SRP to go on ID parades today

The 32-year-old suspended Special Reserve Police (SRP) officer who was arrested Saturday after a robbery and the shooting of a Highway Patrol officer is to be placed on identification parades today.

Police sources told Newsday that the officer may also be placed on ID parades relative to robbery-related offences from last year to present.  He was up to late yesterday being detained at the La Horquetta Police Station. The SRP was picked up by officers of the St Joseph and Tunapuna Criminal Investiga-tions Department (CID) after Ramsaroop’s Furniture Store in El Dorado was relieved of $22,000 and PC Edric Jeremy was shot in the right thigh.

Four armed men, three with cutlasses, the other with a .380 Baretta pistol, had stormed the furniture store, and pointed a gun at the head of proprietor Basdeo Ramsaroop, 67. They also plannassed a relative. An eyewitness contacted the Emergency-999 and Highway Patrol officers, PCs Jeremy and Bassant responded after which the former was shot. The bandits then drove off in two vehicles, one of which crashed about 200 yards from the robbery incident.

The SRP was held, allegedly with the .380 Baretta pistol, while the other three managed to escape and had not been captured up to late evening.  Tunapuna police are continuing inquiries. PC Jeremy, meantime is resting comfortably at Medical Associates, where he was transferred to from the Mount Hope Medical Sciences Complex.