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Jun 25, 2014 News
The two prison officers who were questioned last week about the discovery of a quantity of marijuana in the Camp Street jail, have been interdicted from duty pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
Police said that the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) made the recommendation, and that the ranks have since been released from custody.
A source explained that the prison warders were not charged because they were not found with the marijuana.
A senior Prison official confirmed that the ranks had been interdicted, but said he hadn’t been apprised of any aspect of the investigation.
The two ranks, who have each been working at the prison for abut ten years, were detained last Friday on allegations that they had tried to smuggle over 500 grams of marijuana into the Camp Street jail.
A senior prison official reportedly found the marijuana and a lighter, stashed in two paper bags in a toilet at the prison, shortly after the two accused ranks reported for duty.
It is alleged that when the warders arrived at the prison, they failed to present their bags to be scanned, as is routinely done for anyone entering the penitentiary.
This reportedly aroused suspicion, and other ranks who were alerted, allegedly saw the prison officers head to a washroom before changing into their uniforms.
A senior officer later went to the area and allegedly found the two paper bags of marijuana. He then confronted the two prison officers before contacting the police.
But one of the detained prison officers reportedly told investigators that he decided to bypass the security check because he was late and the rank who should have searched him was on a lengthy phone call.
Denying that he ever went to the washroom, the prison officer reportedly stated that he went to an office where he changed into his uniform.
He claimed that it was shortly after this, that a senior officer showed him a paper bag and subsequently had the two ranks detained.
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