A police officer attached to the Urban Renewal Programme has been charged with having sex with a teenage girl. Dwight Rolle, 44, of Spice Street, Pinewood Gardens, did not have a lawyer when he made his initial appearance yesterday before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt on a single charge of unlawful sexual intercourse. Prosecutors allege that Rolle had intercourse with a 15-year-old girl in February and March of 2015. The age of consent is 16.

Rolle was not required to enter a plea to the charge and was granted $5,000 bail with one surety on the condition that he has no contact with the alleged victim. The prosecutor, ASP Clifford Daxon, had no objection to Rolle's release on bail. In making his application for bail, Rolle told Ferguson-Pratt that he needed time to get his affairs in order as the charge took him by surprise. Rolle said, "All this happened in the last two hours."

Asked by the magistrate if he had an opportunity to make a call, Rolle said that he had contacted an lawyer but the lawyer was busy with another matter. Ferguson-Pratt instructed officers to allow Rolle another call to contact his surety. Rolle makes his next court appearance on January 22. At that time, the case is expected to be forwarded to the Supreme Court by a voluntary bill of indictment.

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