PRISON Officers Association (POA) head Gerard Gordon has alleged a series of ways by which the government and the police service have shown disrespect to his officers, speaking to Newsday on July 25.

His complaints followed the police service's removal of several prisoners from the Maximum Security Prison in Arouca for relocation to defence force facilities at Chaguaramas.

This occurred after President Christine Kangaloo had declared a state of emergency (SoE) on July 18 amid claims by Commissioner of Police Allister Guevarro of a pact of criminal gangs intent on harming certain state officials in the criminal justice system. On top of that, Minister of Defence Wayne Sturge has queried the positioning of a 65-inch television inside a prison cell.