An Ari­ma woman is ex­pect­ed to be charged with forgery and ut­ter­ing a forged doc­u­ment to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) when she ap­plied to be­come a po­lice of­fi­cer sev­en years ago.

Po­lice said the woman ap­plied to join the TTPS in 2018 when she sub­mit­ted sev­er­al doc­u­ments, in­clud­ing her Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) cer­tifi­cates.

How­ev­er, as of­fi­cers re­cent­ly be­gan re­view­ing ap­pli­cants, they no­ticed that there were sev­er­al dis­crep­an­cies in the cer­tifi­cate pro­vid­ed.

A re­port was made, and of­fi­cers of the Fraud Squad be­gan an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mat­ter.

The woman vis­it­ed the Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my, St James, for fi­nal ori­en­ta­tion be­fore en­ter­ing train­ing yes­ter­day, when she was ar­rest­ed by po­lice.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said as part of the en­quiry, cor­re­spon­dence was made with the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, where con­fir­ma­tion was sought on whether the doc­u­ments were valid or forged. The woman is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate to­day. —Shane Su­perville