Two more po­lice of­fi­cers have been or­dered to be held un­der the pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders, bring­ing to five the num­ber of serv­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers cur­rent­ly held un­der State of Emer­gency pow­ers.

Ac­cord­ing to Le­gal No­tices 139 and 140, Jali­ni Pri­ma and Ste­fano An­to­nio Ha­ban, both serv­ing TTPS mem­bers, are ac­cused of mem­ber­ship in an in­for­mal crim­i­nal gang. Both men are al­so al­leged to be in­volved in abuse of pub­lic of­fice, ex­tor­tion, tip­ping-off, and fa­cil­i­tat­ing se­ri­ous crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

The of­fi­cers join their col­leagues Pra­manan Ra­j­path, Elon Alexan­der and Ste­fon Khan at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre.