SASCHA WIL­SON

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

A fe­male Mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer was al­leged­ly in­de­cent­ly as­sault­ed by a male of­fi­cer while on du­ty at the Cap-de-Ville Po­lice Post over the week­end. But, now her col­leagues are con­cerned that a se­nior of­fi­cer is try­ing to cov­er up the re­port.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice sources, the fe­male of­fi­cer re­port­ed that around 6.30 pm on Sat­ur­day she was alone at the po­lice post at Point Fortin when a po­lice con­sta­ble from the Point Fortin Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Task Force ar­rived and in­di­cat­ed that he want­ed to use the wash­room. In­stead, he re­port­ed­ly be­gan mak­ing sex­u­al over­tures to­wards her. She told him that he has a wife and she was not in­ter­est­ed.

But, he re­port­ed­ly con­tin­ued mak­ing vul­gar ut­ter­ances to her.

Po­lice sources with knowl­edge of the re­port said the Task Force of­fi­cer then walked up to the of­fi­cer who was sit­ting and placed his hands on her shoul­ders. De­spite her protests for him to stop touch­ing her, he al­leged­ly be­gan pass­ing his hand up and down her leg.

The of­fi­cer pushed him away and walked off as she again in­sist­ed that he re­frain from touch­ing her. Short­ly af­ter her col­leagues - a male and fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer ar­rived at the post. She told her col­leagues what had tran­spired and a re­port was lodged in the sta­tion di­ary.

How­ev­er, a po­lice source said a se­nior of­fi­cer gave in­struc­tions to his charges not to send the re­port to San Fer­nan­do Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre.

“This is not right. Why was that re­port was made? This is very se­ri­ous and could amount to per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice,” the po­lice source said.

They are call­ing for an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the con­duct of the se­nior of­fi­cer as well as the oth­er of­fi­cer who act­ed in­ap­pro­pri­ate­ly.