With four days left to go be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) ends on April 13, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials are work­ing dili­gent­ly to fi­nalise charges to be brought against some peo­ple who have been de­tained. These charges could be laid on or be­fore the end of this week.

Con­firm­ing this dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, ex­plained while some of the 50 de­tainees would be re­leased when it ex­pires on Sun­day, this would not pre­vent in­ves­ti­ga­tors from lay­ing charges lat­er on.

Se­nior mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) met on Mon­day to dis­cuss how they would ad­dress turn­ing in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven da­ta in­to ac­tion­able of­fences. The group of 50 that were de­tained un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) re­main in­car­cer­at­ed at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC), San­ta Rosa, Ari­ma.