“When the phone was answered the phone was just open and that was it,” head of the team, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Orlando Lewis related yesterday.

Biggs, one of two JCF officers murdered during Friday's police operation in Horizon Park, St Catherine, was under Lewis's command specialising in intelligence gathering for the force.

Lewis said he had last spoken with Biggs the day before (Thursday) reminding him about outstanding documents to be submitted for a gang investigation and surveillance training course in which he was scheduled to participate.

The DSP said Biggs was assigned to the St Catherine North Police Division but covered the entire parish at the time of his death because of the ongoing state of public emergency there.

Hylton, who served four years in the force, also operated from the St Catherine North Police Division.