Piracy, but not with Captain Jack Sparrow…

21 May 2011 Leave a Comment

A stereotypical caricature of a pirate.

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I knew this was coming. piracy on the high seas. The Caribbean has been too quiet for too long.

Flag of the International Maritime Organization.

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Follow this link to the BBC article reporting on the International Maritime Organisation (IMO)  stating they agree that civilian ships need to carry armed teams for protection from pirates but what is interesting is the areas that are under threat.

Everyone associates this threat with Somalia but look closely in the report and you will see that a number of other areas have been targeted. including the Caribbean.

Unfortunately people wont take this threat serious until a disaster happens. A life will be lost or a massive ecological disaster will happen because of an attack on shipping.

Then what?

It’s too late…

Anyway, here is the report and don’t forget that you can call upon C.P.D.M.S. Ltd to help you organize, train or deploy ship protection teams

The Report

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Is Commissioner Gibbs on his way out?

18 March 2011 Leave a Comment

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Are the Americans coming? or is it just that the Governement have NO TRUST in the man THEY selected for the Commissioner of Police?

As you will see it really really undermines the local Police Force which is now wondering if they have a job? If Government want to call in outside professional help for a domestic murder they must think the Trinidad & Tobago Police Service (TTPS) can not do the job themselves!

This report is in todays Newsday Newspaper:

FBI called in

By NALINEE SEELAL Friday, March 18 2011

AMERICA’S top notch, elite investigative unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), will take over the probe into the death of eight-year-old Gasparillo schoolboy Daniel Guerra, following a request from Government.

Negotiations to have FBI officers flown in is being made through the American Embassy at Marli Street, Port-of-Spain. Yesterday, Marcie Friedman, the Embassy’s Public Affairs Officer, said: “We have an ongoing partnership with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago on such issues as security and law enforcement. For details regarding this case, you should contact the Government of Trinidad and Tobago directly.” Efforts to reach Minister of National Security Brigadier John Sandy on the matter proved futile.

The American Embassy was also instrumental in securing the services of forensic pathologist James Gill, who carried out the third autopsy on the body of Guerra on February 28 at the San Fernando General Hospital mortuary.

Sources revealed that Gill’s comprehensive report on how Guerra died will be passed on to FBI officers assigned to the case. Today marks exactly one month since Guerra disappeared from his Bedeau Street, Gasparillo home. Newsday understands the Ministry of National Security made contact with the American Embassy a few days ago to have the FBI officers take over the case. Up to yesterday, everything appeared to be in place for the arrival of the special agents from the elite agency.

When the FBI officers arrive they will be briefed by Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs and Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Homicide Bureau David Nedd. The FBI agents will work closely with lead investigator Sgt Parriman and other Homicide officers who have been probing the child’s death.

They will also be privy to a report by officers of the Special Anti Crime Unit (SAUTT) who carried out an examination at the crime scene where Guerra’s body was found. Newsday also learnt that the FBI officers will return to the crime scene, re-interview persons who were interviewed by local officers and dialogue with forensic pathologists Dr Eastlyn McDonald Burris, Dr Valery Alexandrov and Professor of Pathology Dr Hubert Daisley.

Up to yesterday no one was detained in connection with Guerra’s death, and sources revealed that a file has been sent to ACP Homicide David Nedd, which is expected to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard for his directions in the case.

On Wednesday Randolph Indarsingh, the grandfather of Guerra held a press briefing at his Gasparillo home to make a plea to government to retain the services of foreign experts to solve the death of the child.

The first autopsy carried out revealed Guerra died by drowning, while a second autopsy cited asphyxia along with blunt force trauma to the chest as causes of death. The third autopsy, done by American pathologist Gill pointed to homicidal asphyxia.

Up to yesterday the Homicide Bureau had not yet classified the death of Guerra, and Senior Superintendent Wayne Dick, the head of the Homicide Bureau, noted that investigations are continuing apace.

Guerra went missing on February 18 when he left his home to go to a nearby mini mart to purchase two energy drinks and a garbage bag. When he failed to return home, a report was made to the Gasparillo police and searches carried out for the boy proved futile.

