A police corporal who is alleged to have been involved in illegal activities is among persons listed in the latest detention order signed off by Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander.
This comes one day after detention orders were issued for 19 others including gang leaders and several men allegedly responsible for a spate of killings in the country.
00:00A detention order for a police corporal of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service accused of being a gang leader involved in illicit activities was issued last night by Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander.
00:11However, the detention order has not yet been gasseted.
00:15Police sources told TV6 News that the corporal, who once worked in the Southwestern Division, had been transferred to the Barataria Police Station sometime in 2021.
00:25Sources say that the corporal was detained at the Besso Street Police Station in Port of Spain, but was later moved to another location by officers of the Special Intelligence Unit, SIU, to be questioned.
00:34The corporal is then likely to be taken to the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Center, ECRC, where he'll be detained.
00:42Senior police sources told TV6 News that the corporal, in question, had been suspected of operating a contraband ring with other police officers in the Southwestern Division,
00:52which included human trafficking, drug and gun running from Venezuela to Trinidad.
00:57The corporal reported he had a boat and would facilitate contraband with the help of several other police officers.
01:03Sources say since then he purchased two other boats for his illicit trade.
01:07Former Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith told TV6 News that around that time he had received intelligence that several officers from the Southwestern Division
01:15had been involved in illicit activities and often used police vehicles to escort the illicit contraband once it got onto land.
01:23Griffith said that he had suspected that officers in at least four police stations were involved in these illegal activities.
01:30He said he ordered polygraph tests for several of the officers.
01:33However, at least 13 of the 15 officers, when asked whether they had benefited financially from illegal activities,
01:40refused to answer this question under polygraph tests.
01:42While he could not discipline them, he said he was forced to transfer many of them away from beachfronts in the hope of minimizing their activities.
01:51The corporal's arrest comes just 24 hours after authorities issued detention orders for 19 others.
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