Futile search for missing policewoman

Officers of the TT Police Service and Coast Guard returned to the Beetham and Sea Lots areas to search for the missing woman, whom it is alleged was killed and buried in a shallow grave.

Up until news time, however, there were no leads on the disappearance of the policewoman.

Joseph, 22, went missing on Thursday after leaving her home at Marie Road, Morvant, reportedly to attend to police matters.

Joseph’s mother, Paula Guy, later filed a missing person report at the Besson Street Police Station after her daughter did not return to home. Calls to Joseph’s cellular phone also went unanswered.

A 39-year-old man of Sea Lots, believed to be Joseph’s boyfriend, has since been detained by police and is assisting with the investigation into her disappearance.

Guy was not at her home yesterday when Sunday Newsday visited the small, unfinished concrete structure, perched on a hill just off Marie Road.

A neighbour said he had last seen Joseph on Tuesday when she had come to bring items for her four-year-old daughter, who is being cared for by Guy.

Although he did not know her very well, the man described Joseph as a respectable young woman. He expressed the hope that she was still alive.

Sources in Sea Lots told Sunday Newsday that Joseph and the Sea Lots man were inseparable.

“People always see them together.

They were together since she was about 16 or 17-yearsold,” a source said, adding she did not know much about the quality of their relationship.

“I cannot say if she was abused or not.” She said the man, who was once an employee of Stateowned National Flour Mills, later purchased a car and began selling DVDs in downtown Port-of- Spain.

The woman, though, said the time had come for men to engage more freely in discussions affecting them, particularly in relationships.

“Men are not talking to men enough. I feel it is a macho thing,” she said. “Too often, they just laugh it off and society has not helped by telling me that they should not cry.” Meanwhile, a release from the TT Police Service Public Affairs Unit confirmed a search was conducted yesterday for Joseph in Beetham Gardens and Sea Lots..

The release said Joseph enlisted in the Police Service on November 10, 2016 and, was, up until her disappearance, assigned to the Morvant Police Station.

The search for the missing policewoman, the statement said, began on Friday when she did not report for duty on that day. She was last seen by her colleagues at about 11 am on Thursday.

The statement said anyone with information concerning Joseph’s whereabouts should contact the nearest police station or 999.