The leadership of the TTPS seems to ready and willing to make the often hard and challenging decisions necessary to pursue potential criminal activity within the service. A serious commitment to thoroughly investigating allegations of dereliction of duty will ultimately redound to the benefit of all officers, ensuring that temptation are met with the potential for prosecution.
There was intriguing news in policing last week, not quite man bites dog, but two separate stories of police officers either being arrested or sought for arrest on serious criminal charges within days of each other.PC Kevin Jacob and his colleagues Selvon Joseph and Samuel Gardiner stood accused in the Chaguanas Magistrates Court of taking a bribe to release an illegal immigrant, Guyanese national Desean Rose, from the Chaguanas Police Station.
The three officers face three charges, willfully releasing a detainee from legal custody, accepting a bribe of $20,000 to disregard a criminal offence and accepting that sum to disregard the detection and prosecution of the offender.The charges were laid by Sgt Bryon Daniel of the Professional Standards Bureau offering hope for a new level of internal investigation at work within the Police Service, and the level of detail brought with the charges suggests a case that was properly researched before it was taken before Senior Magistrate Gillian David-Scotland.The Police Service is also seeking one of their own; a woman police officer gone AWOL in the United Kingdom after allegedly defrauding the TTPS of more than a quarter of a million dollars over a three-month period.
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