The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) says it was a of­fi­cer as­signed to the Tran­sit Po­lice Unit who is­sued a tick­et to a man, who was tak­ing his preg­nant wife to hos­pi­tal for emer­gency treat­ment, for us­ing the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route il­le­gal­ly.

Man­ag­er of Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the TTPS Ellen Lewis, said on Thurs­day it was not an of­fi­cer of the TTPS who is­sued a ci­ta­tion.

"Just a note of cor­rec­tion where ap­plic­a­ble -I'm sure mem­bers of the me­dia are aware that it was not an of­fi­cer of the TTPS who is­sued a ci­ta­tion to the preg­nant young la­dy on the PBR but rather a tran­sit of­fi­cer falling un­der the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty," Lewis not­ed.

The PBR is po­liced by the Min­istry of Trans­port and not the TTPS.

The po­lice, how­ev­er, from time to time con­duct ex­er­cis­es on the PBR.

Of­fi­cers of the TTPS as a norm have es­cort­ed/ac­com­pa­nied /ren­dered as­sis­tance to peo­ple in dif­fer­ent forms of med­ical dis­tress to hos­pi­tal.

There is al­so aPri­or­i­ty Bus Route Unit was es­tab­lished in an at­tempt to reg­u­late and main­tain the use of the PBR . The unit has its ori­gins in the Traf­fic Man­age­ment Branch of the Min­istr of Works and Trans­port.

It has since de­vel­oped in­to an in­de­pen­dent unit which falls un­der the purview of the Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary of the min­istry.