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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Sando cops in the dark

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Sascha Wilson
362 days ago
20240223
Police officers outside the San Fernando Police Station during an electrical problem which left the station in darkness on Wednesday.  

Police officers outside the San Fernando Police Station during an electrical problem which left the station in darkness on Wednesday.  

RISHI RAGOONATH

For sev­er­al hours on Wednes­day night, of­fi­cers of the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion were forced to work in dark­ness fol­low­ing a black­out.

Guardian Me­dia was told yes­ter­day that it was not the first time such an out­age had oc­curred. An of­fi­cer at the sta­tion blamed the black­out on an on­go­ing is­sue with the elec­tri­cal wiring in the build­ing and the gen­er­a­tor.

The of­fi­cer, who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty since he was not au­tho­rised to speak to the me­dia, said the elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply “was go­ing on and off” since Tues­day but cut off at 5 pm on Wednes­day.

The TTPS’ Fa­cil­i­ty Man­age­ment was in­formed, and at 11 pm the elec­tric­i­ty was re­stored.

The of­fi­cer said, “This hap­pened a cou­ple months ago and still they didn’t fix the is­sue with the gen­er­a­tor. Apart from that, the wiring old and some­times it smells as though some­thing burn­ing.”

When the black­out oc­curred, the of­fi­cer said, there were no can­dles in the sta­tion, so po­lice of­fi­cers re­lied on light from their cell­phones to con­duct their du­ties.

How­ev­er, TTPS So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) pres­i­dent ASP Gideon Dick­son yes­ter­day said the is­sue was not brought to his at­ten­tion. He said he would in­quire and re­spond ac­cord­ing­ly.

Mean­while, the TTPS’s Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions De­part­ment said Guardian Me­dia’s ques­tions on the in­ci­dent were sent to ACP South Ali­cia Hen­ry. How­ev­er, up to late last evening no re­sponse was forth­com­ing.


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