A number of the island's district constables (DCs) is crying foul over the “poor” treatment they say is being meted out to them by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), even as the group celebrates District Constable Week.

The DC pointed to the Horizon Park operation in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on June 12, which left two policemen — Detective Corporal Dane Biggs and Constable Decardo Hylton — dead, Superintendent Leon Clunis seriously injured, and district constable Lothan Richards needing surgery.

The Observer was told that approximately four district constables were a part of the supposed 11-man team that went on the early-morning operation and were attacked, allegedly by deportee Damion Hamilton, who was later that day cut down by police in Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew.

The district constable said that there is only one arm within the JCF that treats DCs with dignity, and that is the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse.

We have a WhatsApp group with district constables all over, and we are all saying the same thing — the treatment is horrible.