Team Prime victorious in Police Association elections

Shane Su­perville

Se­nior Re­porter

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Months of un­cer­tain­ty, court pro­ceed­ings and cam­paign­ing end­ed with Team Prime re­tain­ing lead­er­ship of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) af­ter Mon­day’s elec­tions.

Team Prime, orig­i­nal­ly led by ASP Gideon Dick­son, has led the as­so­ci­a­tion for two terms af­ter win­ning the 2019 elec­tions and de­feat­ing then In­sp Sean Clarke of the Po­lice Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty.

In May, act­ing ASP Ish­mael Pitt suc­ceed­ed Dick­son as the head of Team Prime, lead­ing the par­ty for the first time through its in­ter­nal elec­tion.

Ac­cord­ing to pre­lim­i­nary re­sults from the as­so­ci­a­tion’s elec­tion com­mit­tee, Team Prime, led by act­ing ASP Ish­mael Pitt of the North­ern Di­vi­sion, emerged as the clear win­ner, earn­ing 756 votes for pres­i­dent.

In sec­ond place, act­ing In­sp An­cil Forde of Trust Unit­ed earned 422 votes, while ACP Anand Rame­sar of Team Eq­ui­ty re­ceived 256 votes.

For vice pres­i­dent, act­ing ASP Owie Rus­sell earned 663 votes, while ASP Nathalie John se­cured the po­si­tion of sec­re­tary with 746 votes. Both Rus­sell and John al­so rep­re­sent­ed Team Prime.

Guardian Me­dia at­tempt­ed to con­tact Pitt for com­ment via phone and What­sApp but was un­suc­cess­ful.