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Friday, May 16, 2025

Prison officer held with weed in crotch at MSP

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Rhondor Dowlat
2363 days ago
20181125
Four packets of marijuana that was found in the possession of a prison officer as he attempted to smuggle it into the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca yesterday morning.

Four packets of marijuana that was found in the possession of a prison officer as he attempted to smuggle it into the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca yesterday morning.

A prison of­fi­cer with just over two years’ ser­vice was ar­rest­ed Sun­day af­ter he was caught at­tempt­ing to smug­gle mar­i­jua­na in­to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Arou­ca, in his crotch.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­port, at about 5.54 am dur­ing an­ti-traf­fick­ing ex­er­cise of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered sev­er­al pack­ets of mar­i­jua­na in the of­fi­cer’s pos­ses­sion.

The of­fi­cer was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed and hand­ed over to the of­fi­cers at the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion where he was ex­pect­ed to be charged for the of­fence.

Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Ger­ard Wil­son im­me­di­ate­ly com­mend­ed the of­fi­cers who are as­signed to the Op­er­a­tions and Se­cu­ri­ty De­part­ment and the ex­ec­u­tive for their “tire­less ded­i­ca­tion and vig­i­lance” dur­ing this lat­est seizure of con­tra­band items. He again con­demned the ac­tions of rogue of­fi­cers with­in the ser­vice.

“The counter-traf­fick­ing mea­sures that have been im­ple­ment­ed and en­hanced at the na­tion's pris­ons are for the ben­e­fit and pro­tec­tion of all cit­i­zens,” Wil­son said.

“I would like to as­sure that the prison ser­vice will con­tin­ue to ex­er­cise all vi­able op­tions to en­sure that these un­scrupu­lous of­fi­cers who have no re­gard for their col­leagues, face the full brunt of the law.”

He added, “The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice as­sures mem­bers of the pub­lic that it will con­tin­ue to op­er­ate with due dili­gence and with­out fear or favour and hold its man­date of the pro­tec­tion of so­ci­ety as pri­or­i­ty.”

This was the third in­ci­dent in which an in­di­vid­ual at­tempt­ed to smug­gle mar­i­jua­na in­to the fa­cil­i­ty. Last week a Cen­tral man was held try­ing to smug­gle gan­ja in­to the jail in four ap­ples and the week be­fore that an­oth­er man was nabbed af­ter he tried to pass grape­fruit stuffed with the drub pass se­cu­ri­ty.

Wil­son has since an­nounced that from De­cem­ber 1, vis­i­tors will no longer be al­lowed to take fruits from out­side in­to the prison and will have to pur­chase them from the can­teen

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the lat­est in­ci­dent are con­tin­u­ing.


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