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Re: "Official" POLICE & Police Commisioner Related Matters thread ...

Postby paid_influencer » February 5th, 2025, 9:05 pm

bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


$500,000 is like 2 to 5 years salary for a healthcare worker. this fella get it for mis-use of a search warrant. like he ent even have to change a single bedpan for that, not even 1 bed pan

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Postby alfa » February 5th, 2025, 9:10 pm

paid_influencer wrote:
bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


$500,000 is like 2 to 5 years salary for a healthcare worker. this fella get it for mis-use of a search warrant. like he ent even have to change a single bedpan for that, not even 1 bed pan


Wasn't that search initiated under Erla self about 3 years ago when they raided his home during the audit?

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Postby bluefete » February 5th, 2025, 9:16 pm

alfa wrote:
paid_influencer wrote:
bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


$500,000 is like 2 to 5 years salary for a healthcare worker. this fella get it for mis-use of a search warrant. like he ent even have to change a single bedpan for that, not even 1 bed pan


Wasn't that search initiated under Erla self about 3 years ago when they raided his home during the audit?


Not sure. Police got a warrant to search his business but then used it to search 5 other properties he had. $100k x 5 properties = $1/2 million in restitution.


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Postby The_Honourable » February 5th, 2025, 10:06 pm

bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


You know what? Hadeed deserves it. Years of this FUL expedition post-CoP Gary Griffith showing up the TTPS to be incompetent.

Yes inshan have it out for richard... checking out the replay

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Postby pugboy » February 5th, 2025, 10:54 pm

all thanks to heinz and rowlee with their personal bias on this whole ful matter whilst fast tracking for their friends and security detail staff

The_Honourable wrote:
bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


You know what? Hadeed deserves it. Years of this FUL expedition post-CoP Gary Griffith showing up the TTPS to be incompetent.

Yes inshan have it out for richard... checking out the replay

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Postby paid_influencer » February 5th, 2025, 11:32 pm

The_Honourable wrote:
bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


You know what? Hadeed deserves it. Years of this FUL expedition post-CoP Gary Griffith showing up the TTPS to be incompetent.

Yes inshan have it out for richard... checking out the replay


No he doesn't deserve it. Did he create $500,000 worth of value? No? The he doesn't deserve it. The ridiculous level of compensation makes a complete mockery of the idea that capitalism is anything other than a vehicle for a tiny minority of persons to exploit and hoard resources produced by the collective labouring of the general population.

Who is going to pay this $500,000 bill? And the better question is why this isn't being investigated by the DCP for misbehaviour in public office.

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Postby The_Honourable » February 6th, 2025, 12:58 am

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The_Honourable wrote:Yeah Erla the person might be pleasant but as CoP she is/was incompetent and more than likely a "yes" woman to the government.

That being said, clearly she's being ousted three months before her term ends by deputies who seem to be just as incompetent and acting on behalf of someone high ranking.

Up to now we don't know where these said 2 bolt action rifles are.


I disagree entirely with this. Erla is doing good work. The SoE so far has been relatively successful given it is only one singular cog (her cog) operating and not a whole-of-government approach to crime.

There has been no support from the government and a completely porous border letting gangs, guns and drugs in from all over the world. Right now there are no active Container Examination Stations at either Port of Spain or Point Lisas. 0% of containers being examined at the port. We have everything coming in from everywhere and Erla is being made a scapegoat for the consequences of top-to-bottom corruption in the government.

Many people mistake bluster and smooth talk for competence. Gary dealt hand that out in spades while FUL policy went completely haywire and even children got assault rifles.

But I put forward that what Erla has done is very good work given the hand she has been dealt with an island run by Rowley and Hinds.

And if you think that is lie, wait until you see what them deputy getting we into. Then you will cry and beg for Erla.

#TeamErla


Yeah well rowley and the rest of the cabinet was #TeamErla too, highest murder rate ever last year, home invasions spiked since covid, gangs expanding all over T&T, loss of public confidence in the TTPS and a watered-down SOE which only shows what police supposed to be doing on a normal day.

And the hand that was dealt with, she didn't know that when she applied for the wuk?

WATERY STEUPZ...



paid_influencer wrote:
The_Honourable wrote:
bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.


