JPS employees arrested

Two employees of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) are now behind bars for allegedly collecting money from a customer with an irregularity on his premises.



Reports are that the employees accepted payment from the customer promising that they would not report the irregularity.



A release from the JPS says the men offered to assist in facilitating future electricity theft by adjusting the customer’s metre.



The customer alerted the police, and the men were subsequently arrested.



The JPS says the employees have been suspended from their duties, pending an internal investigation into the matter.



More than 30 JPS employees have been dismissed in the last two years for illegal activities, including material theft, fraud, aiding and abetting electricity theft and accepting bribes.