COP AND FORMER SSA DIRECTOR DETAINED

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00:00The police administration building, ironically, the headquarters of the

00:04Commission of Police, turned into an interrogation room for today after she

00:08was interviewed by investigators into the ongoing SSA probe into the

00:12importation of two sniper rifles for the SSA in 2023. This, sources say, triggered

00:19an emergency cabinet meeting by the government. TV6 News understands that

00:23investigators from the Office of Deputy Commissioner of Investigations and

00:26Intelligence, Suzette Martin, approached the Commissioner and spent several hours

00:31interviewing her this afternoon. TV6 News was reliably informed that the

00:35Commissioner is expected to be detained overnight as the probe continues and

00:40that Corporal Adrian Smith of the Investigations and Intelligence Unit

00:43would have questioned the Commissioner. The Commissioner was questioned in the

00:47high-profile investigation that has been ongoing for 10 months, less than 24 hours

00:53after former SSA Director Major Roger Best was detained late Wednesday

00:57evening by police officers at his home in Pinewood Drive, Old Town Road, Arima

01:01after a warrant was executed there. Senior police sources told TV6 News that

01:07they were investigating who had signed off on the documents to allow for the

01:10importation of the weapons that ended up in the SSA. In July 2024, Prime Minister

01:16Dr. Keith Rowley revealed the disturbing findings of the audit in a statement to

01:20Parliament saying, shockingly, the audit discovered that the former SSA

01:25Director initiated the procurement of high-grade military bolt-action rifles

01:30complete with the most modern silencers and other accessories and the SSA was

01:35engaged in training specially selected, questionably hired personnel in the

01:39skill of the use of such weapons. The Prime Minister said he was

01:43alarmed that the SSA by 2022 had ordered 100,000 rounds of ammunition and had

01:49decreased the stock of firearms from 24 in 2016 to 103 in 2021. Mark Besant, TV6 News.