A policeman who was implicated in the theft of a motor car from Fyffe's Pen district, St Elizabeth, in December last year, was offered $450,000 bail with one or two sureties when he appeared in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Special Constable Phillip Steele, 24, of Rio Nuevo, St Mary, is before the court on receiving stolen property charges. He is charged with Dave Brown of St Mary, after both men were implicated in the theft of a car. As a condition of his bail, he is to report to the Oracabessa Police Station daily between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

He was also told to surrender his travel documents and stop orders were placed at both international airports.

Dave Brown, who also appeared in court, was offered $150,000 bail with sureties. Both men were taken into custody after a vehicle, which was stolen in St Elizabeth last year, was found in the possession of Brown.

Brown, who was charged, larceny, told investigators that he had borrowed the vehicle from Special Constable Steele.

Constable Steele's attorney, Glen Cruickshank, had complained to the court that his client had been in custody since the incident without being charged.