A police constable was reportedly killed on Thursday night along Manning's Hill Road, St Andrew, after he was mowed down by a car driven by a motorist whom he had told that his vehicle would be seized.

The dead policeman has been identified as Ainsroy Rushton who was attached to the Constant Spring Police Station in the parish.

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Police reports are that about 10:30 p.m., a police team signalled the driver of a vehicle to stop. The driver complied and Constable Rushton requested the documents of the vehicle. After recognising irregularities with the documents, Constable Rushton is said to have informed the driver that the vehicle would be seized.

Further reports are that the driver got into to the vehicle and sped off, slamming the car into the policeman in the process and later crashing into a wall before fleeing the scene.

Constable Rushton was taken to hospital where he died while undergoing treatment. The driver of the deadly vehicle, a 23-year-old man of a Forrest Hill address also in St Andrew, later turned himself in and was taken into custody.

He has not yet been charged. Chairman of the Police Fede-ration Sergeant Raymond Wilson says the Force is once again in mourning.

"We have to continue to support our members because the truth is we have been burying policemen and women continuously for quite a while now ... Whether they died by murder, accident or even natural causes," Sergeant Wilson said.