You know what? Hadeed deserves it. Years of this FUL expedition post-CoP Gary Griffith showing up the TTPS to be incompetent.

Yes inshan have it out for richard... checking out the replay


No he doesn't deserve it. Did he create $500,000 worth of value? No? The he doesn't deserve it. The ridiculous level of compensation makes a complete mockery of the idea that capitalism is anything other than a vehicle for a tiny minority of persons to exploit and hoard resources produced by the collective labouring of the general population.

Who is going to pay this $500,000 bill? And the better question is why this isn't being investigated by the DCP for misbehaviour in public office.


You does talk real SHEET sometimes yuh know...

You come back with this capitalism talk?

The court found that the ttps abuse a search warrant, the court award 500k in damages, you asking if he create 500k worth of value? Go and ask the judge that let him hit yuh an easy 14k or more for wasting court time.

So when TTPS come and abuse you and your family, it goes to court, ttps found to be wrong and compensation awarded, you going and tell the judge well i eh taking it because of some BS about capitalism and resources?

Pee and go in yuh bed please

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Postby 16 cycles » February 6th, 2025, 6:19 am

State to compensate car dealer for wrongful seizure of 29 vehicles

The State is set to pay significant compensation to a used-car dealer after the detention of 29 vehicles by the police for several years. 

The Office of the Attorney General agreed to pay compensation to Hannah Bovell and Jean Pierre’s Auto Supplies and Services Limited yesterday as their case was set to go on trial before High Court Judge Frank Seepersad.

The trial was set to go ahead undefended as the AG’s Office failed to meet a deadline given by Justice Seepersad for filing witness statements in the case.

The compensation is now expected to be assessed by a High Court Master at a later date. 

Bovell initiated legal action after she took control of the company when her husband, Jean Pierre Assee, who founded it, died in early 2016. They claimed that between 2013 and 2019, the used vehicles valued at $1,837,000 were seized by the police and detained at several police stations and an impound lot in Sea Lots. 

Bovell sought information on the vehicles from the police, and eight were released to her. She was unable to track down some of the vehicles, and three were reportedly handed over to unknown third parties. She then filed the lawsuit in relation to the vehicles, which she claimed were being unlawfully detained. 

Bovell and the company claimed that they suffered a loss of income as the company had entered into “work-to-own” arrangements in relation to some of the vehicles.

“As a consequence of the wrongful detention and/or conversion of the 29 vehicles, the claimants suffered loss of earnings since they were not able to sell these vehicles for which they had already expended money to purchase,” their lawyers said. 

“The claimants also suffered consequential loss of use and earnings as a result of the depreciation and deterioration of the vehicles that have been exposed to the elements for years,” they added. 

They also claimed that the T&T Police Service (TTPS) was in clear breach of its own Standing Orders by failing to keep accurate and up-to-date records in relation to the vehicles. 

In late 2023, the AG’s Office applied to have the claim struck out on the basis that it was filed outside the four-year statutory limitation period for bringing such cases. It also claimed Bovell and the company failed to prove that they were the legitimate owners of the vehicles. 

The application was rejected by Justice Seepersad, who ruled that it was “devoid of merit.” He ruled that the AG’s Office had not demonstrated that any other party had better title to the vehicles.

“The court also takes judicial notice of the fact that a regrettable practice does exist whereby people buy vehicles and do not transfer same to obviate transfer charges or where used car dealers would buy vehicles and only transfer them when they are resold,” Justice Seepersad said. “As a consequence, in many instances, the only evidence to establish proof of ownership or an interest in such a vehicle is a receipt,” he added. 

Bovell and her company were represented by Arden Williams and Antoinette Lucas-Andrews.



https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/state-t ... 9972595808

Not faulting the AG for asking if statutory limit is up - but taxpayers will bear the cost of TTPS' conduct

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Postby alfa » February 6th, 2025, 7:26 am

That's why we the taxpayer supposed to demand better of the ttps, namely to hire people with sense who wouldn't think that one warrant could work on 5 proprieties or that the wheelchair handicapped symbol means that only wheelchairs can park there. (Actually happened a number of years ago)

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Postby pugboy » February 6th, 2025, 7:58 am

unfortunately taxpayers have no control over the PM who has final say on who becomes the CoP and condones the vendettas that these cops have against innocent ppl

during stevie williams time a well known gun dealer in south used to have police raid ppl house regularly for arms and ammo
if he find they bad talk his brand of air rifles
just so a few police cars would show up to search your house and nada after


alfa wrote:That's why we the taxpayer supposed to demand better of the ttps, namely to hire people with sense who wouldn't think that one warrant could work on 5 proprieties or that the wheelchair handicapped symbol means that only wheelchairs can park there. (Actually happened a number of years ago)

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Postby zoom rader » February 6th, 2025, 10:42 am

bluefete wrote:Honourable: Thanks for the clarification.

