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Cops to approach DPP in SORT head case
Jensen La Vende and Jada Loutoo
POLICE officers said they intend to consult with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions if any charges can be laid against head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) Insp Mark Hernandez as they wrapped up their investigations on Saturday.
Hernandez took part in an identification parade on Saturday after it was postponed on Friday because police could not find enough people fitting his description to stand alongside him.
Police said they were investigating Hernandez in relation to allegations of assault against a man during SORT s investigations into the disappearance of court clerk Andrea Bharatt.
SORT head, WPC to be put on ID parade
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TWO members of the Special Operation Response Team (SORT), including the head of the unit, Insp Mark Hernandez, are expected to be put on ID parades on Friday.
Police said interviews with Hernandez and the policewoman, the only ones who remained in custody, ended on Thursday. The ID parades are expected to take place at St Joseph Police Station where the female officer was held. Hernandez is to be brought to the station.
Two other police officers were released from custody on Thursday night and early Friday morning. Hernandez and the female officer are the only ones to be put on ID parades.
SORT head Insp Mark Hernandez. - FILE PHOTO/ROGER JACOB
ATTORNEYS representing head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) Insp Mark Hernandez have written to Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, giving him until 4 pm Friday to release Hernandez.
They have warned if Griffith fails to do so, they will approach the High Court for a writ of habeas corpus for the commissioner to justify Hernandez’s continued detention.
Hernandez has been in custody since about 6.45 am on Wednesday. Attorney Wayne Sturge said he had been “incarcerated in excess of 53 hours, far beyond the reasonable common law limitation for the detention of a citizen without charge.”
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