A police constable was released on TT$250,000 (One TT dollar=US$0.16 cents) bail after he appeared in the Port-of-Spain Criminal Court charged with misbehaviour in public office arising from the alleged larceny and tampering of court exhibits at police station.
In a statement, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) said that Constable Kerdell Bernard Castillo appeared in court on Monday and that as part of his bail conditions, he must surrender his passport immediately to the Registrar of the High Court.
The TTPS said that the charge stems from an incident on September 15 this year, when officers at the Barataria Police Station, on the outskirts of the capital, discovered that several exhibits, including 27 black plastic packages containing plant-like material resembling cannabis had been removed and replaced with Styrofoam, red bricks, and grass.
The TTPS said that the exhibits had originally been lodged on September 6, as part of an active High Court matter and were secured in the station’s Strong Room.
‘Investigations revealed that between 11th and 14th September 2025, the accused officer allegedly accessed the Strong Room on multiple occasions during his shift and removed a portion of the exhibits. The matter was immediately reported and referred to the Professional Standards Bureau (PSB),’ the TTPS said in the statement.
‘The TTPS takes any allegation of misconduct by its members seriously and reaffirms its commitment to transparency, accountability, and public trust,’ the statement added.