Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter

sascha.wil­son@guardian.co.tt

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day said an In­ter­pol Red No­tice has been is­sued for a fourth sus­pect in the con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mur­der of act­ing cor­po­ral Anus­ka Ever­s­ley and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion. He said the sus­pect may have fled the ju­ris­dic­tion.

Ever­s­ley was dis­cov­ered mur­dered in­side the po­lice sta­tion on April 19, and over 100 firearms and am­mu­ni­tion were found miss­ing. Po­lice have since re­cov­ered 44 firearms and more than 900 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Asked for an up­date on the firearms au­dit that was un­der­tak­en fol­low­ing Ever­s­ley’s mur­der, Gue­var­ro said, “It’s a very large-scale project. Gen­er­al­ly, they are about 50 to 55 per cent com­plete at this time.”

But even as an in­ter­na­tion­al man­hunt is un­der­way for a fourth sus­pect in the case, some of her col­leagues are still re­ceiv­ing coun­selling.

Se­nior Supt Wayne Mo­hammed, who took charge of the sta­tion fol­low­ing the sus­pen­sion of Snr Supt Dun­stan Renn fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent, yes­ter­day said he has been work­ing close­ly with the of­fi­cers, the San Fer­nan­do May­or and CEO, the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty and oth­er stake­hold­ers to re­store sta­bil­i­ty and im­prove con­di­tions at the sta­tion.

He said the sta­tion’s strength has not yet re­turned to full ca­pac­i­ty, as some of­fi­cers re­main on sick leave. De­spite the man­pow­er chal­lenges, Mo­hammed said op­er­a­tions are con­tin­u­ing and of­fi­cers are mak­ing every ef­fort to en­sure the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of burgess­es in the south­ern city.

Mo­hammed al­so as­sured that there will be prop­er ac­count­abil­i­ty and su­per­vi­sion of the of­fi­cers, with no room for com­pla­cen­cy. He re­vealed that a sergeant will be as­signed to each shift.

Mo­hammed said Ever­s­ley’s col­leagues re­ceived coun­selling from the TTPS Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit, while the Con­sol­i­dat­ed As­so­ci­a­tion of Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice al­so held a wor­ship ses­sion and pro­vid­ed sup­port for of­fi­cers in the wake of her killing. He added that the Greater San Fer­nan­do Area Cham­ber and the San Fer­nan­do Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion have al­so been of­fer­ing sup­port.

With ten gal­lons of paint do­nat­ed by San Fer­nan­do Busi­ness As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Daphne Bartlett, he said cor­po­ra­tion work­ers are ex­pect­ed to be­gin re­paint­ing the in­te­ri­or of the sta­tion in an ef­fort to up­lift the at­mos­phere and boost morale. He said T&TEC al­so con­duct­ed a site vis­it and agreed to in­stall prop­er light­ing at the sta­tion.

On April 28, three men, Ever­s­ley’s col­league, Con­sta­ble Ji­van “Big­gs” Coop­er, Kwame Arnold, 20, and Nicholas “Nico” Ram­dass, all of Clax­ton Bay, ap­peared in court charged with four of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der, pos­ses­sion of firearms, pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion and rob­bing Ever­s­ley of 114 pis­tols, one re­volver, six shot­guns, two MPX sub­ma­chine guns, 173 firearm mag­a­zines, 4,355 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, 30 rounds of 12-gauge am­mu­ni­tion and ten rounds of .38 am­mu­ni­tion.