Nine peo­ple be­ing held un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), along with two prison of­fi­cers, have been charged with mul­ti­ple of­fences fol­low­ing a Pris­on­er Pro­cess­ing Ex­er­cise con­duct­ed on Fri­day at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre and the Ex­tend­ed Re­mand Fa­cil­i­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, Prison Of­fi­cers Gary Gour and Damien John­son were each charged with pos­ses­sion of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles fol­low­ing ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions. The charges were laid by Cpl Williams and WPC Joseph of the DCP Op­er­a­tions Team.

Esau Nicholas Mo­hammed was charged by PC Perkins of the In­ter-Agency Task Force with pos­ses­sion of firearms for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, pos­ses­sion of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing, pos­ses­sion of cannabis and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion.