adams has been charged with four murders....officers had been arrested for two murders that had initially been reported as homicides committed by civilians.

BY KARYL WALKER Editor — Crime/Court Desk walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com  Tuesday, April 01, 2014 

SENIOR police officers are being investigated by the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) for their alleged roles in extra-judicial killings.

INDECOM Commissioner Terrence Williams made the revelation during a press conference at the commission’s Dumfries Road headquarters in Kingston yesterday.

Williams also said officers from Area Three — which comprises Clarendon, Manchester and St Elizabeth — had been arrested for two murders that had initially been reported as homicides committed by civilians.

“The commission intends to consider carefully whether any senior officer permitted, ordered or acquiesced in the activities which led to these killings, and if there is evidence that shows that they did so, to ensure that those matters are put before the proper tribunal for a determination,” he said.

“We do not intend to stop at the police officer on the ground. We intend to take the investigation wherever it leads,” he added.

INDECOM Commissioner Terrence Williams

So far, four cops — constables Collin ‘Chuckie’ Brown, Carl Bucknor, Jerome Whyte, and Detective Corporal Kevin Adams — are charged with murder relating to killings that took place in Clarendon.

Adams has been charged with four murders — Asif Washington in January last year; Andrew Bissoon in September 2011; Sylvester Gallimore in May 2011; and Andrew Trought in February 2012.

Bucknor has also been charged with Bissoon’s murder, while Whyte has also been charged with Trought’s murder. more