00:00The investigation is ongoing. We will submit our files to the DPP for advice and a steady way forward.
00:09Senior Superintendent of Police Earl Elie told TV6 News a number of charges can be laid in the matter.
00:16Well, anytime somebody is keeping you against your will in any location,
00:22we look at offences of possible forced imprisonment and other offences.
00:28So that's why we'll be approaching the DPP for advice.
00:31But I want to strongly encourage persons, especially me, who would have submitted their elderly to these homes,
00:38to please pay attention to them. Don't take it for granted that they are being treated fairly.
00:43Officer Elie told TV6 News other elderly homes in Tobago are being looked at.
00:49Our attention will not just remain focused on this home alone, but we'll be looking at all the other homes for the age
00:55to identify if there are cases similar to this one that needs our investigation.
01:02I would love to see those perpetrators prosecuted to the full point of the law
01:07and those homes shut down. As a matter of fact, if I had my will, I shut down that home weeks ago.
01:13Elie said this month-long investigation by officers in Tobago is far from finished.
01:20An officer has been assigned to do investigations into the report.
01:26Let me tell you, the investigation is ongoing. It's far from finished.
01:30Our intention is to use every portion of the law that is available to us
01:38to bring some kind of justice to these elderly citizens who are allegedly abused.
01:43Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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