Note that the 1% - Hadeed won $500,000.00 from the court for the police mis-use of a search warrant.

Taxpayers money jumping up from those blasted lying through their teeth PNM politicians.

Inshan real bussing files on Richard Smith.

He called Benjie and got through.

He called Suzette Martin, got through and before he was finished speaking the call dropped via busy tone - LOLZ.
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Postby Dizzy28 » February 6th, 2025, 10:49 am

16 cycles wrote:
State to compensate car dealer for wrongful seizure of 29 vehicles

The State is set to pay significant compensation to a used-car dealer after the detention of 29 vehicles by the police for several years. 

The Office of the Attorney General agreed to pay compensation to Hannah Bovell and Jean Pierre’s Auto Supplies and Services Limited yesterday as their case was set to go on trial before High Court Judge Frank Seepersad.

The trial was set to go ahead undefended as the AG’s Office failed to meet a deadline given by Justice Seepersad for filing witness statements in the case.

The compensation is now expected to be assessed by a High Court Master at a later date. 

Bovell initiated legal action after she took control of the company when her husband, Jean Pierre Assee, who founded it, died in early 2016. They claimed that between 2013 and 2019, the used vehicles valued at $1,837,000 were seized by the police and detained at several police stations and an impound lot in Sea Lots. 

Bovell sought information on the vehicles from the police, and eight were released to her. She was unable to track down some of the vehicles, and three were reportedly handed over to unknown third parties. She then filed the lawsuit in relation to the vehicles, which she claimed were being unlawfully detained. 

Bovell and the company claimed that they suffered a loss of income as the company had entered into “work-to-own” arrangements in relation to some of the vehicles.

“As a consequence of the wrongful detention and/or conversion of the 29 vehicles, the claimants suffered loss of earnings since they were not able to sell these vehicles for which they had already expended money to purchase,” their lawyers said. 

“The claimants also suffered consequential loss of use and earnings as a result of the depreciation and deterioration of the vehicles that have been exposed to the elements for years,” they added. 

They also claimed that the T&T Police Service (TTPS) was in clear breach of its own Standing Orders by failing to keep accurate and up-to-date records in relation to the vehicles. 

In late 2023, the AG’s Office applied to have the claim struck out on the basis that it was filed outside the four-year statutory limitation period for bringing such cases. It also claimed Bovell and the company failed to prove that they were the legitimate owners of the vehicles. 

The application was rejected by Justice Seepersad, who ruled that it was “devoid of merit.” He ruled that the AG’s Office had not demonstrated that any other party had better title to the vehicles.

“The court also takes judicial notice of the fact that a regrettable practice does exist whereby people buy vehicles and do not transfer same to obviate transfer charges or where used car dealers would buy vehicles and only transfer them when they are resold,” Justice Seepersad said. “As a consequence, in many instances, the only evidence to establish proof of ownership or an interest in such a vehicle is a receipt,” he added. 

Bovell and her company were represented by Arden Williams and Antoinette Lucas-Andrews.



https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/state-t ... 9972595808

Not faulting the AG for asking if statutory limit is up - but taxpayers will bear the cost of TTPS' conduct


The infamous Black Widow oui!!

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Postby Mmoney607 » February 6th, 2025, 11:13 am

Why Rowley didn't appoint the person who placed 4th on the merit list like he did with Gary

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Postby 16 cycles » February 6th, 2025, 12:29 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:The infamous Black Widow oui!!


did not know - saw it in the 2019 murder thread...ty

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Postby paid_influencer » February 8th, 2025, 4:26 pm

TTPS busy this weekend. Plenty drugs and ammunition being found.

