A WOMAN seeking employment with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) has been charged with uttering a forged document.
She was granted $80,000 bail with surety, after she appeared in the High Court this week, the TTPS stated in a media release on Friday.
Aveyola Castillo-Clairmont, was charged with the offence when she appeared before Master Adia Mohammed, on Thursday, the same day she was charged.
The matter adjourned to December 18 for a status hearing.
Reports indicate that in 2019, a woman applied to be a member of the TTPS and in support of her application, she allegedly produced a preliminary result slip, in her name, with passing grades in certain academic qualifications.
She did not produce the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) certificate as was required and asked to return with the certificate.
It is alleged the woman returned to the Police Academy on October 31 this year and presented a CXC certificate in her name, reflecting the same grades that were on the preliminary result slip.
The certificate was accepted as a genuine document, however, upon verification, it was discovered to be a forged document.
According to the Ministry of Education, she did not obtain the grades quoted on the certificate. A report of the matter was made to the Fraud Squad and an investigation launched.
On Tuesday, an operation spearheaded by DCP Intelligence and Investigations Natasha George, ACP White Collar Crime Division Avinash Singh and coordinated by Snr Supt Michael Jackman, Supt Arnold Lutchman and ASP Damian Thomas and supervised by Insp Dana George, Sgt Terrence Hamilton, Cpl Jade Glasgow, Cpl Stephen Woodroffe, WPC Thimbelene Lutchmansingh-Mungal and PC Brandon Ramlackhan, led to the arrest of the suspect at the Police Academy in St James.
The release stated, “The TTPS is reminding the public that the use of fraudulent documents to defraud and deceive others is a very serious offence and the temptation to do so must be resisted. The penalty is more severe, if the fraudulent documents are used to obtain admission into any public service organisation.”
