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The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that of­fi­cers seen in a vi­ral video trans­port­ing a young woman to her grad­u­a­tion in a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle act­ed law­ful­ly and with prop­er au­tho­ri­sa­tion.

An in­ter­nal re­view, led by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er Wayne Mys­tar, found that the of­fi­cers had re­ceived per­mis­sion from their sta­tion’s com­mand­ing of­fi­cer be­fore car­ry­ing out the es­cort.

In a me­dia re­lease, the TTPS said: “The cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing the en­gage­ment were con­sis­tent with the TTPS’ Strate­gic Plan 2025–2027, which iden­ti­fies Com­mu­ni­ty Part­ner­ships as a foun­da­tion­al strate­gic pil­lar in im­prov­ing pub­lic trust and con­fi­dence.”