Last night we showed you the picture with three females posing off with cans of contraband beer in front of a police youth cadet Christmas party banner. The clear suggestion was that they had been drinking at a youth cadet function.
It's a very unsavory image and no less than the Commissioner of Police reacted by tasking the commander of the professional standards branch to find out what really happened.
Today, ACP Chester Williams told the media that it is not at all what it seems:..
ACP Chester Williams
"From what we have gathered so far is that the three females in question, two are eighteen years of age and one is nineteen and we have verified that through their social security cards. Also, what we have confirmed is that on December 17th which was Sunday of last week, there was a police cadet party at a venue in Pomona Village. The party for the police cadet was attended by the cadets and their parents. No cadet was there without parent. Every single one of them had their parent with them and prior to the police cadet party, there was another function at the same location and the three females in question who are in the photograph, none of them is or have ever been a member of the police cadet. They went there to assist in serving at the cadet function and apparently after the party was over and they were doing the cleaning, they saw the cans in the trash and they picked it up and they posed with it. Unfortunately, in front of the police banner and one of them, I guess trying to prove a point to maybe friends or whatever, posted it on social media to give the impression that they were drinking Brava beer."
Isani Cayetano, Channel 5 News
"But it seems very romantic. It seems very, very romantic."
ACP Chester Williams
"Sometimes Mr. Cayetano, the truth is not easily acceptable and my duty here is not to paint a pretty picture of something but rather to be truthful about what has transpired and I can assure you, if I had any iota of evidence that police were involved in the consumption of contraband at that location, believe you me, based on what instructions I had been given by the commissioner, they will be dealt with. But so far, we have not unearthed anything to suggest that the police were involved in the consumption or distribution of contraband beer."
7news has confirmed that all three females are indeed 18 and over.
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