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February 8th,2025
MEDIA RELEASE

$1.8M in Cannabis Seized, Firearm and Ammunition Seized, Man Arrested in Northern Division

A 20-year-old undocumented Venezuelan national has been arrested and a significant quantity of cannabis and a firearm and ammunition seized during a targeted intelligence-led operation in the Northern Division.

The exercise, which took place between 11:30 AM and 5:45 PM yesterday, was a joint effort involving various law enforcement agencies under the Ministry of National Security. The operation, titled 'Camp Shake,' saw collaboration between the Special Operations Unit (S.O.U), led by ACP Richard Smith and Snr Supt Roger Alexander, and supervised by Insp St. Clair and Sgt Baptiste, as well as officers from the TTPS’ Canine Unit and the National Security Special Operations Group (NSSOG).

The operation was executed in the Heights of Guanapo, Arima, within the Arima Police Station District. While searching a forested area in the region, officers discovered and seized four large packages of cannabis weighing a total of 103.1 kilograms. The narcotics, has an approximate street value of $1,814,560.00 TT.

The suspect was arrested and taken to the Arima Police Station, following advice and communication from the Immigration Department Enforcement Section.

In addition to the drugs, officers also discovered a loaded 9mm Beretta pistol and 20 rounds of 9mm ammunition, which were concealed within a makeshift plastic tent.

This exercise underscores the continued commitment of the armed forces and law enforcement agencies to tackle criminal activity and reinforce national security.

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TTPS doing their work, but we really need a whole-of-government approach to crime. three things in this story - #1 the undocumented vene not suppose to be on the island to start with #2 is the failure at customs allowing guns to come in via legal ports of entry #3 is the weed legislation that legalises demand while allowing only criminals to supply.

TTPS doing what they can but is like fulling bucket to keep back the ocean

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Postby zoom rader » February 8th, 2025, 5:29 pm

Any idea with the Popo gonna deal with white collar criminals like 1% and Impsberts?

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Postby hover11 » February 8th, 2025, 5:40 pm

zoom rader wrote:Any idea with the Popo gonna deal with white collar criminals like 1% and Impsberts?
Can't remember the last time I saw anyone charged for money laundering .....just like the importation of cocaine, apparently is only weed entering this country, like ppl stop committing those type of crimes hmmm

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Postby pugboy » February 8th, 2025, 5:54 pm

we only ketching the folks at the end of the food chain
not allowed to ketch the bigger fish at the top

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Postby hover11 » February 8th, 2025, 6:13 pm

Hadda justify that high national security budget allocation somehow
pugboy wrote:we only ketching the folks at the end of the food chain
not allowed to ketch the bigger fish at the top


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Postby wing » February 8th, 2025, 7:47 pm

zoom rader wrote:Any idea with the Popo gonna deal with white collar criminals like 1% and Impsberts?
Look a group of them in one place.
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Postby sMASH » February 8th, 2025, 7:58 pm

Weed is low hanging fruit. Should be shame to say they arrest weed

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Postby bluefete » February 8th, 2025, 8:03 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:The infamous Black Widow oui!!


All yuh ent easy. If yuh know, you know.

Much like the dead big chain car dealer's wife.

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zoom rader wrote:
pugboy wrote:the silence from rowlee and heinz is deafening
Same as

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Postby shake d livin wake d dead » February 9th, 2025, 6:46 am

bluefete wrote:
Dizzy28 wrote:The infamous Black Widow oui!!


All yuh ent easy. If yuh know, you know.

Much like the dead big chain car dealer's wife.


Is plenty ghosts following she yes

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Postby The_Honourable » February 12th, 2025, 2:11 am

Is suzie (allegedly) dey talking bout btw


Senior cop accused of justice obstruction

Serious allegations of attempts to pervert the course of justice were made against a senior police officer involved in the investigation against Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher.

At the time the complaints were made in 2023, the senior investigator worked with the police’s Professional Standards Bureau (PSB).

The officer making the complaint, Sgt Sean Haywood, expressed deep concerns over the manner in which this senior police officer handled two firearm-related investigations.

He was moved to make a report to Deputy Commissioner of Police Intelligence and Investigations Curt Simon, which was also sent to the Commissioner of Police (Harewood-Christopher) for onward transmission to the Minister of National Security, Fitzgerald Hinds.

It was copied to the head of the National Security Council and Police Complaints Authority (PCA).

