Anand Ramlogan, Trinidad & Tobago’s Attorney General, is reportedly asking acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams to conduct an investigation into the leak of reports by the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) on the New Flying Squad Investigative Unit.
According to a report in the Trinidad & Guardian newspaper, Ramlogan made the request in a letter to Williams on Tuesday, hours after PCA director Gillian Lucky told a parliamentary Joint Select Committee hearing that the report was not a confidential document, as claimed by Ramlogan.
It was Opposition Senator Faris Al-Rawi, the newspaper reports, who first told the Senate about the report two weeks ago. He reportedly said then that he had two reports – one from the PCA and the other T&T Police Service – which recommended that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) pursue criminal investigations into police officers for their role in the squad. The squad was re-established in 2012.
In a release on Tuesday, confirming that he had sent the letter to Williams, Ramlogan said the “belated admission by Ms Lucky that the report is not confidential is troubling.”
He insisted that section 21 (4) of the PCA Act states that all information and evidence obtained by the PCA in the performance of its duties is confidential and it is a criminal offence for anyone to disclose such information, an act which is punishable with five years imprisonment.
“If the report is not a confidential one that could be leaked to the PNM (the opposition People’s National Movement)why not simply give the parliament, the government and the media a copy,” Ramlogan said, while maintaining that it was “shocking and confusing” for Lucky to say the document was not confidential.
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AG wants probe into leak of report by Police Complaints Authority in T&T
