Military send off for PC Cedeno

According to police reports, Cedeno who was originally from Palo Seco and who recently moved to Egypt Village, Point Fortin, was driving a black Kia SUV at about 11.45 am on February 27, when it crashed into the iron guard rails along the highway, near the Macaulay Flyover in Claxton Bay.

There was a heavy turnout of police officers at PC Cedeno’s funeral held with full military rites. His body was escorted by police officers to the church building.

Speaking at the funeral service at Revival Time Assembly, King’s Wharf in San Fernando yesterday, Phyllis Mohan, one of Cedeno’s first cousins, noted that he was the only boy among four sisters,.

He recalled that as a child, Cedeno brought a live snake in a crocus bag into the family’s kitchen causing his sisters’ to scream and dash out of the house. Mohan said a perceptible change occurred after Cedeno was assigned to the Canine Unit where he built a “relationship of trust” with his canine partner “Jed”, an English Springer Spaniel.

Snr Superintendent Joseph of the Mounted and Canine Branch recalled that Cedeno had often said that he was “on the top of Mount Everest” whenever he worked with his canine partner Jed. Cedeno’s wife Carline accepted a framed picture of her husband from Joseph while their three children, who sat in the church’s front row, looked on. They had to be comforted when his body was taken out of the church and taken to the Los Bajos cemetery for burial