Mr. Wendell Lucas has been a professional police officer for the past twenty-four years and presently holds the rank of Superintendent. He has worked in several investigative departments of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, namely the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, the Organized Crime and Narcotics Unit, the Criminal Investigations Department and the Financial Investigations Branch where he presently holds the position of Director.

Mr. Lucas is also an Attorney-at-Law with ten years’ practice. He has been an active member of the FBI National Academy Associates for the past six years, as well as the Trinidad and Tobago National Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing Terrorism Committee (NAMLC) which led the country off the FATF ICRG compliance list.

Additionally, he is a certified fourth round Mutual Evaluation Assessor with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and was part of the Bahamas assessment team. Mr. Lucas is currently a member of the Law Enforcement Agency Working Group (LEA) and leads Trinidad and Tobago’s efforts in the investigation and prosecution of offenders for financial crimes.

Wendell Lucas