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The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has in­ves­ti­gat­ed 28 cas­es in­volv­ing for­eign na­tion­als be­tween 2017 and 2025—with 20 closed and ten still un­der probe—ac­cord­ing to a re­port.

The re­port, ti­tled Blue­print for Over­sight that Lis­tens: Pol­i­cy Lessons and Op­er­a­tional Strate­gies from the PCA’s Re­sponse to Mi­grant Com­plaints in Trinidad and To­ba­go, out­lines key trends, chal­lenges, and pol­i­cy lessons from the au­thor­i­ty’s work with mi­grant com­plainants.

It found that many cas­es were closed with­out re­fer­ral be­cause com­plainants with­drew, of­ten out of fear of de­por­ta­tion, reprisal, or be­cause of their un­cer­tain le­gal sta­tus. Lan­guage bar­ri­ers and lim­it­ed ac­cess to sup­port ser­vices al­so made it dif­fi­cult for in­ves­ti­ga­tors to take state­ments or ver­i­fy ev­i­dence.