Seven Police Officers Charged With Multiple Offences To Face Sangre Grande Magistrate

Seven police officers are due to appear at the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court, after they were charged with multiple offences today.

The charges were laid after officers of the Professional Standards Bureau conducted investigations into a social media video, which allegedly showed police officers seizing cash at a business place in the Eastern Division.

The officers were arrested Monday, then an audience was held with Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard who advised that charges be laid.

The charges include misbehaviour in Public Office, Corruptly appropriating for themselves the sum of $27,693, which was seized as an exhibit during an exercise, wilfully Making False Written Statements to implicate a victim in a criminal investigation involving the operation of an illegal gaming house.

Inspector Deyal Ramlakhan and Special Reserve Police Officer Cleon Smith were both charged previously with Misbehaviour in Public Office, and were each granted bail in the sum of $250,000, with a surety, after they appeared before Magistrate Cheron Raphael at the Sangre Grande Magistrates’ Court on APRIL 20^THthis year.