As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP) Owie Rus­sell has de­fend­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) re­sponse to Wednes­day’s protest-re­lat­ed ar­rests, say­ing of­fi­cers act­ed with­in es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures and un­der ex­ist­ing le­gal frame­works.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, ASP Rus­sell ad­dressed pub­lic con­cern over the ar­rest of two peo­ple dur­ing a protest seek­ing jus­tice for Joshua Sama­roo and Ka­ia Sealy near the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions’ of­fice on Wednes­day.

He said the Guard and Emer­gency Branch was de­ployed be­cause it was a sen­si­tive area of op­er­a­tion.