Rhon­dor Dowlat

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice is now in­ves­ti­gat­ing one of its own, af­ter a pho­to sur­faced on so­cial me­dia over the week­end of a woman hold­ing what ap­pears to be a gun near the head of a ba­by al­so in her arms.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, the TTPS con­firmed the woman in the pho­to was a mem­ber of the ser­vice and that the act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice had since or­dered the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau to start an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

“The pub­lic will be up­dat­ed on the out­come of said in­ves­ti­ga­tion when com­plet­ed,” the re­lease added.

The pho­to drew scathing crit­i­cism from some on so­cial me­dia, since the woman seemed to be hold­ing it close to the child’s mouth. How­ev­er, close friends of the woman seen pos­ing in a pic­ture yes­ter­day came to her de­fence, say­ing they be­lieve the pho­to was ma­li­cious­ly post­ed on­to so­cial me­dia. One of the woman’s friends, who did not want to be iden­ti­fied, said the pho­to was tak­en about ten years ago be­fore the woman was en­rolled in­to the TTPS. She said she be­lieved the im­age was post­ed in an at­tempt to dis­cred­it the woman’s ac­tions and “de­stroy her char­ac­ter.”

An­oth­er close friend de­scribed her as an am­bi­tious young la­dy.

“That’s my girl…some peo­ple could be so WICKED…But God is good! She’s one of the most am­bi­tious young ladies I know. Peo­ple just like to talk what they don’t know.”

The T&T Guardian un­der­stands a man the woman knew very well at the time took the pho­to. It is al­leged the man is a al­so po­lice of­fi­cer and the gun be­longed to him.