A fe­male se­cu­ri­ty guard at­tached to a pri­vate com­pa­ny in Wood­brook is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate to­mor­row, charged with neg­li­gence af­ter she mis­placed her work-is­sued firearm whilst on du­ty.

Up to yes­ter­day, the 41-year-old woman, of Belle Eau Road, Bel­mont, re­mained in po­lice cus­tody.

The woman re­port­ed­ly told of­fi­cers that up­on as­sum­ing du­ty Fri­day night, she took pos­ses­sion of the Glock pis­tol and 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and left on a pa­trol in the Wood­brook area be­fore re­turn­ing to the of­fice.

Of­fi­cers heard that some­time lat­er, the woman re­turned and went to use the wash­room. How­ev­er, it was not un­til 6 am yes­ter­day, as she pre­pared the hand over her shift, that she re­alised the gun and am­mu­ni­tion was miss­ing. Search­es of the wash­room and sur­round­ing ar­eas, as well as the ve­hi­cle the woman used, did not turn up the weapon.

A re­port was lat­er made to the Wood­brook Po­lice Sta­tion, where it was de­cid­ed that of­fi­cers of the Ma­jor Crimes Unit at the Wood­brook CID would take over the mat­ter.

Led by In­sp An­dre Lopez and Sgt Bran­don Dan­ny, WPC Coop­er be­gan con­duct­ing in­quiries which be­gan with a vis­it to the woman’s of­fice where in­ter­views were con­duct­ed.

The fe­male of­fi­cer was lat­er ar­rest­ed af­ter she said she may have left it on the toi­let tank in the wash­room. She is to be charged with crim­i­nal neg­li­gence.