SRP charged with larceny of a cable box

A 19-year-old Special Reserve Policeman with six months service  will this morning appear before an Arima magistrate charged with larceny of a television cable box. According to information, around 12.15 pm Saturday, two employees of Ram Communication Limited of Mt Hope Road were delivering cable connections to the home of Pralawh Manwah of Malabar Road, Arima, when a bareback man was observed taking a cable box from the van and running away.

At the same time a patrolling police vehicle was passing; the officers were stopped and given a description of the man. The officers responded and held the SRP a short distance away. He took them to a nearby piece of land where the box was found. The SRP who is attached to Police Administration building, St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain was arrested and charged with larceny. When contacted, several senior officers expressed concern about many of the SRPs who came into the service recently without a background check, but through family, friends and political connections. “Several of these officers are not fit to be even a security guard.

“Many cannot even write or make a proper sentence, and have questionable backgrounds.” The SRP of Malabar was charged by PC Gangadeen of the Malabar Police Post. Two weeks ago another SRP constable from the same programme, Nigel Maxwell, was charged by Corporal Wayne Winston for receiving stolen items and driving a stolen car. That matter was adjourned to September 13 also at the Arima Magistrate Court.