(Trinidad Express) – Police probing the murder of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago employee Kenny Goddard have unearthed a corrupt practice involving three of their colleagues and a TSTT employee, who were providing security for work crews in high risk areas. Three police officers assigned to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) are now facing criminal and disciplinary charges.
Two of the officers, who are constables, were performing unauthorised “extra duties”, investigators said, near Peake’s gas station in Cocorite on Sunday, but fled the scene after Goddard, 38, of Goya Street, El Dorado was shot and killed by a gunman.
Investigators described the killing as a hit and TSTT has offered a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killers.
Sources said the officers, who were not close to the work site when the shooting incident occurred, reportedly fled the scene moments after, even before police responded to the report and did not pursue the suspect or the getaway car.
The two officers, who performed a similar duty the day before dressed in police uniform, were this time dressed in civilian clothing and were in an unmarked vehicle belonging to TSTT, investigators said.
The other officer, a sergeant, has been identified as the third person who allowed the officers to perform the illegal duties in collaboration with a senior TSTT employee.
Police sources told the Express that even though there was no official record in any police diary or register stating that the officers had been given approval to perform guard duties, investigators were able identify the two officers who fled the scene after Goddard was shot.
