Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he fol­lowed es­tab­lished pro­ce­dures when he took five days of emer­gency leave ear­li­er this month to trav­el out­side Trinidad and To­ba­go, but he re­mains tight-lipped about the rea­son for the trip.

In a state­ment, Gue­var­ro said he ap­plied to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der on Au­gust 10 for emer­gency leave af­ter re­ceiv­ing in­for­ma­tion from the Di­rec­tor of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency and the Head of Spe­cial Branch.

He said the min­is­ter ap­proved the re­quest, and he was sub­se­quent­ly in­formed that the rel­e­vant cor­re­spon­dence had been for­ward­ed to the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion.