Man arrested for impersonating police officer

A 23-year-old Arou­ca man was ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day for im­per­son­at­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer, ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

The TTPS re­port­ed that of­fi­cers car­ried out an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion on March 4 which led to the ar­rest and the seizure of sev­er­al coun­ter­feit po­lice items, in­clud­ing a fake TTPS iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card and po­lice kit.

Of­fi­cers from the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force West, North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force East and the Spe­cial Branch con­duct­ed the ex­er­cise.

Po­lice said that at about 12:30 pm of­fi­cers re­ceived co­or­di­nat­ed in­tel­li­gence that a sus­pi­cious in­di­vid­ual be­lieved to be armed and un­law­ful­ly pos­ing as a TTPS of­fi­cer was in the vicin­i­ty of Pi­ar­co Old Road.

Of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to the in­for­ma­tion and car­ried out a search at the sus­pect’s res­i­dence along Pi­ar­co Old Road.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers seized sev­er­al items be­lieved to be coun­ter­feit po­lice equip­ment, in­clud­ing a fake TTPS ID card and oth­er po­lice gear.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed the 23-year-old man dur­ing the ex­er­cise.