THE detention of an acting assistant superintendent of prisons has taken a new turn into a potential court battle, after his attorney issued a pre-action protocol letter questioning his alleged transfer under the ongoing state of emergency.

According to the letter, the officer was detained on August 21 by the police and taken to the Eastern Correctional Rehabilitation Centre (ECRC), Santa Rosa, where a detention order, dated August 18, was read to him. He remained at ECRC until September 4, when prison officials allegedly received instructions to hand him over to police officers.

Attorney Krystal Primus said while a revocation order was presented by an inspector of police to prison officers at the ECRC, it gave no details of her client’s new place of detention.