The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) made a public announcement on Wednesday confirming that Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro has terminated the official appointments of 17 serving officers. In an official public notice distributed to media outlets, the TTPS confirmed that the dismissals were carried out in alignment with internal administrative guidelines set out by the Office of the Police Commissioner. The full list of affected officers has been released for public documentation: Tamara Boyce, Vijay Singh, Elliot Chin, Joanne Jadoo, Owen Hem-Lee, Jilann Holder, Kizzy Thomas, Karlon Murray, Christopher Gobin, Michael Alcala, Carlos Thorne, Devon Basant, Akiel Smith, Desron Dillon, Shaun Reid, Joff Awong, and Daryl Baksh. The service issued the notification to update public records and inform the general population of the personnel changes, but declined to share further context surrounding the revocations. No details have been provided regarding the underlying causes for the dismissals, nor has the TTPS confirmed the official effective date of the decisions. This move comes as part of a long-running agency-wide push to root out alleged officer misconduct, a topic Commissioner Guevarro addressed publicly just one month prior. During a media interview last month, Guevarro revealed that the TTPS currently holds roughly 290 officers on active suspension amid ongoing internal investigations into professional misconduct. He also acknowledged that one of the most persistent public relations and institutional challenges facing the service is the widespread public belief that police misconduct is rarely met with meaningful disciplinary action. Guevarro noted that while misconduct allegations against officers tend to draw heavy public and media scrutiny, the subsequent disciplinary and criminal legal processes that follow rarely attract the same level of public attention. This ongoing effort to clean up the TTPS’ ranks is not a new development: the last time a similarly large cohort of suspended officers was reported publicly was in 2020, when then-Commissioner Gary Griffith disclosed that approximately 280 suspended officers were still collecting full pay, costing Trinidad and Tobago taxpayers an estimated $50 million annually in unnecessary public expenditure.