Nassau-A policewoman arrested for allegedly breaking the national curfew is facing internal disciplinary action.
Officers detained the off-duty constable and two civilians at a curfew checkpoint on Pinewood Drive around 10:45pm on Monday, May 18.
Taneil Poitier and Tashae Missick, the women arrested with the “rogue” policewoman, pleaded guilty to breaking the curfew on arraignment.
They did not have lawyers when they appeared before Magistrate Sandradee Gardiner on Thursday, May 21.
The magistrate let the women go with a warning after they blamed the policewoman.
Gardiner told the women, “A police officer’s job is to enforce the law. It’s disappointing to hear that you were in a car with a police officer, who did not obey the law.”
Gardiner described the woman as a “police gone rogue.”
Gardiner said the police command decided to address the officer’s alleged breach “departmentally.”
Poitier told the court that the officer couldn’t drive herself because she had a back injury. Poitier claimed he was chauffeuring the officer as a favour.
For her part, Missick said she was just catching a ride home.
Poitier claimed that officers manning two other checkpoints let them through without incident when their companion identified herself as a policewoman.
However, the officers at the final checkpoint didn’t let them through.
That’s because the officer was not on the street in her capacity as an essential worker.
When asked the officer why she didn’t call the COVID-19 hotline to get approval to be on the streets, Officer Seymour allegedly said, “I didn’t feel like it, “the court heard.
