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In the days of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, this Presidential Click office in Tivoli Gardens was hallowed territory. Today, it will be transformed into a police post, a signal that Coke's empire has crumbled and that the State is in full control of the community. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer Gary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer THE PROMISE of a new day dawns in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, with today's scheduled opening of a police post in the community that has been devoid of consistent police presence for most of its existence. In an ironic twist of fate, the police post is being set up in the Presidential Click office - the headquarters of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the community kingpin-turned-fugitive. Coke fled the community over which he ruled with an iron fist after the police attempted to arrest him last week. The police incursion led to a gunfight between gunmen loyal to Coke and members of the security ...