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Friday, April 4, 2025

Another prison officer found with contraband

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
1192 days ago
20211228
Carrera Island

Carrera Island

RHON­DOR DOWLAT-ROS­TANT

An­oth­er prison of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed af­ter he was found with con­tra­band in his pos­ses­sion.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, he was found in pos­ses­sion of 20 packs of cig­a­rettes, two sealed bot­tles of liq­uids la­belled ‘White Oak’, three cell phones and two charg­ers at the Car­rera Is­land Con­vict Prison on Mon­day at 2.15 pm.

Ac­cord­ing to ini­tial re­ports, the of­fi­cer, who has over nine years of ser­vice, re­port­ed for du­ty and was sub­ject­ed to a rou­tine search dur­ing which the con­tra­band items were found.

He was cau­tioned about the unau­tho­rized items found in his pos­ses­sion, and of­fi­cers of the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion were called in.

They es­cort­ed the of­fi­cer to the sta­tion for ques­tion­ing.

In a state­ment is­sued by the T&T Pris­ons Ser­vice, Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons, Den­nis Pul­chan, said mea­sures im­ple­ment­ed to al­le­vi­ate traf­fick­ing by of­fi­cers will con­tin­ue as they have proven ex­treme­ly ef­fec­tive.

He, how­ev­er, lament­ed that their un­law­ful ac­tions cast a neg­a­tive im­age on the Pris­ons Ser­vice but not­ed that “it is ab­solute­ly nec­es­sary to elim­i­nate the rogue el­e­ments, as they negate the work of the hard-work­ing of­fi­cers and put lives of their col­leagues at risk.”


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