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Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs), Mu­nic­i­pal and Tran­sit po­lice of­fi­cers can join the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion and par­tic­i­pate in its in­ter­nal ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions.

High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad is­sued the de­c­la­ra­tion yes­ter­day as he en­tered a con­sent or­der in a law­suit brought by a group of mem­bers, who were con­test­ing the elec­tions un­der the ban­ner Voic­es in Blue and pur­sued le­gal ac­tion to de­rail the poll on June 30.

How­ev­er, the po­si­tion does not im­me­di­ate­ly clear the way for the elec­tions to pro­ceed, as an in­junc­tion was grant­ed by Jus­tice Seep­er­sad. He must still rule on whether As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Anand Rame­sar should be pre­clud­ed from con­test­ing the elec­tions, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly served three terms on the ex­ec­u­tive—twice as pres­i­dent and once as sec­re­tary.