Eleven days after being arrested and interrogated, the CoP is yet to be charged, as the Director of Public Prosecutions, Roger Gaspard, has not yet given the green light to lay a charge based on the evidence provided to him so far by the investigating team.

Possible charges would be misbehaviour in public office arising out of Harewood-Christopher’s granting of a licence for the importation and use of the two sniper firearms which found their way to the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), which is itself under probe.

Two years before this senior investigator’s involvement in this case against Harewood-Christopher, allegations were made that the senior officer attempted to pervert the course of justice, exhibited bias, lacked transparency and accountability, stymied certain investigations, and acted contrary to the advice of the DPP when the officer instructed Haywood to alter an exhibit “to dismantle a firearm, remove a part of the said firearm seized and hand over the firearm evidence back to the suspect”, which, Haywood said, was contrary to the advice of the DPP.

Sgt Haywood confirms report

The Sunday Express contacted Haywood yesterday to confirm whether he had indeed made the 2023 report.

He said: “Any reports I would have sent, were sent not because I hate the person but would have been done in the interest of the Police Service. I did what I was supposed to do. And you should also note that this was not as a result of what is going on now (ie, the ongoing investigations with respect to the Commissioner of Police). My report was done a long time ago. Nothing came out of it. But I did my part and I stand by my words.”

Based on his letters, Sgt Haywood appeared to be so troubled by what he experienced and witnessed that he took his allegations against the senior cop to the Minister of National Security (Hinds) via the Commissioner of Police (Harewood-Christopher).

In a letter dated November 17, 2023, to the “Minister of National Security ufs (under first signature) Commissioner of Police, the memo was titled: “Alleged attempt by senior officer to pervert the course of justice” and Haywood attached a copy of his report dated July 5, 2023, to Deputy Commissioner Simon containing all the allegations against the senior cop’s attempt to “pervert the course of public justice relative on ongoing firearms investigations of national importance”.

The letter to the CoP for onward transmission to the minister was delivered to the office of the Commissioner of Police on July 10, 2023.

Haywood said in his report dated July 5, 2023, addressed to Simon (and reinforced in a second memo dated September 12, 2023) that the senior cop oversaw two investigations involving persons whose names had been linked to high-profile cases involving illegal weapons importation and possession.

Haywood said “under the guise of lending assistance”, the Professional Standards Bureau...(name called), caused this investigation to be “stymied by non-issues...On numerous occasions I was informed that other assignments took priority over my investigation, causing the retardation of any progress in the investigation”.

Stating that on several occasions he questioned why he was receiving little or no assistance from the PSB, Haywood added: “There is the appearance based on evidence that (name called) is not interested in the completion of this investigation.”

He said the senior investigator, in the presence of other officers, instructed him not to interview certain subjects of the investigation, and provided no “legal authority or other reasonable justification for this instruction”.

In one of the investigations, Haywood said the senior investigator took the position that some of the persons involved in this matter were “good persons”, persons of “good repute”, were not members of any gang and should not be charged.

Haywood said he believed that (name called) knew the persons involved and this affected the manner in which the investigation was handled.

“The lack of support by (name called) for these serious firearm offences committed and to unofficially and illegally decriminalise the illegal acts committed by said persons, simply because...was of the opinion that the said suspects were ‘good persons’, as (the senior cop) highlighted their status, speaks volumes.

“Furthermore, (name called) kept enquiring as to what was my way forward in these investigations because (the senior cop) was of the opinion that persons on the list were of good repute. I kept urging (senior cop) not to get involved but (senior investigator) religiously pursued giving me...instructions not to proceed against those persons and that I should only pursue the Dealer (name called).

“(The senior investigator) requested that I furnish...in writing, how I proposed to continue the investigations. This is not normal in investigation procedures,” Haywood stated. He added that (name called) undertook to call in suspects in possession of items of evidential value (ie, firearm components) which had proven to be “a disaster and a slap in the face for any proper investigation”.

“I informed (the senior investigator) I did not agree with the recommended course of actions, however (the senior investigator) pushed (that) idea at the DPP’s office and informed him it will be just about ten suspects that will be contacted for statement purposes. The DPP clearly informed (the senior investigator) that notwithstanding the recording of statements, he did not take the position that the said persons...would not be charged,” Haywood said.

