The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is be­ing ac­cused of tar­get­ing na­tion­al award re­cip­i­ent Ter­rance David, fol­low­ing an ear­ly morn­ing raid at his Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain home yes­ter­day.

David, 43, of Pro­duc­tion Av­enue, claimed of­fi­cers de­lib­er­ate­ly abused their au­thor­i­ty and dam­aged his prop­er­ty dur­ing the 30-minute search, which be­gan around 4.30 am.

David, along with an­oth­er Sea Lots res­i­dent, De­shawn Hamil­ton, was award­ed the Hum­ming­bird Medal Bronze dur­ing this year’s Re­pub­lic Day Na­tion­al Awards Cer­e­mo­ny for an act of gal­lantry.

The two res­cued a po­lice of­fi­cer from a burn­ing wreck on Sep­tem­ber 5, 2024, af­ter his ve­hi­cle crashed and burst in­to flames on the Beetham High­way, near Sea Lots.

Ter­rance and Hamil­ton were on their way to work and stopped to ren­der as­sis­tance af­ter their calls to the po­lice for help went unan­swered.

But yes­ter­day, David ad­mit­ted to feel­ing de­ject­ed af­ter of­fi­cers, some of whom were dressed in cam­ou­flage uni­forms, en­tered his mod­est apart­ment, which is on the top floor of his moth­er’s house, with­out a war­rant.

“They tell me they don’t need one as we un­der a SoE,” David said.

“I didn’t put up a fight or ar­gue. I just let them in and watched them search every­thing... they turned up my house and the on­ly thing I beg them not to do is in­ter­fere with my gyp­sum ceil­ing.”

He claimed of­fi­cers even brought in a snif­fer dog.

“They ain’t find noth­ing il­le­gal by me. But when they was walk­ing out, one man de­lib­er­ate­ly pulled the string for my TV and it fall and mash up,” he claimed.

“I kept ask­ing the of­fi­cers not to dam­age my prop­er­ty... I ain’t mind them look­ing for noth­ing cause they claim they act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, but they ain’t find noth­ing.”

He said the of­fi­cers who searched his prop­er­ty were wear­ing body cam­eras, but he is un­cer­tain if they record­ed the en­tire ex­er­cise.

David said it was on­ly his apart­ment that was searched.

He has called for an­swers on why he was sin­gled out. He al­so want­ed to know who will re­place his 40-inch flat-screen tele­vi­sion, which he said he pur­chased for ap­prox­i­mate­ly $2,000 sev­er­al years ago.

“The of­fi­cer did it for spite... and it hurt­ing me cause I work hard to buy my things. I not work­ing right now and I does be in­side watch­ing my TV. How am I sup­posed to func­tion now?”

The TTPS was con­tact­ed on the mat­ter but a re­sponse was not re­ceived up to yes­ter­day evening.