TTPS probes animal cruelty incident after viral video

Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er (DCP) Suzette Mar­tin is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions are be­ing car­ried out in­to sev­er­al in­ci­dents of an­i­mal cru­el­ty in the Tal­paro/San Rafael area.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, she said the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) was alert­ed af­ter a video ap­peared on so­cial me­dia which al­leged­ly de­pict­ed acts of cru­el­ty be­ing com­mit­ted against an an­i­mal.

She ad­vised the pub­lic that the “in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­mains open and ac­tive, as well as ad­di­tion­al in­quiries are be­ing un­der­tak­en, in­clud­ing the in­ter­view­ing of rel­e­vant per­sons and the record­ing of state­ments, with a view to es­tab­lish­ing all of the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the al­le­ga­tions.”