Three po­lice of­fi­cers who helped pre­vent a 14-yer-old girl from jump­ing off the top of the Parkade car park in Port-of-Spain last week, were among 13 of­fi­cers who re­ceived com­men­da­tions from the ex­ec­u­tive of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day for hard work and ded­i­ca­tion.

The of­fi­cers were recog­nised dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing in Port-of-Spain, arranged to high­light three groups of of­fi­cers for their ex­em­plary per­for­mance.

A re­lease said the three of­fi­cers, Cpl (Ag.) George and PCs An­drews and Nanan, were mem­bers of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) “whose de­ci­sive­ness and crit­i­cal think­ing on June 1, 2022, re­sult­ed in a 14-year-old girl’s life be­ing saved from a trag­ic end.”

On June 1, the of­fi­cers were alert­ed to the girl threat­en­ing to jump off the top of the Parkade and made their way to the top floor, where they saw her sit­ting on a rail­ing over­look­ing the street. The mi­nor was be­ing spo­ken to by two con­cerned cit­i­zens at­tempt­ing to lure her away from the ledge.

PC An­drews cau­tious­ly took over those at­tempts, as­sur­ing the girl that her life held val­ue and she would be giv­en any help she need­ed to over­come what­ev­er sit­u­a­tion she faced.

As she kept her at­ten­tion on him, Cpl George cau­tious­ly ap­proached her from be­hind and was able to grab hold of her and bring her to safe­ty.

Acting Cpl George and PCs Andrews and Nanan, who saved a 14-year-old girl from a tragic end on June 1.

She was tak­en to the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion on St Vin­cent Street, where she was in­ter­viewed and tak­en for med­ical treat­ment.

A po­lice state­ment yes­ter­day said they re­ceived high praise from the ex­ec­u­tive and a to­ken of ap­pre­ci­a­tion.

Ten mem­bers of the Spe­cial Branch Unit were al­so ac­knowl­edged for their ex­ten­sive work that re­sult­ed in the his­toric seizure of a large quan­ti­ty of Ke­t­a­mine drug val­ued at over $8 mil­lion on Jan­u­ary 25, 2022.

“It was the first find of its kind in the coun­try and re­sult­ed in one man be­ing charged. CoP (Ag.) Ja­cob, in ad­dress­ing the of­fi­cers, stressed that al­though the work was part of their nor­mal du­ties, there were far-reach­ing pos­i­tive out­comes for the Ser­vice and the coun­try that couldn’t be quan­ti­fied due to the huge im­pact made on transna­tion­al crime,” the state­ment said.

Ja­cob al­so pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to W/Sgt Al­li­son Joseph and Sgts Bri­an Daniel and Er­ic Knutt, in recog­ni­tion of their pro­mo­tion to in­spec­tor rank.

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