Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin has dis­missed claims there was a “pow­er play” at work by se­nior T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) mem­bers to un­der­mine and wrest con­trol from his pre­de­ces­sor, Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher.

In fact, Ben­jamin yes­ter­day de­fend­ed the team of in­ves­ti­ga­tors led by the Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions (I&I), Suzette Mar­tin, as he said she and of­fi­cers in her unit per­formed their du­ties with­out favour or ill-will.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view at his of­fice at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, last evening, Ben­jamin said, “I think we need to be very hon­est in look­ing at what was said by the DPP and al­so by the judge, and all of them spoke high­ly in terms of the ar­rest that was made, which in it­self was law­ful.”