A 35-year-old man is to be charged with the murder of Police Constable Krishna Banahar, who was killed in the line of duty on November 6th. Meantime, Minister in charge of Policing, Keith Scotland, is advising PC Banahar's family that compensation is available. Rynessa Cutting reports.
00:00Old man is to be charged with the murder of police constable Krishna Banahar who was killed in the line of duty on November 6th
00:07Meantime minister in charge of policing Keith Scotland is advising PC Banahar's family that compensation is available
00:14Vanessa cutting reports
00:17Six days after he was killed and three days after he was laid to rest
00:21PC Banahar's family is one step closer to securing justice for his death
00:26Homicide South
00:28investigators had an audience with the director of public prosecution
00:31Where they received instructions to charge a 35-year-old male suspect of the guapo district for the murder of police constable
00:40Krishna Banahar who was shot and killed on a police
00:45operation in the guapo district on Wednesday the 6th of November
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00:52The suspect is also facing charges for possession of a firearm and ammunition
00:57Banahar who was 25 years old have been employed with the police service for four years
01:02When he was fatally shot during a police exercise in guapo during which a suspect was also killed
01:09Minister with responsibility for policing Keith Scotland wants the Banahar family to know that while nothing could replace his life
01:18Compensation is available
01:20Although it may not be in the amount of 1 million dollars
01:23I am not aware what came of that policy, but I am aware and I can state categorically
01:30that the Protective Services
01:33Compensation Board is
01:35operational and
01:37the estate of the deceased officer is advised to
01:43Certainly inquire into that and it is situated at the
01:50third floor
01:52Temple Court Ministry of National Security on Abercrombie Street Portispeak
01:58Minister Scotland describes the compensation process as seamless but notes that it is a time-sensitive issue
02:05The application is made
02:07It is good be before the board I think which sits either on a Tuesday or Thursday and
02:15the
02:16certainly
02:18Compensation is awarded
02:21According to the nature of what transpired and it is really a seamless process
02:28But I also think that time is of the essence in that you must make the claim in a timely fashion
02:35I I would hope that within three months that claim ought to be made
02:40Minister Scotland also confirms that compensation is available to officers who are injured in the line of duty
02:47Vanessa cutting TV 6 News
02:51News just in police have charged 35 year old
02:55One's a Kibwe Joseph from Gonzales village Guapo for the murder of PC Krishna Banahar
03:01Earlier today after instructions were handed down by the DPP Roger Gaspard
03:05Joseph is also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition
03:09The shooting death of the other man who is Joseph's relative is still engaging the attention of the DPP
03:17Woman police constable Kiana Mahabir has been discharged from hospital
03:21Police say the 30-year-old officers recovering well and is now surrounded by family and loved ones
03:27WPC Mahabir was shot in the head and chest on October 22nd outside her home on Hydraulic Road in Kearney
03:35Mahabir was part of an all-female contingent
03:38Representing the Trinidad and Tobago police to respond in the Bahamas and the US and had just returned to the country when the incident occurred
03:46police believe they may have
03:48Identified the suspect in the incident as other robberies in the Central Division had suspects matching the descriptions given in Mahabir's shooting
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