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Rooms once used for investigations and ID parades at police stations have been converted into virtual courtrooms, leaving police officers severely inconvenienced and crippling police work.

“When we visited to understand the question of virtual courtrooms, we saw first-hand that the police are totally discommoded...It is close to boiling point,” Justice Minister Devesh Maharaj said after a walk-through at the Besson Street Police Station, Port of Spain, on August 18.

With him were Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander and the permanent secretaries of both ministries.