Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, has or­dered an au­dit in­to all po­lice uni­forms, ve­hi­cles and com­put­ers be­long­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

Si­mon’s de­ci­sion came af­ter po­lice of­fi­cers as­signed to the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB), lo­cat­ed at Gar­den Road in Aranguez, San Juan, re­port­ed uni­forms and oth­er items be­ing stolen from their lock­ers in the last week.

The most re­cent in­ci­dent was re­port­ed on Wednes­day, af­ter a po­lice con­sta­ble at the Aranguez lo­ca­tion found his lock­er bro­ken in­to and sev­er­al items miss­ing.

The of­fi­cer, who had been on leave since April 30, claimed to have placed sev­er­al items in his lock­er, which is in the SRP male dor­mi­to­ry, and left. Re­port­ing for du­ty around 6.30 am on May 2, the of­fi­cer claimed af­ter open­ing his lock­er, he ob­served the low­er part tam­pered with and up­on check­ing, dis­cov­ered items miss­ing. These in­clud­ed one dig­i­tal cam­ou­flage jack­et, one dig­i­tal cam­ou­flage pants, one tac­ti­cal belt and a bul­let­proof vest.

This lat­est in­ci­dent was re­port­ed one week af­ter three GEB of­fi­cers re­port­ed that uni­forms and oth­er items were stolen from their lock­ers in Aranguez on May 8. Among the items they re­port­ed miss­ing were dig­i­tal cam­ou­flage pants, util­i­ty belts, iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, rapid as­sault cam­ou­flage jack­ets, dump pouch­es, pis­tol hol­sters, $1,160 in cash, deb­it and cred­it cards, na­tion­al iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, and oth­er per­son­al items. The three con­sta­bles con­firmed re­port­ing the mat­ter to se­nior GEB of­fi­cers be­fore mak­ing a for­mal re­port to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.

Mean­while, Si­mon said his di­rec­tive for the au­dit to be done was is­sued last week, and he was await­ing the find­ings.

Ear­li­er this month, a pair of po­lice of­fi­cers were giv­en the all-clear to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing trans­ferred from GEB af­ter be­ing in­ter­ro­gat­ed over po­lice uni­forms that went miss­ing from an of­fice in May last year.