The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice says of­fi­cers seen in a vi­ral video trans­port­ing a young woman to grad­u­a­tion a marked ve­hi­cle act­ed law­ful­ly and with au­tho­ri­sa­tion.

Fol­low­ing an in­ter­nal re­view led by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er Wayne Mys­tar, the TTPS now con­firms the of­fi­cers act­ed with per­mis­sion from their sta­tion’s com­mand­ing of­fi­cer.

“The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the en­gage­ment were con­sis­tent with the TTPS’ Strate­gic Plan 2025–2027, which iden­ti­fies Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner­ships as a foun­da­tion­al strate­gic pil­lar in im­prov­ing pub­lic trust and con­fi­dence,” the re­lease said.

The clar­i­fi­ca­tion comes more than two weeks af­ter Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro first re­spond­ed to pub­lic out­cry over footage show­ing po­lice ve­hi­cle PEJ 379 in what ap­peared to be a non-of­fi­cial set­ting in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

At the time, Gue­var­ro said he had re­quest­ed for­mal re­ports and urged the pub­lic to al­low the in­ves­tiga­tive process to un­fold. He al­so praised cit­i­zens who flagged the in­ci­dent, call­ing civic vig­i­lance es­sen­tial to main­tain­ing in­tegri­ty with­in the Ser­vice.

“These out­reach ef­forts form a crit­i­cal part of the TTPS’ ob­jec­tive to strength­en re­la­tion­ships with com­mu­ni­ties, fos­ter trans­paren­cy and re­in­force le­git­i­ma­cy in law en­force­ment op­er­a­tions. Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, has re­viewed the mat­ter and is sat­is­fied that the of­fi­cers act­ed with­in the pa­ra­me­ters of the law and dis­played pro­fes­sion­al in­tegri­ty. He fur­ther com­mends them for serv­ing as am­bas­sadors of the TTPS, demon­strat­ing ini­tia­tive, re­spect and com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty-based polic­ing.”

The TTPS says it re­mains com­mit­ted to bal­anc­ing op­er­a­tional du­ties with mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment as part of its broad­er ef­fort to build pub­lic trust.