Glenroy Sinclair, Staff Reporter

With tears of pain filling their eyes, several members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) watched as the lifeless body of one of their colleagues was taken from the barracks of the Bog Walk Police Station, St. Catherine, yesterday morning.

Reports are that 24-year-old Constable Kevon Oneil Ricketts had just returned from a police operation in High Mountain, Bog Walk, and immediately went to lie down in the barracks quarters.

Several minutes later, a colleague went to the barracks room and saw Constable Ricketts lying across the bed. He attempted to wake him but got no response. An alarm was made and the constable was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The Gleaner understands that an autopsy report later showed that a brain hemorrhage was the cause of death.

"He was a hard worker, well disciplined," said Inspector Neville Whitely, the sub-officer in charge of the Bog Walk Police Station.

Constable Ricketts was officially assigned to the traffic desk at the Linstead Police Station, but customarily visited colleagues at the Bog Walk Station to offer assistance. He enlisted in the JCF on September 17, 2001, a year after he completed a plumbing course at the Old Harbour Vocational Training Centre in St. Catherine.