The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has launched an im­me­di­ate in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­leged leak­ing of sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to a re­cent sex­u­al as­sault in­ves­ti­ga­tion against at­tor­ney Mar­tin George.

The move comes in re­sponse to state­ments from the Law As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go re­gard­ing the pur­port­ed re­lease of the com­plainant’s name, im­age, and the con­tents of their state­ment.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, has or­dered an ur­gent probe to de­ter­mine how this con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion en­tered the pub­lic do­main.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion aims to iden­ti­fy and hold ac­count­able any in­di­vid­u­als found re­spon­si­ble for breach­ing le­gal statutes or in­ter­nal po­lice pro­to­cols.

In a state­ment, the TTPS em­pha­sised the clear le­gal frame­work gov­ern­ing sex­u­al of­fence in­ves­ti­ga­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cern­ing the para­mount im­por­tance of pro­tect­ing vic­tims’ iden­ti­ty and pri­va­cy.

The TTPS high­light­ed that the Sex­u­al Of­fences Act and re­lat­ed leg­is­la­tion are specif­i­cal­ly de­signed to shield vic­tims from fur­ther trau­ma and to en­cour­age the re­port­ing of these se­ri­ous crimes.

The TTPS re­it­er­at­ed its un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to up­hold­ing the law, safe­guard­ing vic­tims, and en­sur­ing that all in­ves­ti­ga­tions, es­pe­cial­ly those in­volv­ing sex­u­al of­fens­es, are con­duct­ed with the ut­most con­fi­den­tial­i­ty, pro­fes­sion­al­ism, and sen­si­tiv­i­ty.

The Ser­vice al­so ap­pealed to the pub­lic and me­dia to re­frain from shar­ing or pub­lish­ing any ma­te­r­i­al that could fur­ther ex­pose or harm the com­plainant and to al­low due process to un­fold.