A prison of­fi­cer is in cus­tody af­ter be­ing found with drugs and oth­er pro­hib­it­ed items dur­ing a joint search ex­er­cise at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP) in Arou­ca on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, the co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tion was car­ried out by the TTPS and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice to main­tain the in­tegri­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of the na­tion’s pris­ons.

The ex­er­cise, which be­gan around 8 a.m., was su­per­vised by Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Hay­den Forde, and Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin. It was ex­e­cut­ed by the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions) Team, led by ASP Stan­ley, along with Cor­po­rals Williams and Hyde.