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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Speed limit also for cops, says Remesar

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While Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has as­sured his dri­vers will be tra­vers­ing at the re­quired 80 kilo­me­tres on the high­ways, head of the Po­lice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, In­sp Anand Rame­sar, says there was no pro­vi­sion in law for of­fi­cers to dri­ve above the speed lim­it any­way.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view, Rame­sar said: "There is no law. Every­body is gov­erned by the rules of the Trinidad and To­ba­go, with­out ex­cep­tion, un­less the law states.

"If a po­lice­man is found want­i­ng while dri­ving he will be judged like any oth­er dri­ver in Trinidad and To­ba­go, in­clud­ing in an of­fi­cial po­lice ve­hi­cle.

"There is no ex­cep­tion. If in hot pur­suit then that will be up to a judge or a mag­is­trate's dis­cre­tion."

On his re­turn from a 12-day trip abroad on Sat­ur­day night Row­ley told the me­dia his dri­vers would be ad­her­ing to the speed lim­it.

"They had bet­ter. I'm very scared of fast dri­ving," Row­ley said, adding his dri­vers can at­test to him not tol­er­at­ing speed­ing.

Con­sta­ble Brent Bat­son, co-or­di­na­tor of the Road Safe­ty Project, in a tele­phone in­ter­view al­so said there was no law al­low­ing po­lice to dri­ve in ex­cess of the speed lim­it but he be­lieved there was a High Court judg­ment that gave of­fi­cers lee­way.

Bat­son ad­mit­ted his mem­o­ry of the case was not the best but he be­lieved the judg­ment al­lowed for of­fi­cers, in the pur­suit of their du­ties, to dri­ve in ex­cess of 80 kilo­me­tres as well as dri­ve on the shoul­der of the high­ways.

Dur­ing last week's me­dia brief­ing, com­mu­ni­ca­tion man­ag­er of the Po­lice Ser­vice Ellen Lewis said po­lice of­fi­cers were al­lowed, in the ex­e­cu­tion of their du­ties in po­lice ve­hi­cles, to dri­ve be­yond the speed lim­it.

She added that civil­ians could dri­ve a max­i­mum of two kilo­me­tres above their ve­hi­cle pre­scribed lim­it with­out in­cur­ring a $1,000 tick­et.


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