National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds, as he spoke in Parliament on Friday while Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher sat behind him. And both the Police Complaints Authority and the CoP are investigating allegations of misconduct against the PSB officers. Dr Rowley has called on National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds to get details from police commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher on the matter. At the Barbadian government level, its Attorney General Dale Marshall has called on the police commissioner, Richard Boyce, for an urgent report. The incident has triggered a multiplicity of investigations in both Barbados and TT. The judge stayed several criminal charges against Thomas. But High Court judge, Justice Devindra Rampersad found the officers deliberately did not disclose the steps taken the bring Thomas back to TT in his ruling on April 25 in the lawsuit Thomas filed against the Attorney General and the Director of Public Prosecutions over a breach of his constitutional rights and criminal charges.
Police said they took the steps to get Thomas in custody in Barbados after they received intelligence that he intended to travel to Greece. Police claimed Thomas "volunteered to return" but legal sources close to him questioned if that was so, why did he have on handcuffs during the flight. TT is not a member of the RSS which was created out of a need for a collective response to security threats affecting the stability of the region in 1982.
Energy Minister Stuart Young was the one who disclosed in Parliament on April 28, that an aircraft belonging to the Regional Security System, based in Barbados, had been used. He believed a TT Defence Force aircraft was used by the police.
THE ABDUCTION PROFESSIONAL
Thomas was on his way to visit his US cardiologist and stopped over in Barbados when he was detained, handcuffed and handed over to three officers assigned to TT's Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) on the tarmac of the Grantley Adams International Airport.
The officers had been provided with copies of six arrest warrants for Thomas on charges of being in possession of grenades and automatic rifles. Thomas, 61, the owner of Specialist Shooters Training Centre (SSTC), who has been one of the main suppliers of guns, ammunition and other security equipment to various arms of the State for over 20 years, was snatched from his hotel room in Barbados by officers from the Royal Barbados Police Force. The Prime Minister said at a post-Cabinet press conference on May 4 that the procedure used by the police in Thomas' case had been used on at least six previous occasions and noted that if there were issues with it, they would be explored. The source said in Thomas' case TOCU reportedly "organised the aircraft to make things easy." TOCU has been described as a unit operating out of the Ministry of National Security which deliberately keeps a low-level profile but is credited with making "serious interventions in securing this country’s borders." News Elite unit linked to 'abduction' of arms dealer in BarbadosĪN elite unit under the Ministry of National Security – the Transnational Organised Crime Unit (TOCU), which works closely with the US Drug Enforcement Administration and other international and regional security agencies – has been identified as the unit which purportedly arranged the capture and return of arms dealer Brent Thomas from Barbados in October, last year.Ī national security source said TOCU has assisted the police on at least five occasions in the past to arrange the capture and return of TT nationals accused of financial crimes in other Caribbean islands under a Caricom treaty.īut police have since been advised by lawyers for the State that the treaty is "not enforceable" because there is no legislation giving it effect in this country.
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