Two senior Barbadian police officers have landed in Trinidad at the request of the government and are now quarantined at a hotel in Port of Spain.

The Inspector and a Superintendent, who arrived on Tuesday, will help investigations into corruption in the T&T Police Service, as it relates to the Drugs Sou Sou, DSS. 

The decision for the neighboring officers came at the call of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, who, as the head of the National Security Council, described the DSS as a major threat to the country’s national security. 

At a PNM Post Budget meeting last week, Dr. Rowley hinted that this had become necessary given allegations that TTPS officers and members of the Defence Force have personal interests in the matter. 

“The role of the police in that matter, the role of the defence force in that matter, the role of criminal gangs in that matter, completely unknown to the people of Trinidad and Tobago. And, I can tell you as head of the National Security Council, I have not had the simplest of answers,” he said at the time. 

In a statement last Friday, Police Commissioner Griffith welcomed the inclusion of external investigators.

“This matter has gone very deep and if we can get that international assistance, because I have Trojan horses, and it goes very high up. So if this is an avenue that can assist me in bringing possible perpetrators to justice, especially those in uniform, I welcome that decision,” Griffith said.