The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) on Sunday denied having acquired an interception tool known as Pegasus Spyware Solution, (Pegasus), to illegally intercept telecommunications.
T&T’s Acting Commissioner of Police, McDonald Jacob, told a news conference that the law enforcement agency is not engaged in any illegal spying on citizens.
“We want to say in no uncertain terms that the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service would have any sort of spy software in its possession,” said Jacob, who was flanked by National Security Minister, Fitzgerald Hinds.
Last Friday, T&T’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley told Parliament that he rejected “false narratives that, the state is using Pegasus that the TTPS is conducting interception of communications outside of the suite provided and controlled by the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago”.
Rowley also denied allegations made by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar that there were individuals being targeted by law enforcement for intercept who are not under suspicion of being involved in serious criminal activity.
