A spe­cial re­serve po­lice of­fi­cer has been ar­rest­ed and charged fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­duct­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment.

The part-time SRP Con­sta­ble, at­tached to the Mo­ri­ah Po­lice Sta­tion, was ar­rest­ed on April 15. He is fac­ing charges of kid­nap­ping, false im­pris­on­ment and com­mon as­sault.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said that on March 18, the vic­tim—who was in a com­mon-law re­la­tion­ship with the ac­cused at the time—was walk­ing along Vil­lage Street, Mt St George when the ac­cused al­leged­ly ap­proached her in a mo­tor ve­hi­cle.

Po­lice re­port that the ac­cused then forcibly placed the vic­tim in­to the ve­hi­cle against her will and re­strained her us­ing hand­cuffs.

He al­leged­ly drove her to a forest­ed area off Dam Road, Mt St George, where she was as­sault­ed and threat­ened with a cut­lass. The ac­cused lat­er re­leased the vic­tim and re­turned her to her res­i­dence.

W/Cpl James led the in­ves­ti­ga­tion and com­piled a file which was sub­mit­ted to the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions. Fol­low­ing le­gal ad­vice, charges were laid against the sus­pect.

Su­per­in­ten­dent Dar­ryl Ram­dass, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Avril Fran­cis and W/In­spec­tor Sookram-Loutan su­per­vised and co­or­di­nat­ed the op­er­a­tion.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Natasha George, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Richard Smith and As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Rishi Singh pro­vid­ed ex­ec­u­tive over­sight.