The West Kingston Commission of Enquiry will today visit the Tivoli Gardens community where a police-military operation in 2010 ended with the deaths of more than 70 people.

Chairman of the Enquiry, Sir David Simmons, said the visit will last for about three hours.

He said each organisation or person with standing at the enquiry will be allowed two representatives for the visit.

Meanwhile, the enquiry heard evidence yesterday that a document presented by the Office of the Public Defender indicating that Governor General Sir Patrick Allen gave consent to a state of emergency more than a week before the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens was fake.

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The document in question is purported to be a proclamation by Sir Patrick on May 13, 2010, declaring a limited state of emergency in sections of the Corporate Area.

It also formed part of the public defender's interim report on the conduct of the operations, which was submitted to the House of Representatives.

However, testifying before the three-member panel, supervisor at the Government Printing Office, Demsha Thompson, said the proclamation declaring the statement of emergency in 2010 was issued on May 23 and gazetted a day later.

Thompson said a thorough check has revealed that the document dated May 13, 2010 was a counterfeit which also contained several inaccuracies.