A 39-year-old Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice Con­sta­ble (SRP) from To­ba­go is ex­pect­ed to go be­fore Scar­bor­ough Mag­is­trate Vir­tu­al Court, on Thurs­day 29th Oc­to­ber 2020, to an­swer the charge of the Breach of a Quar­an­tine Or­der.

An of­fi­cial state­ment from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) states that WIMANA COM­BIE, who is at­tached to the Guard Unit based at Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion, was con­tact­ed by the Health De­part­ment be­cause he al­leged­ly came in­to con­tact with some­one who pre­vi­ous­ly test­ed pos­i­tive for the COVID-19 virus.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS re­lease, Com­bie, who re­sides at Ply­mouth, was test­ed on Sun­day 16th Au­gust 2020, and was is­sued with a Quar­an­tine Or­der for the pe­ri­od of 14 days—from Au­gust 16th 2020 to Au­gust 29th 2020—which he had signed vol­un­tar­i­ly.

The or­der stat­ed that the of­fi­cer was as­sessed and found to be a pos­si­ble risk for the trans­mis­sion of the virus.

The Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer of Trinidad and To­ba­go, who is the Quar­an­tine Au­thor­i­ty—in ac­cor­dance with the pow­ers vest­ed by the Quar­an­tine Act chap­ter 28:05, and specif­i­cal­ly Reg­u­la­tion 38 (1((b) of the Quar­an­tine (Mar­itime) Reg­u­la­tions and Sec­tion 15 of the Quar­an­tine (Air) Reg­u­la­tions—di­rect­ed that COM­BIE be quar­an­tined for ob­ser­va­tion for 14 days.

Dur­ing this quar­an­tine pe­ri­od, the Ply­mouth res­i­dent would not be al­lowed to leave his place of abode. In ad­di­tion, fail­ing to com­ply with these quar­an­tine di­rec­tions meant he would be li­able to con­vic­tion of a fine and im­pris­on­ment.

The TTPS re­lease re­ports that dur­ing the pe­ri­od of his quar­an­tine, Com­bie was re­port­ed­ly seen at busi­ness places and oth­er pub­lic spaces.

Con­cerned cit­i­zens re­port­ed­ly con­tact­ed the Health Au­thor­i­ty, and a re­port was made to the po­lice.

Sgt Yorke at­tached to the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion con­duct­ed en­quiries and sub­se­quent­ly laid the charge.