SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

A for­mer school teacher will ap­pear in a vir­tu­al hear­ing be­fore a Siparia Mag­is­trate to­day, charged with three counts of im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, 58-year-old Robin Kr­ish­na Ma­haraj was ar­rest­ed last Fri­day at the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) and of­fi­cers of the Siparia Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID.)

Po­lice say Ma­haraj re­peat­ed­ly pre­sent­ed him­self as a Po­lice In­spec­tor at the Siparia Po­lice Sta­tion.

How­ev­er, when asked to present his TTPS iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card, Ma­haraj could not.

A search was done of his Eyg­pt Vil­lage, En­deav­our home, where po­lice found he had a ve­hi­cle fit­ted with a ra­dio set and swiv­el lights.

He was ar­rest­ed and charged on Mon­day 18th Jan­u­ary 2021.