Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing threats made against prison of­fi­cers.

Yes­ter­day, ACP Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion Curt Si­mon said po­lice of­fi­cers are prob­ing the threats as the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion placed its mem­bers on high alert. The as­so­ci­a­tion’s ex­ec­u­tive is ex­pect­ed to meet to­day on the mat­ter.

As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don said that on Jan­u­ary 10 he briefly spoke with act­ing Prison Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe who con­firmed the lat­est threat.

On Fri­day, the as­so­ci­a­tion post­ed on its Face­book page, “All mem­bers, please be on high alert. In­for­ma­tion com­ing is that a hefty boun­ty may have been placed on ANY mem­ber of the Trinidad & To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice.”

Yes­ter­day, Gor­don said of­fi­cers were tak­ing the threat se­ri­ous­ly. 

He de­clined to give any de­tails re­gard­ing the threats but con­firmed that they came from with­in the prison walls as there has been an in­crease in search­es, par­tic­u­lar­ly since the State of Emer­gency was an­nounced.

ACP Si­mon told Guardian Me­dia that in an SoE, there is a heavy fo­cus on crim­i­nal en­ti­ties which ex­ist in the pub­lic space and in prison and they ex­pect­ed push­back.

Si­mon added, “We are not per­turbed by any threats.”

Mean­while, Gor­don said the as­so­ci­a­tion was hop­ing to meet with the act­ing Prison Com­mis­sion­er this week.

When con­tact­ed act­ing Com­mis­sion­er Cor­raspe urged all prison of­fi­cers to be vig­i­lant. He as­sured the TTPS and all arms of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty were treat­ing with the threats made against prison of­fi­cers.