On February 20 the boys body was found in a watercourse at Tarouba, and was identified by his grandfather Randolph. However, it was not until February 22 that the first autopsy was carried out.

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Ann Marie Bissessar reveals how technology impedes money laundering regulations

9 February 2011 Leave a Comment

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I don’t usually do this but I am copying and pasting an advert from the UWI here in Trinidad.
they have just published details of a lecture which is taking place tomorrow and i feel it should have wide participation from the public.

here are the details straight from their facebook pages;

Ann Marie Bissessar reveals how technology impedes money laundering regulations

Right on the heels of its first Professorial Inaugural Lecture of 2011, the St. Augustine Campus of The University of the West Indies (UWI), will host the second on Thursday 10th February – delivered by Professor Ann Marie Bissessar, Head of the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Professor of Government at The University. Professor Bissessar’s lecture, carded for 5.30pm, at the Faculty of Engineering, UWI, St. Augustine, is titled “Regulation, the Regulatory State, Agency and Autonomy: The Case of Anti-Money Laundering Regulation in a Small State.”

In her lecture, Professor Bissessar will seek to fill the gap in current research on the issue of money laundering, revealing how the progression and globalisation of technology exposes new challenges, to applying regulations to prevent money laundering schemes. She will show how organised crime groups breach legal and regulatory controls, using today’s most popular internet offerings, including online payment systems, online auctions, online gaming, social networking sites and blogs.

Guests at the lecture will be welcomed by Professor Terence Seemungal, Chair of the Open Lectures Committee, and hear opening remarks by Mr. Jeremy Callaghan, the St. Augustine Campus Registrar. Professor Bissessar’s lecture will be followed by an open discussion.

This lecture is free and open to the public.

For further information, please contact the UWI Marketing and Communications Office, at 662-2002 exts. 2013 or 2014.

UWI St. Augustine This lecture will be held tomorrow from 5:30 pm and is free and open to the public. For further information, please contact the UWI Marketing and Communications Office, at 662-2002 exts. 2013 or 2014.

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DNA tests to identify homeless man!!!

8 February 2011 Leave a Comment

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Trinidad - A pathologist from the Forensic Science Centre is expected to do DNA tests on the skeleton which was found scattered inside a storeroom of an abandoned Princes Town gas station on Saturday. Crimefighters, led by Sgt Don Gajadhar, are expected to go to the Forensic Science Centre this morning, where attempts will be made to extract samples from the bones to do DNA tests. Officers also said that attempts will also be made to identify the remains using dental records.

Investigators believe the man may have died more than a year ago. However, detectives said it was unclear whether the remains were dumped inside the gas station, or whether the man had died inside the room. The building where the remains were found, has been unoccupied for years. It was once used by employees of Moonan’s Gas Station, to house tyres and other supplies. On Saturday around 6 am, iguana hunter Lennox Charles said he was chasing lizards close to the dilapidated structure when he saw the bones. The skull had a tooth on the upper left side, and another tooth on bottom jaw of the right side. A greyish, blue-beaded necklace was found close to the skull.

Investigators said the man might have been a street dweller. Other street dwellers, however, told police that they were not missing any of their friends and they had no idea who the bones belonged to. Officers said they were forced to break down some burglar-proofing to gain access to the room. The remains were viewed by a District Medical Officer who ordered them removed to the Forensic Science Centre. Investigations are continuing.

Now what a waste of money this will be! Unless the Police and Forensic Science Centre have a comparison sample of “Missing Homeless Man” they are not going to achieve anything at all other than wasting money they claim they don’t have in the first place!

And I have to laugh at the news reporters use of “Crimefighters” What a laugh!!!

By the way this is reported in the Trinidad Guardian Newspaper here

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New spy agency soon

3 February 2011 Leave a Comment

I have posted this for our friends far away.

You will notice the configuration of the committee… I wonder who that person is???

AN IMPLEMENTATION committee to facilitate the merger of the Special Anti-Crime Unit (SAUTT), the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA) and the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) into one legal corporate body known as the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) will be put in place at the end of March.