He said at one point, (name called) called him to the kitchen area and asked him to listen in to a telephone conversation that (the senior cop) was having with DPP Roger Gaspard.

He said he heard the DPP say to (name called) that the (senior cop) “should allow the process of the investigation to follow as per usual and take its natural course”.

Said Haywood: “I understood from the DPP’s advice that (the senior cop) was wrong to instruct me to alter the exhibit.”

Carnival Monday directive

Haywood said on Carnival Monday in 2023, the senior investigator issued instructions which the officer said were in “furtherance to the directives of the DPP’s instructions/advice”, which included reporting to the Specialist Evidence Recovery Unit (SERU) and having the armourer remove the slide from a firearm which had been submitted as an exhibit and to submit the slide for analysis, which he said would have altered the exhibit and all future analysis report(s).

He said the senior investigator had no legal authority to do so since it could amount to an attempt to tamper with evidence.

Haywood said he was also instructed by the senior cop to hand over the remaining firearm parts to the accused who had not yet been charged for the suspected offences committed; and the senior cop also instructed that he return the FUL licence #217/2021 seized and all other items to the accused, which, he said, the senior investigator had no legal authority to do.

Haywood claimed the senior investigator was not truthful when referencing instructions to “previous discussions and directives from the Director of Public Prosecutions held in my presence. This was never the directive of the DPP, his final statement was ‘let the evidence go through the natural/correct channel’”.

Haywood said he reminded (name called) that the DPP’s final instructions/advice with reference to this subject were to allow the exhibits to go through the normal/natural process, and that the further instructions the senior cop was advancing were not his (DPP’s) directive. He said the senior investigator then communicated instructions in writing through ASP Birch.

After responding in writing that he believed the senior investigator was wrong, Haywood said he complied with the written instructions.

Transfer me

While Haywood’s report goes into painstaking detail on the matters under investigation, he concluded by stating: “I have reached the point where I am convinced that I cannot continue any of the aforementioned enquiries at PSB due to a lack of transparency, accountability, apparent bias, illegal instructions and pressure to pervert the course of justice” which could amount to possible misbehaviour in public office, instigated/directed by (name called). (The senior investigator) is, in my opinion, doing everything in...power to terminate all of my cases under investigation.

“Further since I commenced duties at the PSB office in February 2022, (name called) has never appointed a team to support the completion of any of my investigations as I have seen in other matters.

“As a consequence of the aforementioned and in an effort to stymie the constant interference which will cause all my efforts to become futile, I am now forced to request/recommend that you transfer me immediately from PSB so that I can continue and conclude my investigations timely and impartiality, and with other assistance recommended by your office inclusive of the Anti-Corruption and Investigations Bureau (ACIB),” he said.

The letter was copied to the Commissioner of Police (Harewood-Christopher).

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Postby 16 cycles » February 12th, 2025, 7:22 am

who was the senior officer covering for?

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Postby pugboy » February 12th, 2025, 8:10 am

she covering for plenty ting
most prominently brent thomas abduction
which clearly had govt instructions to be able to get caricom planes used….

16 cycles wrote:who was the senior officer covering for?

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Postby 16 cycles » February 12th, 2025, 5:20 pm

pugboy wrote:she covering for plenty ting
most prominently brent thomas abduction
which clearly had govt instructions to be able to get caricom planes used….

16 cycles wrote:who was the senior officer covering for?


If she propping up 'good boys' like Marlene....it would give credence to the abundance of corruption in TTPS at high levels...

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Postby 16 cycles » February 16th, 2025, 6:14 am

https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/25b-spe ... 29e06b5ec1

25B in last 10yrs ...

....the TTPS received approximately $743,000 in funding for every crime detected, while for every crime committed in the country, the TTPS collected $206,000 in funding. But pumping billions into the TTPS did not have a net positive impact on crime

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Postby hover11 » February 16th, 2025, 6:38 am

16 cycles wrote:https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/25b-spent-on-ttps-in-10-years-6.2.2234549.29e06b5ec1

25B in last 10yrs ...

....the TTPS received approximately $743,000 in funding for every crime detected, while for every crime committed in the country, the TTPS collected $206,000 in funding. But pumping billions into the TTPS did not have a net positive impact on crime
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