INCOMING COMMISSIONER of Police, Lucius Thomas, yesterday said he has increased the number of investigators on the case of two men who went missing after they were allegedly arrested by the police.
According to Mr. Thomas, every investigator available to him has been assigned to the case.
Mr. Thomas made the statement after the human rights group, Jamaicans for Justice, hinted that it will be seeking overseas help to bring pressure to bear on the authorities on the matter.
The men, Kemar Walters and Oliver Duncan, were last seen in the Washington Boulevard Plaza two days before Christmas, and were allegedly in the company of two policemen, one of whom is attached to the Organised Crime Unit.
The policemen have since come under scrutiny and have been taken off frontline duty to facilitate the investigation into the men's disappearance.
Human rights group, Families Against State Terrorism (FAST), has lashed out at the police force in the wake of the recent mysterious disappearance of the two men.
"Killings by police are serious enough, but disappearances in Pinochet-style show the frightening possibilities of a police force out of control," FAST said in a statement.
Up to yesterday there was still no word as to the whereabouts of the men.
On Friday, angry residents of Kitson Town in St. Catherine, where Walters is from, blocked the main road in protest over what they say is the slow pace of the investigation.
