Cop threatens to kill family

Newsday learnt that at about 6 am on Saturday, the off-duty officer went to a house occupied by the 51-year-old mother and her two children. He began threatening to burn down the house with the occupants inside. Police said that he took up a red container which contained a flammable substance and began to douse furniture and other household items.

However, he subsequently left without setting the house ablaze and the mother lodged a report at the South Oropouche Police Station.

Police said that a “chair was well soaked” and that he had worked at the Siparia CID “for many years” as a detective.

The officer retired from the TTPS about three years ago, and returned as an SRP.

An arrest is yet to be made and Woman Cpl Narine-Singh is investigating.