Squad car mystery: Ex-deputy police commissioner, contractor can help probe
Some of the derelict police vehicles stored at the Cumuto impound lot. - PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB
Senior police investigators believe a former acting commissioner of police, now retired, and a director of a south-based contracting company might be able to provide useful information to investigators trying to find out how a decommissioned police car ended up back in use escorting heavy machinery.
The squad car was removed from the Cumuto scrapyard. Its interception on June 24 has triggered a wider investigation and audit in search of an undisclosed number of police vehicles, outfitted with flashing blue lights and sirens, now known to be missing.
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Activist, PoS mayor tackle how to help the homeless
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The homeless bed down on the pavement in front of Royal Bank, Independence Square, Port of Spain during the curfew hours on June 19. The socially displaced are not arrested for breach of the curfew because they have no where to go. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton
A date for the opening of a drop-in shelter for the homeless on the ground floor of the Centre for Socially Displaced Persons at the Riverside Plaza car park, Port of Spain, is yet to be established.
However, Port of Spain mayor, Joel Martinez, expects work to begin soon after the Homeless Assistance Office, to be located in the same space, is completed by the NGO’s founder, Anthony Salloum.
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Port of Spain scrap dealer: Police took my copper
4 Hrs Ago
Vejai Ramlakhan, owner of VP trading on George street, is
claiming police seized over 3,000 lbs of copper left to him by his late father. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton
VEJAI RAMLAKHAN, the owner of a meat shop and illegal scrapyard on George Street, Port of Spain, is claiming police seized over 3,000 lbs of copper left to him by his late father.
Ramlakhan was charged on Saturday, after police with a search warrant entered and scrutinised the scrapyard, which was suspected of housing arms and ammunition.
None were discovered, but police found and seized five drain covers which are believed to be the city s property, as well as an undisclosed quantity of copper and various other scrap materials.