THE burnt shell of a Honda Civic motor car belonging to missing police constable Clayton Salmon was yesterday found along the Dunbeholden main road in the vicinity of the Bernard Lodge cane fields in St Catherine, the police said last night.

According to the police, the burnt vehicle was spotted during a search of the area by a team of police which included members of the Spanish Town police, the Flying Squad, Operation Kingfish and The Caribbean Crime Centre. The search, he said, began at 7:30 am.

"(The) party of police personnel conducted a search in the Bernard Lodge cane fields with a view in finding anything of material evidence, or even the worst case scenario - the body of our colleague," said Deputy Superintendent of Police Mevral Smith, crime officer for St Catherine North.

He said the search party included members of the SpanishTown police, the Flying Squad, Operation Kingfish and the Caribbean Search Centre.

"We have searched hundreds of metres into the canefields without success in locating him, however, we will not stop until this case is justifiably brought to closer," DSP Smith told the Observer yesterday.

Constable Salmon went missing on Friday after he left his Johnson Pen, St Catherine home for an undisclosed location.

His car - a silver 1998 Honda Civic with registration number 6391 DZ - was found at about noon yesterday, the police said.

Yesterday, DSP Smith said that the police were giving the missing cop's family "every support possible" and gave some assurance that the team would continue its search.

"We have a responsibility not only as policemen, not just as citizens, but also as a friend to the family of our colleague," he said.

Residents of Johnson Pen, in the meanwhile, have launched their own search to find the missing cop and have blamed the police for not being proactive.

"Dem tek too long fi start look for the man, look from when him missing. We have to help de police dem cause de whole a we a one," said one female resident, Patricia Watts.

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