Rosalee plans to take legal action

TikTok star June 'Rosalee' Dixon said she plans to take legal action against the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) after a video surfaced online showing her in a compromising situation during a police 'sting operation'.

The incident, which occurred last Saturday around 9 a.m., has sparked outrage and prompted a formal investigation by the JCF.

"I was in my house, lying on my bed in deep sleep. Mi hear somebody say 'June' and mi jump up. I was naked, because I sleep naked. When mi look up a pure police," she said. "Mi not even come to consciousness but mi frighten and start react cause me see them with gun and mi babyfather. Mi mek dem search because dem say dem deh pon sting operation but no criminal element nah keep here so."

She said the situation started to become even more uncomfortable when she noticed she was being recorded.

"Dem start search and a ask mi babyfather questions. Three a dem stand up a di front door and me see one a them have him phone up but mi never think him a really video, 'cause mi naked and him a police. Me just shocked and a wonder wah gwaan until him tell me fi get up and put on clothes and come with them," she claimed.

Rosalee has reported the incident to the Inspectorate and Professional Standards Oversight Bureau and plans to sue the officer responsible.

"Mi a sue dem fi invasion a privacy and for putting me out naked to the world. Them ago pay dearly," she said. Her partner, Andrew 'Jakes' Beckford, said the police did not have a warrant and said they did not need one "because it's a sting operation".

"Then the one weh do the video did a question me inna one room bout mi acquaintance. When him done question me him go start video her," Jakes said. He expressed concern over the lack of professionalism displayed by the officers and criticised them for a lack of decency and respect. Rosalee, who questioned the legitimacy of the operation, said that she was shocked when she saw the video on TikTok.

"People comment negative things and class me just like how him [the police] class me when him did deh here. The people on TikTok class me every day so that don't matter, but as a police officer weh come to serve and protect, why you video me naked and put it on social media?" she said. Concerns have also been raised about the potential for their children to face bullying at school due to the video's exposure.

Attorney John Clarke, who specialises in constitutional law and human rights, expressed shock at the development.

"But I'm not surprised because we have been seeing many other such videos whereby interaction between the police and citizens in their private setting has somehow miraculously found themselves in a public space," Clarke said. He called for stricter regulations and accountability within the police force.

"There needs to be some force of order or some rules that the police develop, that the commissioner develops to guide the officers in relation to how they interact with citizens and how they interact, whether it's on private phone or government-issued devices, to find themselves in the public domain," he explained.

"What we have is that many of our rights are being peeled back to allow officers to engage citizens in their home and when rights are being peeled back we can't have abuses like this," he said.