The Reg­i­ment says it is near to com­plet­ing its in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to why sol­diers were parked out­side Guardian build­ing and ques­tion­ing of a se­cu­ri­ty guard about a car which was parked at the Queen Street carpark on Ju­ly 14.In a tele­phone in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day pub­lic af­fairs of­fi­cer of the Reg­i­ment, Capt Ste­fan Al­fon­so said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was wrap­ping up and should be com­plet­ed by next week.Al­fon­so al­so not­ed there have been two of­fi­cial re­ports of abuse by sol­diers in the Laven­tille area and that in­ves­ti­ga­tion should al­so be com­plet­ed by next week.

On Ju­ly 14, sol­diers ar­rived at the com­pound of GML, St Vin­cent Street, mo­ments af­ter Dil­lon "Bandy" Skeete ar­rived for an in­ter­view.They had been search­ing for Skeete fol­low­ing the mur­der of Lance Cor­po­ral Kay­o­de Thomas on June 29.Dur­ing the in­ter­view with Skeete, some­one called in a bomb threat and the build­ing was evac­u­at­ed.Fol­low­ing the threat a se­nior reg­i­ment of­fi­cer tele­phoned an ed­i­tor at the T&T Guardian stat­ing that a man want­ed by them was housed at the build­ing.In a me­dia re­lease, one day lat­er the Reg­i­ment de­nied any in­volve­ment in the bomb threat, hunt­ing Skeete or any oth­er ac­tiv­i­ties that per­tained to il­le­gal op­er­a­tions.

The re­lease con­firmed sol­diers were on GML's com­pound but their ver­sion con­tra­dict­ed the eye­wit­ness­es ac­count.GML man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Lisa Agard said then that the com­pa­ny was giv­ing its full co-op­er­a­tion to the reg­i­ment but had al­so made an of­fi­cial com­plaint to the po­lice.She added that reg­i­ment in­ves­ti­ga­tors told her as a con­se­quence of what they read came to in­ves­ti­gate. Two em­ploy­ees who in­ter­act­ed with the sol­diers were in­ter­viewed.Dur­ing the week­ly press brief­ing on Wednes­day pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer In­sp Wayne Mys­tar said po­lice were con­tin­u­ing their in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the claims of the bomb threat.He could not say though if po­lice had traced the tele­phone num­ber of the per­son who called in the threat.