Rhon­dor Dowlat-Ros­tant

Two se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers from the Roy­al Bar­ba­dos Po­lice Force, who ar­rived in the coun­try on Tues­day have been sworn in as Spe­cial Re­serve Of­fi­cers and are ex­pect­ed to hit the ground run­ning in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions as soon as their COVID-19 re­sults are in.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice source, the of­fi­cers are ex­pect­ed to re­ceive their re­sults to­day and once they’re neg­a­tive they will go straight to work.

The of­fi­cers are here to com­mence in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the Drugs Sou- Sou (DSS) mat­ter, where $22 mil­lion in cash was seized from the ad­min­is­tra­tors at a house in La Hor­quet­ta last month and then re­turned by of­fi­cers of the La Hor­quet­ta Po­lice Sta­tion.

Their in­volve­ment in the case came af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said he would en­list the help of for­eign in­ves­ti­ga­tors to probe the mat­ter giv­en what he termed cor­rup­tion in the lo­cal po­lice ser­vice.

The of­fi­cers ar­rived in T&T at about 3 pm on Tues­day and are cur­rent­ly stay­ing in a ho­tel in Port-of-Spain.

One of­fi­cer holds the rank of in­spec­tor and the oth­er is a su­per­in­ten­dent.

Last Thurs­day the prime min­is­ter said he asked the British and Bar­ba­dos gov­ern­ments for help with in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the DSS raid.

Row­ley said the roles of the po­lice, the De­fence Force and crim­i­nal gangs in that in­ci­dent were mat­ters of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

There is still no word yet on when British in­ves­ti­ga­tors will ar­rive to join in in the probe.