L-r: Keith Darien, Principal Director of Financial Crimes Investigations at the FID, looks on as Sydonie Greenwood, FID’s Director of Asset Recovery presents a key fob for one of the eight vehicles being donated to the JCF’s Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime Branch (CTOC), represented by its head, Senior Superintendent Dr. Steve McGregor and Senior Superintendent Patrae Rowe, Director of the Firearms and Narcotics Investigations Division (FNID).
[Original release date January 22, 2026]: The Financial Investigations Division (FID) today handed over eight (8) motor vehicles to the JCF’s Counter-Terrorism and Organized Crime (CTOC), following the successful prosecution of matters involving breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). The vehicles were forfeited to the Crown and are being transferred to support CTOC’s operational capacity, including its Constabulary Financial Unit (CFU) and Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division (FNID).
The handover reflects the FID’s ongoing work to identify, restrain, and recover assets derived from criminal conduct, and to ensure recovered assets can be repurposed in ways that strengthen Jamaica’s broader crime-fighting capabilities.
Six of the eight vehicles were forfeited from fraud matters, with one forfeited from a corruption case and one from a cybercrime matter. The total estimated market value is approximately J$7,390,000.
Speaking on the significance of the handover, Keith Darien, Principal Director, Financial Crimes Investigations at the FID, noted that asset recovery is both a deterrent and a practical benefit to law enforcement: “This handover is a clear example of how our collaboration with the JCF is multi-layered, to include investigations, prosecutions, and recovery that can translate into real operational support for CTOC.
When the public supports the FID and our partner law enforcement agencies in combating crime, the country benefits. Even at a modest scale, asset recovery can reduce pressure on government resources by returning the proceeds of crime to strengthen the crime-fighting Machinery. This is what it looks like to remove the benefit from crime.”
Senior Superintendent Patrae Rowe, Director of the FNID added: “These vehicles received from the FID today most certainly will strengthen our operational mobility and will certainly add value to the Firearms and Narcotics Investigation Division; and it will allow for quicker and more responsive action without diverting already burdened police resources that could be used otherwise.
This handover demonstrates what coordinated law enforcement can achieve: assets linked to criminality are recovered through due process and redirected into public safety. It’s a tangible example of partnership in action, and it reinforces the broader point that when the public supports the work of the FNID and the FID the combined effort redounds to the benefit of the country and the Jamaican people.”
The FID emphasized that asset recovery under POCA is a critical tool in disrupting criminal networks by removing the financial incentives of crime and preventing illicit gains from being enjoyed or reinvested into further wrongdoing.