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Sascha Wil­son

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from al­le­ga­tions made by Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice­man (SRP) Rus­sell Be­dasse in a se­ries of so­cial me­dia videos fol­low­ing the death of his moth­er.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Op­er­a­tions) Suzette Mar­tin said the videos had re­ceived sig­nif­i­cant at­ten­tion but were per­son­al in na­ture and did not rep­re­sent the poli­cies, prin­ci­ples, or op­er­a­tional po­si­tions of the TTPS.