Two broth­ers, who are both po­lice con­sta­bles will ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain mag­is­trate on Thurs­day charged for mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

The charges stemmed from an in­ci­dent that oc­curred on March 18 2018 where a 30-year-old watch­man em­ployed with the POS City Cor­po­ra­tion was at Trust Mart Gro­cery West­ern Main Road, St James when he was con­front­ed by two po­lice of­fi­cers who as­sault­ed and abused him.

The vic­tim in­formed them that he was go­ing to re­port them and left and went to the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion in Port-of-Spain.

The of­fi­cers fol­lowed him to the sta­tion and while the vic­tim was mak­ing his re­port the two of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed him.

He was kept in cus­tody and on the fol­low­ing day March 19, 2018 he was pros­e­cut­ed by one of the po­lice of­fi­cers for the of­fences of ob­scene lan­guage, re­sist­ing ar­rest and as­sault­ing the po­lice in the ex­e­cu­tion of their du­ty.

The Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB) con­duct­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions and on Oc­to­ber 7 2019 they ar­rest­ed both of­fi­cers - one who is 26 years of age with five years ser­vice as­signed to the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit West­ern Di­vi­sion and the oth­er, who is 24 years old with four years ser­vice as­signed to the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

Both are broth­ers and re­side at 24 Cas­cade Road, Cas­cade.

On Oc­to­ber 9 2019 DPP Roger Gas­pard SC gave ad­vice and Cpl Lawrence Joe­field pros­e­cut­ed both of­fi­cers joint­ly for the of­fence of mis­be­vav­iour in pub­lic of­fice. The charges that were pre­vi­ous­ly ini­ti­at­ed against the vic­tim on March 19 2018 will be dis­con­tin­ued by the DPP.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by ACP To­taram Dookhie, as­sist­ed by Supt An­tho­ny Re­my, In­sp Sheri­don Hill, Cpl Paul Mo­hammed and PC Ian Mitchell.