Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed (GML) has ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment in the fail­ure of po­lice of­fi­cers both the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice and the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion to take ac­tion in con­nec­tion with the con­stant van­dal­ism of one of its elec­tron­ic bill­boards lo­cat­ed in the heart of the bor­ough over the past three months.

The lat­est at­tack oc­curred on Mon­day at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 8 am, where ac­cord­ing to a GML’s Head of Op­er­a­tions, An­tho­ny See­gob­in, the pow­er to the Point Fortin Bill­board was cut.

“Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed was in­formed by a T&TEC rep­re­sen­ta­tive who was in the area that there was a fire and the elec­tric­i­ty me­ter was miss­ing.

“GML tech­ni­cians vis­it­ed the Point Fortin bill­board site and con­firmed the elec­tric­i­ty me­ter was miss­ing and ev­i­dence of a fire oc­cur­ring, re­sult­ing in dam­age to the earth­ing ca­ble and elec­tric­i­ty me­ter cov­er. Se­cu­ri­ty footage from the bill­board sur­veil­lance cam­eras was ex­tract­ed and re­viewed,” See­gob­in said.

See­gob­in said the com­pa­ny is con­cerned about what he called the in­ac­tion of po­lice of­fi­cers, as it is al­leged that the iden­ti­ty of the sus­pect is known both by po­lice and res­i­dents.

He said the com­pa­ny is los­ing thou­sands of dol­lars every time the prop­er­ty is van­dalised.

See­gob­in said on Mon­day at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 12.30 pm, a third re­port was lodged at the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion on the in­ci­dent. How­ev­er, no re­ceipt was giv­en to the com­pa­ny’s of­fi­cial who made the re­port.

Al­though the po­lice claimed of­fi­cers have not re­ceived any re­ports about the in­ci­dents, GML has pro­duced of­fi­cial re­ceipts bear­ing the stamp of the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion.

GML is now ap­peal­ing to se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers to in­ter­vene and have the al­leged sus­pect ar­rest­ed soon.