Carla Batson-Orr
I am always sort of surprised when people decide to do everything that the police says. If I was in her situation, they would have to physically force me to do a search, there is no way on earth that I would do it willingly. Then, I would sue them for MILLIONS.
Monitoring and evaluation officer at the Division of Education, Youth Affairs and Sport (DEYAS), Carla Batson-Orr, is suing the division, after claiming she was forced to undergo a strip search by the police at an office of the division in Tobago, on Monday.
Her private parts were also searched by two female police officers. The police were searching for a flash drive that went missing last Thursday, Batson-Orr claims.
When she got to work Batson-Orr was approached by the human resource co-ordinator of the Division of Education, Ginelle Williams, who told her a flash drive was missing.
Her lawyers, Martin George and Company, told the Express Batson-Orr was also immediately summoned to the office of DEYAS administrator, Allison Lawrence.
"Ms Lawrence began to immediately question our client about the missing flash drive. Our client gave the administrator the same information she gave human resource co-ordinator Ginelle Williams. At that point Ms Williams told the administrator she was going to the police," George said.
George said sometime around 3.20 p.m. His client observed Williams in the building with two female police officers. They headed straight to the administrator's office.
"Ten minutes thereafter, in full view of all her colleagues and co-workers, the two officers came out to our client's desk, asked her name and informed her that they received a report of a missing flash drive and that they will have to question her and conduct a search of her work area...
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