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  • 2 years ago
The stopping of an Ambulance in Tobago by licensing officers during exercises throughout Tobago, is at this time being investigated.

Licensing officers from Trinidad have been in Tobago since last week conducting traffic exercises throughout the island. Over two hundred traffic tickets were issued, four people arrested and twelve disqualified from driving. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.
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00:00THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine confirmed that an investigation is underway when asked
00:06to comment on the matter by TV6 News.
00:09One upset citizen took to social media to air his view on the matter as the ambulance
00:15was en route to the Scarborough General Hospital on Monday morning.
00:19The social media poster said, to the group of licensed officers in the Lowlands area
00:25that stopped an ambulance while transporting a critically ill patient with lights and sirens
00:31to the hospital.
00:32You all are a bunch of morons and I pray none of you will ever need an ambulance."
00:40TV6 News contacted and asked the Chief Secretary Farley Augustine to comment on the matter.
00:47Mr Augustine stated to TV6 News,
00:49This is a concerning development and I am investigating the matter as we speak.
00:55There are protocols governing emergency vehicles and their operations and except if there is
01:02credible intelligence that suggests that an emergency vehicle is part of illicit activity,
01:09they really shouldn't be stopped while on duty.
01:12The matter will be investigated.
01:15Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
01:19For more information visit www.fema.gov
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