Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

shane.su­perville@guardian.co.tt

A cor­po­ral and five po­lice con­sta­bles were ex­pect­ed to be in­ter­viewed as part of a probe in­to al­le­ga­tions that they re­ceived mon­ey from a man they ar­rest­ed.

Po­lice said a team of of­fi­cers from the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB), un­der su­per­vi­sion from the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau (PSB), vis­it­ed the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion on Tues­day to de­tain the of­fi­cers.

The of­fi­cers, who are all as­signed to the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force, were im­pli­cat­ed in al­leged­ly tak­ing mon­ey from a man they ar­rest­ed two weeks ago.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cers then de­mand­ed that the man give them fur­ther in­for­ma­tion on il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties in ex­change for his free­dom.

The al­le­ga­tions, one se­nior po­lice of­fi­cial said, would amount to mis­con­duct in pub­lic of­fice.

Se­nior po­lice said while the mat­ter was be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed they hoped that due process was fol­lowed to en­sure the of­fi­cers’ rights were not vi­o­lat­ed.