The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that of­fi­cers seen in a vi­ral video trans­port­ing a young woman to her grad­u­a­tion in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle act­ed law­ful­ly and with prop­er au­tho­ri­sa­tion.

An in­ter­nal re­view, led by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er Wayne Mys­tar, found that the of­fi­cers had re­ceived per­mis­sion from their sta­tion’s com­mand­ing of­fi­cer be­fore car­ry­ing out the es­cort.

In a me­dia re­lease, the TTPS said: “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 clar­i­fi­ca­tion comes more than two weeks af­ter pub­lic crit­i­cism sur­faced over footage show­ing po­lice ve­hi­cle PEJ 379 be­ing used in what ap­peared to be a non-of­fi­cial ca­pac­i­ty in the South­ern Di­vi­sion.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro ini­tial­ly re­spond­ed by re­quest­ing for­mal re­ports on the in­ci­dent and urg­ing the pub­lic to al­low the in­ter­nal process to run its course. He al­so com­mend­ed mem­bers of the pub­lic who raised con­cerns, de­scrib­ing civic vig­i­lance as es­sen­tial to up­hold­ing in­tegri­ty with­in the TTPS.

“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,” the re­lease con­tin­ued.

Com­mis­sion­er Gue­var­ro has since re­viewed the mat­ter and con­clud­ed that the of­fi­cers act­ed with­in the pa­ra­me­ters of the law and demon­strat­ed pro­fes­sion­al in­tegri­ty. He fur­ther com­mend­ed them for serv­ing as am­bas­sadors of the TTPS, high­light­ing their ini­tia­tive, re­spect, and com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty-based polic­ing.

The TTPS re­it­er­at­ed its com­mit­ment to bal­anc­ing op­er­a­tional re­spon­si­bil­i­ties with mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment as part of its wider mis­sion to build pub­lic trust.