Akash Sama­roo

Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les is al­leg­ing that the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) fleet of 51 new elec­tric pa­trol ve­hi­cles was not pur­chased out­right by the State but in­stead leased through a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar arrange­ment with a com­pa­ny in­cor­po­rat­ed short­ly af­ter last year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Speak­ing at a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) meet­ing in Arou­ca on Thurs­day night, Gon­za­les claimed the ve­hi­cles un­veiled with much fan­fare last month are owned by a pri­vate com­pa­ny, which he said has links to an­oth­er firm that has al­ready ben­e­fit­ed from Gov­ern­ment con­tracts, in­clud­ing one cur­rent­ly un­der scruti­ny.