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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Damned if you do , ...( Observer )...</span>
THE police are steadfastly investigating e-mails circulating, some of which are warning the public to be careful when they visit certain shopping centres this Yuletide season.In the meantime, a senior member of the Flying Squad wants Jamaicans to remain calm, while not dropping their guard, as they probe what they argue could be a plan to disarm them in order to entrap them into other schemes."We have ruled nothing out," head of the Flying Squad Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford told the Sunday Observer."We have put several measures in place to keep persons safe and we would want everybody to believe in the tactics being employed by the force," Ford said.One of the latest e-mails circulating is that criminals were letting the air out of tyres at Sovereign Centre in particular, then knocking on the windows of motorists, alerting them that their tyres were deflated. The robbers would then pounce when the victim comes out of the car."If this happens to you, do not, repeat, do not stop - just drive to the gas station or the Matilda's Corner police station," the e-mail read.Ford said that he was aware of the e-mail and stopped short of ruling it out as fake."We have heard about it, but we have placed a lot of police there, we have seen no sign of that happening, nor have heard anything about that."All kinds of things will come out now, but the police have received no report of something like that happening," Ford said.The senior police officer's assertion was confirmed by personnel at the Matilda's Corner police station, who up to when the Sunday Observer visited the office last Wednesday night, had not received any report about the alleged criminal activity at Sovereign.Another of the e-mails sent out urged motorists to be on the lookout for drivers who would deliberately hit their vehicles, causing them to stop, and then holding them up at gunpoint.Police records show that drivers, particularly women, are often robbed of valuables and sometimes their vehicles, when men run into their vehicles, mainly on lonely roads, forcing them to stop.While there is merit to that claim, others cannot be substantiated, according to Ford."There is also one which says something about driving with your lights on and somebody would flash you and if you flash back, men in the other vehicle would turn around and follow you and then hold you up."We also had reports through e-mails that criminals were kidnapping and robbing people in Cherry Gardens when nothing like that was happening."People are making up all kinds of e-mails and flooding the market with them. This seems like some kind of plan to drive fear into people while they think of other ways of attacking them," Ford said. Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz17FYbDct5http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz17FYbDct5
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Damned if you do , ...( Observer )...</span>
THE police are steadfastly investigating e-mails circulating, some of which are warning the public to be careful when they visit certain shopping centres this Yuletide season.In the meantime, a senior member of the Flying Squad wants Jamaicans to remain calm, while not dropping their guard, as they probe what they argue could be a plan to disarm them in order to entrap them into other schemes."We have ruled nothing out," head of the Flying Squad Superintendent Cornwall 'Bigga' Ford told the Sunday Observer."We have put several measures in place to keep persons safe and we would want everybody to believe in the tactics being employed by the force," Ford said.One of the latest e-mails circulating is that criminals were letting the air out of tyres at Sovereign Centre in particular, then knocking on the windows of motorists, alerting them that their tyres were deflated. The robbers would then pounce when the victim comes out of the car."If this happens to you, do not, repeat, do not stop - just drive to the gas station or the Matilda's Corner police station," the e-mail read.Ford said that he was aware of the e-mail and stopped short of ruling it out as fake."We have heard about it, but we have placed a lot of police there, we have seen no sign of that happening, nor have heard anything about that."All kinds of things will come out now, but the police have received no report of something like that happening," Ford said.The senior police officer's assertion was confirmed by personnel at the Matilda's Corner police station, who up to when the Sunday Observer visited the office last Wednesday night, had not received any report about the alleged criminal activity at Sovereign.Another of the e-mails sent out urged motorists to be on the lookout for drivers who would deliberately hit their vehicles, causing them to stop, and then holding them up at gunpoint.Police records show that drivers, particularly women, are often robbed of valuables and sometimes their vehicles, when men run into their vehicles, mainly on lonely roads, forcing them to stop.While there is merit to that claim, others cannot be substantiated, according to Ford."There is also one which says something about driving with your lights on and somebody would flash you and if you flash back, men in the other vehicle would turn around and follow you and then hold you up."We also had reports through e-mails that criminals were kidnapping and robbing people in Cherry Gardens when nothing like that was happening."People are making up all kinds of e-mails and flooding the market with them. This seems like some kind of plan to drive fear into people while they think of other ways of attacking them," Ford said. Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz17FYbDct5http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz17FYbDct5