A prison of­fi­cer as­signed to the Port-of-Spain Prison has been placed un­der a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) af­ter he was ar­rest­ed on sus­pi­cion of fa­cil­i­tat­ing the in­tro­duc­tion of pro­hib­it­ed items in­to the prison sys­tem.

Ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the TTPS, the of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed on May 1 while on du­ty at the prison af­ter of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a search of his lock­er and dis­cov­ered sev­er­al pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles.

Po­lice said the of­fi­cer had been un­der sur­veil­lance be­fore his ar­rest af­ter in­ves­ti­ga­tors re­ceived in­tel­li­gence al­leg­ing that he was in­volved in fa­cil­i­tat­ing the move­ment of pro­hib­it­ed items to in­mates with­in the prison.