Ak­ile Si­mon

Fif­teen of­fi­cers as­signed to the St Joseph CID are fac­ing im­me­di­ate trans­fer af­ter sev­en guns, am­mu­ni­tion and drugs were re­port­ed­ly found hid­den in a ceil­ing and the dor­mi­to­ry area at the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion, yes­ter­day. A high-scale probe has been launched in­to the in­ci­dent by Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, James Philbert, sources said.

Around 10 am yes­ter­day, Ag Supt John Mar­tinez and a team of of­fi­cers from the Crim­i­nal In­tel­li­gence Unit (CIU) went to the sta­tion where they con­duct­ed sev­er­al search­es.The sta­tion re­mained un­der lock down for sev­er­al hours as of­fi­cers searched the build­ing. Sev­er­al of­fi­cers have been ques­tioned by In­tel­li­gence of­fi­cers in con­nec­tion with the find.

It is re­port­ed the guns, an undis­closed quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion, co­caine and mar­i­jua­na were found in the ceil­ing, at an of­fice as­signed to the sergeant in charge of the CID. How­ev­er, sources said there was no sergeant as­signed to the CID of­fice. It is al­so al­leged some of the con­tra­band was found in a dor­mi­to­ry area oc­cu­pied by CID of­fi­cers. When con­tact­ed, head of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Ra­jen­dranath Ma­haraj said Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, James Philbert was deal­ing with the in­ci­dent. He re­ferred all queries to Philbert. Ma­haraj was said to be present dur­ing the search. How­ev­er, at­tempts to con­tact Philbert up to late last evening proved fu­tile. Of­fi­cers at the St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion have re­mained tight-lipped about the in­ci­dent but con­firmed the premis­es was searched.

Ac­cord­ing to Ca­ble News Chan­nel Three news (CNC3), Com­mis­sion­er Philbert con­firmed the in­ci­dent and said for some time there have been ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties at the sta­tion. It is re­port­ed the items were not ex­hib­it­ed in court cas­es since an in­ven­to­ry at the prop­er­ty room re­vealed noth­ing was miss­ing. Philbert said the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the re­cov­ery of the il­le­gal items was on­go­ing and that the items did not be­long to the Po­lice Ser­vice. There are 14 con­sta­bles and one cor­po­ral as­signed to the CID of­fice.