Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator

Western Bureau:

Several senior investigators and divisional crime officers have been reshuffled as part of the plan to put a tighter grip on the country's escalating crime problem. More than 560 people have been killed since January.

Information reaching The Gleaner is that Superintendent Wilford Gayle, an experienced investigator who was recently hand-picked for a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) course in the United States, has been removed from Area One and is to be reassigned to Area Five. He is to replace Deputy Superintendent Denzil Boyd, who is heading to the Mobile Reserve Unit in Kingston.

Deputy Superintendent Michael Scott, who has been successful in apprehending some of the country's most notorious criminals, has been taken from the tough crime zone of west Kingston and transferred to Mobile Reserve.

"These transfers are part of a recommendation," a senior officer told The Gleaner yesterday.

Clarendon

Another front-line crime fighter, Deputy Superintendent Donald Fogarthy, has taken over the hotbed of Clarendon. He has replaced Cleon Marsh, who has gone to head a school set up for detectives at the Police Academy in Twickenham Park, St Catherine.

Deputy Superintendent Meveral Smith, the man who was sent from the troubled St Catherine North Division by former Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas to stop the bloodletting in Montego Bay, St James, will also be transferred to a new division.

glenroy.sinclair@gleanerjm.com