Police Search Home of T&T’S Acting Chief Magistrate

Trinidad and Tobago’s Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro has confirmed that law enforcement officials carried out a search at the home of Acting Chief Magistrate Brian Dabideen.

The Trinidad Guardian quotes the commissioner saying he will only provide “updates if and when necessary and appropriate to do so”.

The police chief said, “Yes, there was in fact a warrant executed on the Chief Magistrate …seeking to get his electronic devices which he fully cooperated in handing over and we want to thank and congratulate the professional way in which the officer has acted.”

Guevarro is also quoted by the Guardian as indicating the search formed part of a broader investigation involving both local and international law enforcement partners and that several items considered to have evidential value had been seized.

Acting Chief Magistrate Dabideen has categorically denied any wrongdoing.