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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

SRP quits after ‘racist’ Facebook comment

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News Desk
2349 days ago
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A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) po­lice­woman who got in­to hot wa­ter over an al­leged racist Face­book post said her res­ig­na­tion had noth­ing to do with the is­sue.

A state­ment from TT Po­lice Ser­vice on Thurs­day said the SRP ten­dered her res­ig­na­tion with im­me­di­ate ef­fect on Feb­ru­ary 11, mere days af­ter the in­ci­dent. She was last at­tached to the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion.

The SRP’s com­ment was made on a sto­ry over the loss of a busi­ness place in To­ba­go, which was shared by a Guardian Me­dia jour­nal­ist on her Face­book page on Feb­ru­ary 7. The com­ment stat­ed: “Them peo­ple nasty boi wow..they (sic) re­al­ly say the best In­di­an is a dead one yes..gosh boi dey greedy and nasty.”

Asked if she had any re­grets on Thurs­day, the of­fi­cer, whose name has been with­held, said no.

“I have no re­grets about it be­cause my state­ment was not in­tend­ed to be racist to any­one. I quot­ed an old cliché. It is a say­ing that you would hear any­where, all over the place.”

She added, “My res­ig­na­tion was pend­ing a long time ago. The last time I worked in Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion and re­ceived a salary from the Po­lice Ser­vice was in No­vem­ber 2017, so I nev­er saw the Com­mis­sion­er per­tain­ing to any, as they say, racist, com­ments that I post­ed on Face­book. That nev­er hap­pened. He nev­er called me.

“I feel no way, my con­science is clear. At the end of the day what I’m a bit up­set about is that they said the com­mis­sion­er had to warn me. He nev­er warned me, he nev­er called my phone, I nev­er saw him. For them to say that I re­signed be­cause of a state­ment, that is not true.”

The woman said fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent the Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent To­ba­go in­sist­ed she had to of­fi­cial­ly say if in­tend­ed to stay or go and she wrote her of­fi­cial res­ig­na­tion let­ter.


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