Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Ali­cia Hen­ry is be­ing tipped to lead Trinidad and To­ba­go’s elite Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA).

A sea­soned in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cer with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice TTPS), Hen­ry is re­port­ed­ly set to take the helm of the SSA, mark­ing a land­mark mo­ment for the agency and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, as she would be­come the first woman to head the spy agency.

She will re­place Arthur Bar­ring­ton, who was fired by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Gov­ern­ment on May 9. Bar­ring­ton, a for­mer head of TTPS Spe­cial Branch, was ap­point­ed by the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion on April 1.