Government sources revealed yesterday that the committee will comprise senior persons from the three units, as well as a foreign consultant. According to well placed sources, the committee will be responsible for disbanding the three units, choosing staff needed for the NIA and pooling together all machinery to have the NIA up and running.

When the committee completes this exercise, the recommendations will be taken to Parliament for the NIA to become the legal corporate body. However, in order to facilitate the formation of the NIA, Parliament should abolish the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) and the Act that created this agency should be repealed and replaced by the National Intelligence Agency Act, a Government source said yesterday. This body should be in place by September.

This means hundreds of persons employed at the three agencies could be out of jobs because of the duplication taking place. According to the Government source, at the end of March 31, police and Defence Force officers who were seconded to SAUTT will be required to return to the service which they came from, while the foreign police officers’ contracts at SAUTT will be terminated.

Retired officers who work on contract at SAUTT will report to the implementation committee, pending the merger of the three units. Newsday understands the headquarters for the NIA will be Riverside Plaza in Port-of-Spain, which now houses the SAUTT.

Yesterday operatives at the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) told Newsday while they have no problem with change, because change is inevitable, they feel that some of them may be victimised for various reasons, and they are eager to find out if they will be absorbed into the NIA or be given an excellent compensation package.

By NALINEE SEELAL Newsday

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11.3 murders per 1 million people, unlike the Caribbean…

30 January 2011 Leave a Comment

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But the murder rate is still too much.

What makes the difference between the UK and the Caribbean (and the US, Canada etc) is the CONVICTION rate of the offenders.

How can you use hanging as a deterant if you can not convict the buggers in the first place.

And should you hang someone if there are any doubts whatsoever that he (or she) did it? You should use ALL the tools at your disposal, such as DNA, Fingerprint together with eye witness and electronic evidence.

Convict the guilty and exonerate the innocent!

Murder rate: the trends that solve the crimes

619 murders were recorded in England and Wales in 2009/10, see the stats that help to solve crimes

• Get the data

Statistics on homicide are vitally important as they aid investigations into hard-to-solve and unsolved murders.
Given the characteristics of the victim and the offence, the statistics can help police narrow down a suspect group in the hunt for a murderer.

The Home Office publish an extensive “Homicides, Firearm Offences and Intimate Violence ” report.

The data in this report describes the recorded crimes in England and Wales over the past 50 years.

The Home Office figures tell us that last year 619 deaths were recorded as homicide in England and Wales.

As Simon Rogers previously posted the mortality statistics, we can see that 318 deaths were caused by assault. That accounts for about half of murders in 2009.

Now what extra detail does the homicide report show?

  • Two-thirds of homicide victims (68%) were male.
  • Female victims were more likely to be killed by someone they knew. Around three-quarters of female victims knew the main suspect, compared with half (50%) of male victims.
  • Just over half of female victims aged 16 or over had been killed by their partner, ex-partner or lover (54%, 94 offences)
  • The most common method of killing for both male and females continues to be by sharp instrument. In 2009/10, as in each of the last eight years, male and female victims were both more likely to be killed by a sharp instrument than any other method.
  • The second most common method for male murders involves hitting or kicking (113 homicides, or 27%)
  • The second most common method for females murder was strangulation or asphyxiation (41 homicides, or 21%).
  • There were 41 shooting homicide victims in 2009/10.
  • In terms of reoffender rates, two homicide offences recorded in 2009/10 were committed by a suspect who had been convicted of a homicide on a
    previous occasion.

Below is more detailed regional breakdown of murders by police force area.

