Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley, who is accused of accepting extortion money from a St Catherine businessman, is to know his fate on November 18.

After the defence closed its case yesterday, Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey said she was going to hand down the verdict on November 18 in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

Daley is the first senior police officer to be charged with breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act.

The senior cop is accused of collecting protection money from the complainant, Tafari Clarke, for a plaza in St Catherine. He was held during a sting operation in Kingston in July 2008.

The resident magistrate heard addresses from defence lawyers yesterday when the defence closed its case after calling its final witness, Dwayne Lennon, the complainant's cousin.

Defence lawyer Valerie Neita-Robertson, in imploring the resident magistrate to return a not guilty verdict, argued that the prosecution did not prove that there was extortion and had presented no evidence of a threat or any similar behaviour being done by the accused.

No basis for the assertion

She said there was no basis for the assertion or inference that the money paid to Clarke was extortion or protection money. She said Daley's defence that the money was for the repayment of a loan had not been challenged.

In response to the submission, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Dirk Harrison said the prosecution had put forward a case dubbed 'the trial of the quintessential corrupt cop'.

He said the accused, being a public servant, corruptly accepted $15,000 from the complainant for doing an act in the performance of his public function, to offer protection to Clarke and his premises which were under threat.

Harrison said the Crown had proved its case against Daley and there were video recordings to substantiate the its case.