Wrong methods at roadblock

THE EDITOR: Do members of the taxpaying public have any ‘rights’ when it comes to alleged police roadblocks or are we at the total mercy of any armed man who yells ‘police’? How are members of the public who are not engaged in criminal activity supposed to respond when the men who accosted me: a) refused to identify themselves; b) were not in police uniform and c) had no police badge on their clothing? Is this the normal behaviour for the police when they carry out legitimate roadblocks? Isn’t there supposed to be at least one person in police uniform. I never saw any in front of Kay Donna at a recent roadblock. What were they looking for? Did they find it?

I hope you find this incident which I had experienced worthy of publication, if only to alert the public of Trinidad and Tobago as to the methods that the alleged ‘police’ are currently using.

L WILKES
St Joseph