The Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the al­leged ab­duc­tion of a hair­dress­er by a fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer, which stemmed from a re­port­ed love tri­an­gle.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia that the hair­dress­er was al­leged­ly ab­duct­ed, as­sault­ed, drugged and kept in an undis­closed lo­ca­tion in Ma­tu­ri­ta. How­ev­er, she was even­tu­al­ly res­cued by garbage col­lec­tors work­ing in the area.

Po­lice re­vealed the hair­dress­er was said to be in an in­ti­mate re­la­tion­ship with a man, who al­so has a re­la­tion­ship with a fe­male po­lice of­fi­cer.

It is al­leged, how­ev­er, that the fe­male of­fi­cer learned of the man’s re­la­tion­ship with the hair­dress­er.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said up­on learn­ing of the re­la­tion­ship the hair­dress­er had with the man, the fe­male of­fi­cer, along with two rel­a­tives—one of them a se­nior of­fi­cer with the TTPS —al­leged­ly tricked the woman in­to ac­cept­ing a pri­vate hair­dress­ing job.

When the trio picked up the hair­dress­er, she was tak­en to an undis­closed lo­ca­tion where she was al­leged­ly beat­en, drugged and held cap­tive.

The woman’s screams were, how­ev­er, heard by garbage col­lec­tors, who man­aged to free her and took her to the po­lice where the in­ci­dent was re­port­ed. The hair­dress­er was al­so tak­en for med­ical at­ten­tion.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched by a Task Force team and a par­ty of of­fi­cers from the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the fe­male of­fi­cer, her broth­er and her moth­er—said to be an in­spec­tor—were all held and tak­en to the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion for ques­tion­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the in­spec­tor could be charged for per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice, while her daugh­ter and son could face charges in con­nec­tion with kid­nap­ping and a slew of oth­er of­fences.

Guardian Me­dia was told by po­lice sources that col­leagues of the fe­male po­lice of­fi­cers and her rel­a­tives were at­tempt­ing to keep the in­ci­dent out of the pub­lic’s do­main and shield them from me­dia at­ten­tion.

Ef­forts by Guardian Me­dia to get con­fir­ma­tion and ad­di­tion­al in­for­ma­tion from Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc Don­ald Ja­cob and TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer, Sheri­don Hill, were un­suc­cess­ful, as both failed to con­firm, de­ny or give any more de­tails about the mat­ter.