DCP In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Suzette Mar­tin re­mained on the job up to yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, one day af­ter it was an­nounced that a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of crim­i­nal con­duct against her was un­der­way.

This was con­firmed by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro as he con­clud­ed a me­dia brief­ing at the Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port.

On Mon­day, Gue­var­ro said the en­quiry arose from her ar­rest of firearms deal­er and train­er Brent Thomas in Bar­ba­dos in Oc­to­ber 2022.

Thomas—then 61—was ar­rest­ed by a team of of­fi­cers of the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) then head­ed by Mar­tin.

Guardian Me­dia had asked then if hav­ing Mar­tin still on ac­tive du­ty could af­fect the in­tegri­ty of the probe, how­ev­er, Gue­var­ro main­tained that the sus­pen­sion of any po­lice of­fi­cer was square­ly with­in the re­mit of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC).

When asked again yes­ter­day, Gue­var­ro said the sit­u­a­tion re­mained the same and de­ferred any fur­ther ques­tions to the PolSC.

“All I will be able to tell you is that at this point in time Ms Mar­tin is on ac­tive du­ty and that the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion is the per­son, or the en­ti­ty or the or­gan­i­sa­tion you should be di­rect­ing those ques­tions to. Thank you so much.”

Gue­var­ro had said the en­quiry was launched af­ter Thomas felt his treat­ment was bor­der­ing on crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

In 2023, High Court Judge, Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad was crit­i­cal of Thomas’ ar­rest, de­scrib­ing it as an ab­duc­tion.

Guardian Me­dia sent an email to the PolSC’s cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions of­fi­cer yes­ter­day seek­ing an up­date on whether Mar­tin would be sus­pend­ed and whether there were con­cerns over the qual­i­ty of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion if she re­mained on ac­tive du­ty, but did not re­ceive a re­sponse up to news time.

Ques­tions were al­so sent to the Pres­i­dent of the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) act­ing ASP Gideon Dick­son, but no re­sponse was re­ceived.