Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake - FILE PHOTO
Close to 50 members of the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime Investigation Branch (CTOC), unit have been transferred as the Police High Command intensifies its investigations into the recent multi-million dollar cocaine seizure at the headquarters of the elite crime fighting unit.
A senior oficer was also arrested and charged with cocaine trafficking last month.
The latest transfers announced in the Force Order, come after a major shakeup of the senior leadership at CTOC which resulted in the reassignment of its head Dr. Anthony McLaughlin to the Forensic Service Branch and the transfer of his Deputy Superintendent Victor Barrett to the Crime and Security Portfolio.
Following on that transfer, Superintendent Barett was then advised that he is to take up a different assignment-this time at Area 4 Headquarters.
In the latest transfers, which Force insiders say are part of 'sweepng changes' within CTOC, at least four members of the gazzetted ranks have been affected.
They include a deputy superintendent and two inspectors.
Six sergeants, 16 corporals and 23 constables have been transferred to various police divisions, islandwide.
The transfers are expected to take effect on February 23.
Last month, Police Commissioner Dr. Kevin Blake ordered the immediate removal of the Firearm & Narcotics Division, from the oversight of CTOC amid a widening probe into what is believed to be a muli-billion dollar concaine trafficking ring, with international links.
The changes at FNID folowed the seizure by Narcotics detectives of nearly five pounds of cocaine during an operation conducted on January 23 at CTOC headquarters, and formed part of the ongoing investigations into Inspector Martin Walker's arrest.
Inspector Walker is assigned to CTOC.
Meanwhile Force insiders have revealed that there could be further arrests as the probe into the multi-billon dollar drug operation deepens.
It's understood that operatives assigned to he Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency are also working closely in the probe.
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