More than two dozen police officers in Trinidad and Tobago are currently under watch by the T&T Police Service Professional Standards Bureau having been implicated in an intrinsic human trafficking ring operating between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago.
The investigations are occurring even as police are probing the recent illegal entry of scores of Venezuelans into T&T. Surveillance drones and a newly-formed Police Coastal Unit will come on stream over the next month to crack down on human trafficking and smuggling in the south-western peninsula.
A senior law enforcement official said over the past year polygraph tests have been done on suspected corrupt South Western Division officers. Those who refused to do the tests were transferred out of the division, the source said, adding drugs busts in recent times were done by officers outside the division.
