A po­lice of­fi­cer and a Trini­bad artiste are among the lat­est peo­ple to have de­ten­tion or­ders is­sued against them.

Ac­cord­ing to the de­ten­tion or­ders gazetted on Mon­day, con­sta­ble Phillip Mar­cus Aw­ing will re­main in cus­tody un­til the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends in Feb­ru­ary next year. He was de­tained for his al­leged in­volve­ment in a plot to mur­der a Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter.

Ac­cord­ing to the Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der, Aw­ing, of Roy Mootoo Av­enue, San­gre Grande, is a mem­ber of an or­gan­ised crime group (OCG) in­volved in traf­fick­ing il­le­gal arms, mon­ey laun­der­ing, and il­le­gal quar­ry­ing.