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DPP ordered to show cause for charging CANU rank

Jun 02, 2010 News

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has been called upon once again to show cause why charges of conspiracy to export cocaine have been instituted.
Attorney-at-law Nigel Hughes recently filed a nisi order in the High Court. The matter was before Justice Dawn Gregory-Barnes who granted the order, calling on the DPP to show cause for the charge against Shemika Tennant.
Tennant, a serving rank of the Custom Anti Narcotics Unit, was charged in March last, along with a policeman, a security officer and a fellow CANU rank.
In the motion filed on behalf of Tennant, it is stated that the charge is based on bias on the part of the DPP. The motion further stated that the charge came about after Tennant strip-searched two close female relatives of the DPP as she was carrying out her regular duties earlier this year at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
According to the motion, as is customary after every search on a person by a CANU rank, the person is asked to make a written statement in a book, noting if they have any complaints.
And according to the records, there were no negative reports by either of the two persons who were searched. The motion further went on to state that while Tennant was strip-searching the relatives of the DPP, they attempted to make contact with the DPP, but were not allowed to do so.
It was also highlighted that on the day in question, when a pink suitcase managed to reach to the United States with several kilograms of cocaine, Tennant had pulled the suitcase to be searched.
However she was told by her supervisor to leave the suitcase, since it belonged to a relative of his. Nevertheless, Tennant proceeded to have the owner of the suitcase, Dorothy Sears, paged, so that a search could be carried out. Despite being paged, the passenger never turned up to be searched, and Tennant was once again reprimanded by her supervisor to leave the suitcase while saying to her “Remember I have to do your performance report’.
Tennant however made a diary entry to state what had transpired.
Nevertheless, the 22 year-old was charged.
According to the document which was seen by this newspaper, the two women who were searched by Tennant called for her to be disciplined by the strongest means possible. That matter will be called again in the High Court on June 7.
Meanwhile Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire and Justice William Ramlal are expected to make their ruling in the matter of police narcotic rank Morris Smith and security officer Roderick Peterkin. The two were also charged along with Tennant.

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