A police constable is among three persons charged yesterday in connection with the drugs-for-gun trade between Jamaica and Haiti.

They are Constable Kenneth Reid; Sheldon Walters, otherwise called 'Termite', and Kerry-Ann Smith both of Kitson Town, St Catherine. All three were charged for being a member of a criminal organisation.

Reid was, however, additionally charged for providing a benefit to a criminal organisation. Walters, the police said, is also known to be a significant member of one of the major gangs operating in St Catherine.

Detectives attached to the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (C-TOC) in collaboration with detectives from St Catherine North Proactive Investigation Unit (PIU), arrested and charged three persons under the Criminal Justice Suppression of Criminal Organisation Act 2014 and the Anti-Gang Act.

The police said that on various dates, suspects conspired to engage in the infamous drugs-for-guns trade between criminal elements in the Republic of Haiti and Jamaica. The three accused were picked up by the police in St Catherine and Red Hills, St Andrew.

They are scheduled to appear before the Corporate Area Rxesident Magistrate's Court at Half-way Tree today.

The police said as detectives of the C-TOC seek to reduce the inflow of illegal firearms and ammunition into Jamaica consistent with the JCF 6D Anti- Gang strategy, the branch will continue to leverage the recently enacted Criminal Justice Suppression of Criminal Organisation Act 2014.