T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee (TTOC) pres­i­dent Di­ane Hen­der­son is call­ing for the re­turn of the stolen serv­er units, that crim­i­nals made off with on Thurs­day night.

The of­fice of the TTOC on Aber­crom­bie Street in Port-of-Spain were bro­ken in­to and the crim­i­nals at­tacked the IT equip­ment.

Hen­der­son told Guardian Me­dia Sports that she got the call just af­ter mid­night and made her way to Olympic House along with staff mem­bers.

The new pres­i­dent, who took up the reins of the TTOC from Bri­an Lewis, said the serv­er units which make up the serv­er with the com­put­er in­for­ma­tion were tak­en, along with some cloth­ing and oth­er small items.

Hen­der­son said the val­ue of what was tak­en was not sim­ply mon­e­tary.

She ex­plained: “It’s im­por­tant for us to do our work. To some­one out­side, it’s just hard­ware, that may be the val­ue to them, but to us, it is about be­ing able to con­tin­ue our work for the ath­letes and the young peo­ple of T&T.”

With this coun­try be­ing con­firmed as the host of the Com­mon­wealth Youth Games that will be host­ed in Au­gust 2023, Hen­der­son is more con­cerned about the ef­fect of the loss of the in­for­ma­tion con­tained in the serv­er units.

“With the Com­mon­wealth Games com­ing up, we would have al­ready start­ed (prepa­ra­tions), and it is im­por­tant for us to have this data­base and this in­for­ma­tion. We are putting out a call to get these units back so that we can con­tin­ue our work,” said Hen­der­son.

The TTOC al­ready has plans to re­lo­cate its of­fice and is ac­tive­ly search­ing for a new home.

Hen­der­son told Guardian Me­dia Sports: “There is one, but we are con­sid­er­ing. We just want to look again.”

Amid the ran­sacked of­fice where the per­pe­tra­tors left pa­per and oth­er items all over the room, packed box­es can be seen ly­ing, wait­ing to be tak­en to their new home, but the TTOC is not go­ing to run to any new lo­ca­tion.

Hen­der­son said the new lo­ca­tion must not on­ly be ready to move in­to but there must be se­cu­ri­ty where the staff will be com­fort­able.

While the Olympic Com­mit­tee is await­ing the re­pairs to be com­plet­ed, they will work re­mote­ly, a prac­tice they have grown ac­cus­tomed to dur­ing the last two and a half years due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.