A civil­ian em­ploy­ee with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) will re-ap­pear in a mag­is­trate’s court on Jan­u­ary 24, 2025, in con­nec­tion with at­tempt­ing to ob­tain TT$199,000 through forged doc­u­ments.

A TTPS state­ment said that the em­ploy­ee, Her­matie Long, who is at­tached to the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tive Build­ing, was charged by the Fraud Squad and has since ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Sookraj Gos­samie at the North Court for three of­fences–forgery, ut­ter­ing, and at­tempt­ing to ob­tain the sum by false pre­tence.

“These charges stem from an in­ci­dent re­port­ed on Feb­ru­ary 9, 2024, when Long ap­plied for a mo­tor ve­hi­cle loan at a com­mer­cial bank. As part of the ap­pli­ca­tion, Long pre­sent­ed sev­er­al doc­u­ments, in­clud­ing a job let­ter from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice. These doc­u­ments were ini­tial­ly ac­cept­ed as gen­uine by the bank. How­ev­er, up­on sub­se­quent ver­i­fi­ca­tion, the job let­ter was found to be fraud­u­lent,” the TTPS state­ment said.

The Po­lice Ser­vice re­port­ed that a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion led to the ar­rest and sub­se­quent charges against Long. She was grant­ed bail in the sum of $10,000.00, with the con­di­tion that she re­port to the po­lice sta­tion as part of her bail agree­ment.

The mat­ter has been trans­ferred to the Ari­ma Mag­is­trate Court, with a post­pone­ment to Jan­u­ary 24th, 2025.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was spear­head­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Ab­bot, Su­per­in­ten­dent Lutch­man, and In­spec­tor W. Smith, sup­port­ed by Cor­po­rals Mur­ray and Williams, as well as Con­sta­bles Ramkissoon, Jointe, Thomas, and Jaikaran.

En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.