Data summary

Homicides England and Wales
Police force area
Number of
recorded homicide
in 2005/06
Number of
recorded homicide
in 2009/10
Offences per
million of
population 2009/10
Cleveland 5 6 10.7
Durham 8 10 16.5
Northumbria 16 14 9.9
North East Region 29 30 11.6
Cheshire 14 8 8
Cumbria 2 - 0
Gtr Manchester 50 35 13.5
Lancashire 12 26 18
Merseyside 26 21 15.5
North West Region 104 90 13
Humberside 10 13 14.2
North Yorkshire 4 6 7.5
South Yorkshire 21 12 9.1
West Yorkshire 33 32 14.4
Yorkshire and the Humber Region 68 63 12
Derbyshire 6 2 2
Leicestershire 6 13 13.2
Lincolnshire 4 6 8.6
Northamptonshire 10 5 7.3
Nottinghamshire 14 15 13.9
East Midlands Region 40 41 9.2
Staffordshire 10 13 12.2
Warwickshire 8 11 20.6
West Mercia 5 15 12.6
West Midlands 49 27 10.2
West Midlands Region 72 66 12.2
Bedfordshire 9 6 9.9
Cambridgeshire 10 8 10.3
Essex 20 10 5.8
Hertfordshire 9 6 5.5
Norfolk 11 7 8.2
Suffolk 5 10 14
East of England Region 64 47 8.2
City of London3 2 2 ..
Metropolitan 168 120 15.5
London Region 170 122 15.7
Hampshire 9 19 10.2
Kent 15 16 9.6
Surrey 10 8 7.2
Sussex 13 13 8.3
Thames Valley 19 14 6.3
South East Reqion 66 70 8.3
Avon and Somerset 9 16 10
Devon and Cornwall 12 16 9.6
Dorset 2 5 7
Gloucestershire 2 4 6.8
Wiltshire 7 4 6.1
South West Region 32 45 8.6
Dyfed-Powys 3 2 4
Gwent 4 18 32.1
North Wales 6 7 10.3
South Wales 9 16 12.8
Wales 22 43 14.3
British Transport Police4 42 2 *
ENGLAND AND WALES 709 619 11.3

Download the data

• DATA: download the full spreadsheet

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A very very small post –

20 January 2011 Leave a Comment

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I told you the changes were coming and here is a newspaper leaking their headlines for tomorrow on TWITTER.

 

Tomorrow’s Headlines: SAUTT air fleet absorbed into Police Service
No other word yet from the paper but there may be some more news with this.
Remember the newspaper has its own web site at www.guardian.co.tt if you want to visit and see the news first hand (this headline is not there yet)

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Shocking Statistics

30 November 2010 Leave a Comment

I am going to post a news report from the Trinidadian Newsday newspaper today.

It is a very sorry story but what is really upsetting are the figures at the end of it.

‘WHAT IS YOUR CRIME PLAN?’

Angered by the surge in murders and lawlessness, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar heads this morning to the police headquarters in Port-of-Spain to demand of Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs and his top brass what plans they have to arrest the crime rate.

Government sources said Persad-Bissessar, head of the National Security Council, commanded that the meeting take place on Gibbs’s ‘turf’, that is the Police Administration Building, on the corner on Sackville Street and Richmond Street, Port-of-Spain and not at the Office of the Prime Minister in St Clair or at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann’s.

She is expected to ask Gibbs what he plans to do to get rid of the “criminals terrorising the country”, a source told Newsday yesterday.

“She wants to know are their plans to reclaim Trinidad and Tobago from the hands of criminals,” said the source.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 9 am and Gibbs is expected to brief the Prime Minister on the initiatives he has in place, in the short term, to deal with crime over the Christmas and Carnival seasons, according to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday.

Persad-Bissessar called the meeting after a killing spree in which more than 17 murders, some of them double and triple homicides, were committed in less than 14 days.

National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy will accompany the Prime Minister to the meeting at which Gibbs, Deputy Commissioners Jack Ewatski, Stephen Williams, Maurice Piggott and nine divisional commanders are to give an account of their plans.

Last week, Sandy instructed Gibbs “to go hard on criminals” at the height of the spate of murders which included the highly publicised killing of TSTT employee Kenny Goddard at a work site in Cocorite and Trinidad-born American soldier Simeon Roderique. Their killers have yet to be found and arrested.

Several murders over the past weekend pushed the death toll to 450.

Sources said Persad-Bissessar was alarmed by this statistic and her concerns have been intensified by the numerous emails, text messages and letters she has received from members of the public crying out for something to be done about the runaway crime. Crime was also raised with Persad-Bissessar by the business community during a meeting she had with representatives last week.

Persad-Bissessar has taken a firm position to deliver on reducing crime and is expected to give the police brass a clear mandate to bring the lawlessness to an end. She also wants them to state how they are going to deal with gang crimes.

