The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is re­mind­ing cit­i­zens that any breach of a quar­an­tine or­der, car­ries a penal­ty of up to $50,000 in fines or six months’ im­pris­on­ment up­on con­vic­tion.

The re­minder comes as a 34-year-old COVID-19 pos­i­tive pa­tient from Diego Mar­tin, who breached a quar­an­tine or­der, was ex­tract­ed and placed in a State Quar­an­tine Fa­cil­i­ty, on Thurs­day 19th No­vem­ber 2020.

The Po­lice Ser­vice says in­tel­li­gence re­vealed that the pa­tient left his place of or­dered quar­an­tine in the St. An­drew/St. David Coun­ty and fre­quent­ed St. George West Coun­ty where he holds an­oth­er res­i­dence.

Ac­cord­ing to an of­fi­cial state­ment from the TTPS, de­spite a cau­tion from Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer of Health (CMOH) of­fi­cials, the pa­tient breached his quar­an­tine lo­ca­tion on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions.

The op­er­a­tion to ex­tract the pa­tient and get him in­to State Quar­an­tine was co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Wen­dell Williams, the TTPS’ rep­re­sen­ta­tive to the Mul­ti-Sec­toral COVID-19 Com­mit­tee. The op­er­a­tion al­so in­clud­ed mem­bers of the Cen­tral In­tel­li­gence Bu­reau, Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) and Min­istry of Health of­fi­cials, un­der the guid­ance Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer of Health, Dr. Roshan Paras­ram.

This op­er­a­tion led to the suc­cess­ful ex­trac­tion of the pa­tient by plac­ing him in­to the State Quar­an­tine fa­cil­i­ty to com­plete his re­main­ing quar­an­tine pe­ri­od.