The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has in­sist­ed there was noth­ing un­usu­al about the search of a locked room at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion on Tues­day.

This, as TTPS Pub­lic In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell yes­ter­day again de­nied re­ports that a spe­cial­ist po­lice unit had raid­ed the sta­tion. He al­so dis­missed claims that of­fi­cers had been tak­en in­to cus­tody, or that search war­rants had been ex­e­cut­ed at the homes of of­fi­cers as­signed to the sta­tion.

Speak­ing at yes­ter­day’s week­ly me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing in Port-of-Spain, Rus­sell said po­lice re­ceived in­for­ma­tion on Ju­ly 6 that a room, orig­i­nal­ly used as a gym be­fore be­ing con­vert­ed in­to an of­fice, had been locked and that the key could not be lo­cat­ed.