“She wants results and not promises,” a source said yesterday.

Government is keen for Gibbs, a Canadian, and his executive to deliver since they negotiated a multimillion dollar remuneration package for the commissioner.

On August 26, Cabinet approved a three-year contract, worth almost $4 million, for Gibbs. Ewatski, who too is Canadian, also received a three-year contract.

At a press briefing at the Office of Prime Minister’s, St Clair, that day, Sandy said Gibbs’ pay will be US$205,000 per year (TT$1.3 million), which works out to an estimated TT$108,000 per month. Ewatski’s pay is CAN$200,000 per year (TT$ 1.2 million) or an estimated TT$102,000 per month.

“These packages are related to those offered to commissioners of police in jurisdictions in Canada and the US,” Sandy had said. Newsday understands there is a termination clause in the three-year contracts under which Gibbs will be dismissed if his performance is deemed unsatisfactory by the Police Service Commission (the independent body charged with the recruitment and discipline of police officers) and by the Ministry of National Security.

“Between the Ministry of National Security and the Police Service Commission it will be determined whether they are performing as we expect them to perform,” Sandy said on August 26. “Additionally, the office holders will be able to leave if they so desire.”

Sources said although Gibbs has only been Commissioner of Police for three months Persad-Bissessar expects him to deliver, because the People’s Partnership campaigned during the last General Election that they would bring crime down.

Gibbs is due to present Persad-Bissessar with a report on his anti-crime initiatives which are expected to be launched tomorrow and will continue until Carnival next March. Persad-Bissessar wants the police to maintain round-the-clock visibility between Christmas and Carnival. Police sources said in October Gibbs asked all divisional commanders to come up with anti- crime strategies.

Those reports were submitted to Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Harold Phillip and Newsday understands that from tomorrow the Port-of-Spain, Western, Northern, North Eastern, Central and Southern Divisions will once again partner with members of the Defence Force to carry out round-the-clock patrols.

Emphasis will be placed on shopping areas during the Christmas season.

Sources said police of the Port-of-Spain Division held discussions with store owners who expressed concern about the impact of crime on their businesses.

The police gave the business community the assurance every effort will be made to protect businesses, customers and employees.

“We want to assure the public, especially those who come to Port-of-Spain to shop, that they need not fear because the police and soldiers will be at every street corner, mingling with crowds to ensure the safety of all,” a senior officer in the Port-of-Spain Division said yesterday.

Newsday also understands officers of the K9 United and Mounted Branch will be included in police patrols in Port-of-Spain in the next month. By mid-December all officers on clerical and desk duties will be reassigned to the streets to carry out patrols in all divisions and plainclothes officers will mingle with shoppers to nab pickpockets.

Police sources said in the Central division members of other protective agencies will partner with the police to carry out patrols in the borough of Chaguanas. Thousands of shoppers from across the country converge on the borough for Christmas, every year, for bargain shopping.

The police are also to monitor activity around ATM machines where persons withdraw significant sums of money for Christmas. The police are to advise the public not to wear jewelry when out shopping and to avoid walking with too much cash.

It is also expected the plan will include police escorts for businessmen to make deposits.

According to police statistics, there were 32 murders; 384 reports of burglaries; 124 reports of larceny of motor vehicles; eight kidnappings with no ransom demands; 39 woundings and shootings; 54 reports of rape, incest and sexual assaults for October. There were also 455 robberies. Statistics for the month of November will be given to the Prime Minister during her meeting today.

 

How those figures would look over a twelve month period…

Murders – 384

Burglaries – 4608

Larceny of Motor Vehicle – 1488

Kidnap (no ransom) – 96

Woundings or shootings – 468

Rape, Incest, Sexual Assault – 648

Robberies - 5460

That is a very high toll on the public!

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“I say Matron!” What do you make of this?

21 September 2010 Leave a Comment

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Click the front page for that newspapers full story.

I am not going to comment.

