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could receive visits on Wednesdays and Sundays but she could only talk to them through
the bars for a few minutes. She was only allowed one telephone call to inform her family of
her arrest and would like to use the telephone more frequently.
166. A detainee, aged 28. She was detained in the morning of 15 February 2010 at a
communal farm by four police officers, three of whom were uniformed. They threatened to
shoot her and put her into a police jeep. One of the officers received a call and asked her
whether she knew a certain man. She replied that he was her boyfriend. They also asked her
whether he was part of the gang that was stealing old iron. She was taken to the holding
area of Denham Town Police Station for a few hours, where she was told that her boyfriend
had been killed by the police. Later a police officer told her that somebody had been killed
in a shootout soon after her detention. However, he had no weapons, so she thought he
would have been killed by the police. She was charged by the police of having received
stolen goods. On 15 February, she was taken to Duhaney Park, where she read in a
newspaper that her boyfriend had been killed in a shootout. She thought he was a victim of
an arbitrary killing by the police. At Duhaney Park, she was treated well by the police. She
would go to court the following day. There were only female guards in the lock-up. The
day before, the detainees received breakfast at 10 a.m., and lunch and dinner together
already at 11 a.m. She complained about cockroaches in the lock-up.
167. A detainee, aged approximately 40, had been arrested for possession of marijuana
on 27 January 2010. She complained that she was hungry all the time as the detainees did
not get enough food, and that the officers were not responsive when she called them.
168. A detainee, aged approximately 45, was arrested and taken to Central Village Police
Station in Spanish Town before being taken to Duhaney Park. She thought Central Village
was worse, although she complained that at Duhaney Park she could not go out and see the
sun. She said that her phone calls had been denied and that she could not call her family
since she had arrived. She had the feeling that the rules were arbitrary.
169. A detainee, aged approximately 35, arrived at Duhaney Park the night before the
visit of the Special Rapporteur, after she had been taken out of a plane for drug possession.
She had not been brutalized but complained about the lack of hygiene at the lock-up, the
insufficient quantity of food and the lack of privacy when she used the toilet.
170. A detainee was arrested on 6 February 2010. Countless police officers from a
“flying squad” came to her sister’s house where she was staying. The commanding officer
ordered her to go downstairs. He was sitting on the stairs and she was standing in front of
him. He started questioning her and when she answered he called her a liar. He beat her on
the forehead with a hockey stick. The second blow caused her forehead to burst and bleed.
Her hands were cuffed. Another officer took his belt and beat her many times. She was also
beaten with the belt buckle all over her body. She had a scar on her forehead and numerous
bruises on her left shoulder and arm as well as on the front side and back of her left thigh.
Her lawyer, to whom she had shown the bruises, had taken pictures of the injuries and took
her to Kingston Public Hospital. She would like to complain about the ill-treatment when
she would be taken to court. The findings of the forensic expert of the Special Rapporteur
corroborated the allegations of ill-treatment.
Maxfield Park Children’s Home
Visited on 18 February 2010
General information
171. The Special Rapporteur was received by Superintendant Laura Brayham (Ms). At
the time of the visit, there were 99 children (64 boys and 35 girls) at the Children’s Home.
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