SSA gets new director to replace Col. Griffith

New intelligence chief Bisnath Maharaj

Trinidad & Tobago has a new Director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA). He is Bisnath Maharaj, an Assistant Superintendent assigned to the Special Branch of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS).

Maharaj is one of five police officers called to the bar on March 29.

The SSA is a merged organisation comprising the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA), the disbanded Special Anti-Crime Unit of Trinidad and Tobago (SAUTT) and the SSA.

It is the intention of the government to make the SSA the country's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) once legislation to effect the change is approved by Parliament.

Maharaj will succeed Col Albert Griffith who was appointed in March 2011 following the resignation of Reshmi Ramnarine. Griffith's term of office ended on February 29.