More than 250 peo­ple ar­rest­ed at a zesseer par­ty on Sun­day morn­ing will be charged by way of sum­mons rather than de­tained in cells at po­lice sta­tions be­cause ofthe pos­si­bil­i­ty of the spread of the COVID-19 virus, ac­cord­ing to Head of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, Se­nior Supt Curt Si­mon.

“The Cen­tral Di­vi­sion is very re­spon­si­ble when it comes to main­tain­ing law and or­der and pre­vent­ing and re­duc­ing dis­or­der," he said.

“We are tak­ing af­fir­ma­tive ac­tion in pro­ceed­ing to lay charges to over 250 per­sons who would have been present at the Zess­er Par­ty this week­end. The Di­vi­sion is tak­ing in­to con­sid­er­a­tion the per­son­al safe­ty of all in­volved, in­clud­ing the po­lice of­fi­cers.

"While we are aware we could ar­rest these per­sons, a de­ci­sion has been tak­en to charge all in­volved by way of sum­mons in this mat­ter. This will en­sure that the health of the po­lice and the court com­mu­ni­ty will re­main in­tact and un­ob­scured. This is ex­pect­ed to be an ar­du­ous task that will take at least a week to com­plete,” he said.

Sev­er­al units of the TTPS, in­clud­ing SORT, MOPS, and the An­ti-Gang Unit, de­scend­ed up­on a ware­house at Kel­ly Vil­lage, Ca­roni, on Sun­day morn­ing where more than 250 per­sons were at­tend­ing a Zess­er Par­ty.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.