Meeting at Rosa Linda

Inspector of Police Milford was proud of his team. The service boat that was assigned to the Ocho Man station had undergone its first bow to stern routine maintenance and was in good order to continue supporting law enforcement in surveillance, monitoring and search and rescue along 70Km of coastline running from St Basil parish in the east through the town of Ocho Man and to Cascade River, which was the border of Mammee Parish and where their jurisdiction ended. There were larger police areas on the island of Jamaica, but outside of Kingston and Montego Bay, Ocho Man had the busiest and most diverse boating activity.

He glanced at his wind-up watch, a discontinued Swiss made piece that was handed down to him when he graduated from the police academy a few years before and it read 6:55AM; he also wore a smartwatch, which he used for everything else but checking the time.

Milford had set launch time for 7 and the crew were on time. The vessel was as spotless inside as it was outside, and the low hum of the twin outboard engines was thrilling. Their police boat was among the smarter vessels that were now in motion beyond the bay and within the Mammee bight.

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