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Following allegations of gross misconduct: 35 officers sent on immediate ‘leave’

14 September 2010 Leave a Comment

Trinidad and Tobago Police Service: Crime plan

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I have heard this news on the radio and now recovered it from the newspapers too but it is a sad day for Trinidad…

If the allegations are true it will reinforce what many people say about the police here, these people would say it anywhere in the world though.

There are a lot of brilliant, hard-working police officers within TTPS but they sometimes don’t have the equipment, training and support to carry out their duties as they should / could.

Unfortunately the investigation into the officers is being carried out by people who should not be doing it.

The acting CoP has appointed two officers from different departments to investigate, but isn’t it time TTPS had its own internal affairs department?

RBTT the bank has its own, BP and BG both huge organisations have their own internal investigations departments, but the Police hasn’t? Something strange there.

Anyway, here is the story and I look forward to your comments.

35 officers sent on immediate ‘leave’…

THIRTY-FIVE officers assigned to the Repeat Offenders Programme Task Force (ROPTF) were yesterday sent on administrative leave with immediate effect by acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams.

The Criminal Intelligence Unit (CIU), headed by Acting Snr Supt John Martinez, was then given full control of the ROPTF. Martinez and Acting ASP Sahadeo Singh, of the Besson Street CID, were then mandated by Williams to conduct a full-scale investigation into allegations of gross misconduct against ROPTF officers.

Speaking with the Express yesterday after the promotion of 79 officers, Williams confirmed a probe had been launched into the allegations, highlighted in an exclusive Sunday Express article over the weekend.

“Any allegations of corruption or serious allegations against police officers are something which we address as a matter of priority,” Williams said.

“The police executive would have addressed the issue surrounding the Repeat Offenders Programme Task Force, and we have in fact launched an investigation, which will in fact be headed by Snr Supt Martinez, with a clear mandate to complete a total audit, assessment and complete investigation in relation to all matters relating to allegations that have been highlighted against the Repeat Offenders Programme Task Force.”

Asked about investigations that were initiated in the past by retired acting Commissioner of Police James Philbert and retired acting deputy Commissioner of Police Gilbert Reyes, regarding allegations of misconduct at the ROPTF, Williams said he had no information on such matters.

Martinez, the man who led a contingent of CIU officers to the St Joseph Police Station last year, where a stash of guns and ammunition and drugs were found hidden in the station’s ceiling, was given a mandate of 30 days to complete the probe and submit it to Williams.

When the Express visited the Besson Street Police Station yesterday, ROPTF officers were seen packing bags with their personal belongings into their personal vehicles.

The latest action came on the heels of allegations against ROPTF officers, a crime-fighting unit in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, made in an investigative piece published in the Sunday Express.

The Express understands that some of the ROPTF officers yesterday refused to hand over sensitive information to CIU officers during the handing-over process upstairs the Besson Street station. The automatic doors to gain access to the building are expected to be changed later today, as a hand-picked team from the CIU starts their probe, the Express was told.

Guns, ammunition, vehicles and other assets used by the unit were seized by CIU officers, but the ROPTF officers were allowed to keep their personally-issued service pistols.

“From captain to cook (from the ROPTF) were sent packing yesterday, and it looks like Mr Williams really serious about regaining public confidence in the police service, and these types of measures are sometimes necessary,” a senior officer told the Express.

Williams described allegations raised against the unit as serious and on Sunday, instructed that the officers meet with him at his office yesterday. During the meeting, a police source said, Williams informed the officers that he was sending them on administrative leave for one month, pending the outcome of the probe into allegations of corruption at the unit.

The Express started a two-month investigation after allegations of gross misconduct against ROPTF officers were made by Laventille residents following the kidnapping of Keon “Guts” Glasgow in April this year. Glasgow, a Laventille resident, was allegedly taken into custody by ROPTF officers, and to date has not been seen or heard.

Residents had staged a fiery protest, demanding that officers, whom they claimed were attached to the ROPTF, say where Glasgow was taken. Some of the allegations suggested that officers assigned to ROPTF were in collusion with and, in some cases, controlled by Port of Spain gangs. It is also alleged that officers from the unit have been fingered in multiple homicides along the East West corridor, and have tipped off known gang leaders about exercises about to be conducted.

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