Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cers are again voic­ing frus­tra­tion over un­re­solved is­sues, in­clud­ing calls for ab­sorp­tion in­to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), im­proved re­tire­ment pack­ages, and bet­ter work­ing con­di­tions.

In an ad­ver­tise­ment pub­lished in the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, the SRPs ac­cused for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­ers and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SWA) of mak­ing false promis­es and feed­ing them lies.

The ad, ti­tled No Jus­tice for SRPs, stat­ed, “In­stead, the as­so­ci­a­tion sees oth­er things to be more rel­e­vant than the wel­fare of the SRPs, which begs the ques­tion: Could the TTP­SWA rep­re­sent the SRPs and, if not, why are they tak­ing mon­ey from them if not to on­ly give them false hope and dreams us­ing ab­sorp­tion as a po­lit­i­cal tac­tic every year to be elect­ed.”