Second cop hauled in under SoE PDO

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter has or­dered the de­ten­tion of 24 more peo­ple be­lieved to be in­volved in gang ac­tiv­i­ties, in­clud­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer held for al­leged­ly tip­ping off crim­i­nals.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) gazetted yes­ter­day and signed on Tues­day, 17 were for gang mem­bers, two for gang lead­ers and five oth­ers were for peo­ple be­lieved to be as­sist­ing gangs.

Among those de­tained was po­lice of­fi­cer Ste­fon Khan, who was held for util­is­ing his po­si­tion to pro­vide ac­cess to polic­ing fa­cil­i­ties to a mem­ber of a gang.

He is the sec­ond po­lice of­fi­cer held since the State of Emer­gency was de­clared on March 3.

Pra­manan Ra­j­path, who is at­tached to the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, was al­so among 11 peo­ple or­dered de­tained un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, on March 16. Ra­j­path was iden­ti­fied for sup­ply­ing op­er­a­tional in­tel­li­gence to or­gan­ised crime groups, cre­at­ing a risk of im­mi­nent at­tacks be­tween ri­val gangs us­ing high-pow­ered firearms in pub­lic spaces.

In the lat­est PDOs, Bran­don Sook­nanan was al­so or­dered de­tained for his in­volve­ment in kid­nap­pings.

Keron Lewis, Rakesh Nar­ine and Bran­don Chit­lal were al­so list­ed as be­ing in­volved in gang ac­tiv­i­ty, in­clud­ing stor­ing, trans­port­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing guns, drugs and am­mu­ni­tion for gangs.

The al­leged gang lead­ers were iden­ti­fied as Bran­don “Dover” Dick­son, who leads a fac­tion of the Sev­en Gang, and Seon “Park­er” Lewis, leader of a fac­tion of an un­named gang.

O’ Mar­ley Nurse and An­ton Oliviere (Sev­en Gang); Shaquille Nurse and Trevor Bar­ton (Nine Gang); Shel­don Jem­mot, Jamol Gillard, Ron­delle Pierre, Dono­van Hinds, De­on Gillard (Six Gang) and Jovon Jack­son (Bayshore 3 Gang) were al­so or­dered de­tained as mem­bers of gangs.

Mem­bers of un­named gangs were iden­ti­fied as Giustin Lopez, An­gel Fuentes, Jor­dan Fras­er, Pablo Ri­vas, An­to­nio Men­doza, Ni­keem Baksh and Tyrese Williams.