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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

TTPS: Video of officers failing to answer media question is fake

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ACP Richard Smith responding to the media during the TTPS media briefing on Friday 24 January 2025. [Image courtesy TTPS via Facebook]

ACP Richard Smith responding to the media during the TTPS media briefing on Friday 24 January 2025. [Image courtesy TTPS via Facebook]

A video cur­rent­ly cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia pur­port­ing to show se­nior of­fi­cers at­tend­ing the TTPS Me­dia Brief­ing to­day fail­ing to re­ply to a ques­tion from the me­dia is fake, the Po­lice Ser­vice is as­sert­ing.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, the TTPS said the video in ques­tion “has been al­tered and does not ac­cu­rate­ly re­flect the in­ter­ac­tion which took place.”

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, con­trary to the video cir­cu­lat­ing on­line, the ques­tion about the sus­pect in the al­leged ar­son at­tack that claimed the life of a 3-year-old boy was an­swered prompt­ly by ACP Richard Smith.

The TTPS state­ment quotes him di­rect­ly:

“At this stage, I can­not com­ment on whether a re­port was made by the vic­tim in this mat­ter to the TTPS, how­ev­er, I will make some en­quiries in­to that and give you some in­for­ma­tion some time dur­ing the course of the day. We of­fer our con­do­lences to the rel­a­tives of the de­ceased and we see this as a heinous crime and we will de­ploy all our re­sources as it re­lates to solv­ing this crime and go­ing af­ter the per­pe­tra­tor and putting him where he is sup­posed to be.”

The Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to avoid spread­ing mis­in­for­ma­tion on so­cial me­dia be­fore of the se­ri­ous neg­a­tive im­pact.

“It can add to the dis­tress be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced by the vic­tims of crime and their fam­i­lies,” the TTPS said.

It added: “We al­so con­demn the at­tempt by in­di­vid­u­als to make our of­fi­cers ap­pear in­dif­fer­ent to ques­tions from the me­dia, as the TTPS main­tains its com­mit­ment to be ac­count­able to and trans­par­ent with the pub­lic in mat­ters of crime fight­ing.”


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