Police buying vehicle for Office of CoP, not for commissioner

The Police service issued a media release Tuesday clarifying the purchase of a vehicle for use by the Commissioner of Police. The statement explained that while the present commissioner will have use of the vehicle, it will belong to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

The formal police statement is published below:

"A statement made in the media regarding the purchase of a vehicle by an Executive of the TTPS is malicious and mischievous. 

"The official vehicle of the Office of the Commissioner of Police was decommissioned in September, 2010. Since then, the TTPS initiated the process for the identification and purchase of a vehicle for the Office of the Commissioner of Police.

"Statements in the media have made aspersions that the vehicle is a personal item being purchased by an Executive of the TTPS. 

"On the contrary, the vehicle is not a personal item, but is being purchased by the TTPS for the use of Office of the Commissioner of Police. The sitting Commissioner will have use of the official vehicle. The vehicle will be the property of the TTPS and not the Commissioner of Police.

"To suggest that there is impropriety in the TTPS regarding the purchase of a vehicle for the Office of the Commissioner of Police is supercilious and contemptuous. 

"Moreover, the attempt by persons to make a connection between the negotiation of the terms and conditions for the officers of the TTPS and the purchase of a vehicle by the organisation is undoubtly malicious and misleading.

"The negotiations for the terms and conditions of Police officers fall squarely under the remit of the Chief Personnel Officer and not the Office of the Commissioner of Police or the Executive of the TTPS."

Public Affairs Unit | Trinidad and Tobago Police Service