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| Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams |
"Reprehensible, unacceptable and unprofessional." were the words of acting Commission of Police (CoP) Stephen Williams,to describe the action of a police officer who slapped in a citizen in the face before taking him to a marked police car.
"The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service will never support officers behaving in such unacceptable manners. I see it as unprofessional and we are really working hard at getting a professional organisation and it is incidents like these which take away from the hard work of officers as we seek to build a professional organisation," Williams added.
Williams said the matter is being "effectively addressed" and has been deemed as "high priority". However the said the officer in question will remain on duty during the investigation.
Other viewers of the video were, Minister of Security Jack Warner and head of the Police Complaints Authority Gillian Lucky.
Williams said the matter is being "effectively addressed", with investigations being conducted by both the Police Service's Professional Standards Unit and the Police Complaints Authority .
Meanwhile,Terrence Augustine, who has been identified as the man slapped in the video, appeared before a San Fernando magistrate on Tuesday charged with resisting arrest, assaulting the officer and using insulting language.
Augustine is said to have assaulted constable Richard Kishore.
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