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A heat­ed T&T Po­lice Ser­vice meet­ing on Wednes­day led to a walk­out by some dis­grun­tled Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers up­set with the cur­rent ab­sorp­tion pol­i­cy.

The of­fi­cers have raised is­sues over the pro­mo­tion­al op­por­tu­ni­ties and ab­sorp­tion cri­te­ria.

Re­spond­ing to con­cerns by SRPs yes­ter­day, how­ev­er, TTPS Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Ju­nior Ben­jamin, said, “We will not leave you out in the cold, but we can­not con­tin­ue to op­er­ate as we have in the past.”