In­ves­ti­ga­tors are cur­rent­ly re­ceiv­ing in­tel­li­gence on sev­er­al oth­er po­lice of­fi­cers from the Port-of-Spain and North East­ern Di­vi­sion who are said to be al­leged­ly linked to gang mem­bers and gang ac­tiv­i­ties.

This new in­for­ma­tion sur­faced dur­ing the in­ter­ro­ga­tion of three po­lice of­fi­cers, cur­rent­ly in po­lice cus­tody for al­leged­ly help­ing crim­i­nal gangs.

A se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer said that the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volv­ing the three in cus­tody are “at a sen­si­tive stage.” Charges are ex­pect­ed to be laid lat­er this week.

Po­lice sources told Guardian Me­dia that oth­er po­lice of­fi­cers were be­ing close­ly mon­i­tored and strong­ly be­lieved to be linked to the drug and guns trade es­pe­cial­ly along the north coast.

It is be­lieved that the of­fi­cers in ques­tion al­leged­ly have strong links with a gang leader from the Port-of-Spain area and a drug lord from North Trinidad.

On Sun­day, a third po­lice of­fi­cer was held. The of­fi­cer is cur­rent­ly sus­pend­ed from du­ty on charges of com­mon as­sault.

That of­fi­cer joined two oth­ers in cus­tody, one of whom is close­ly re­lat­ed to the for­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Stephen Williams. Those two of­fi­cers were de­tained on Fri­day.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that of­fi­cers of the Or­gan­ised Crime and In­tel­li­gence Unit (OCIU) sub­mit­ted a file to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on Sun­day but were in­struct­ed to re-in­ter­view the ex-com­mis­sion­er’s rel­a­tive be­fore seek­ing fur­ther in­struc­tions.

On Sun­day Williams’ rel­a­tive and a 39-year-old po­lice con­sta­ble were ar­rest­ed by the OCIU at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, short­ly af­ter they re­turned from the Tu­na­puna Mag­is­trates’ Court.

The lock­ers of both of­fi­cers were searched, their cell­phones seized and their homes lat­er searched.

The ar­rests come af­ter months of sur­veil­lance of sev­er­al po­lice of­fi­cers sus­pect­ed of fa­cil­i­tat­ing gang ac­tiv­i­ty, in­clud­ing the trans­porta­tion of nar­cotics and oth­er con­tra­band across the coun­try.