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Trinidad and Tobago Police Appeal for Help as Country Records Bloodiest January in History

By Magic 103.7January 31, 2018No Comments2 Mins Read
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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Monday appealed for support from law-biding citizens as the twin island republic recorded the highest number of murders in the month of January for any one year.

At least 59 people were murdered here since the start of the year, surpassing the 2008 figure for January when 57 people were killed.

Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams, speaking on a television programme, said that despite the police seizing more than 1,000 illegal weapons, the country’s porous borders were making it easy for the illegal guns to enter the country.

“They are coming from the USA, they are coming from Latin America generally and, therefore, our challenge is how we secure our borders against the entry of those weapons.

“The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has focused on firearms seizure as a critical area of our consideration and we have been annually increasing the number of firearms seized in Trinidad and Tobago”.

Williams said that the seizure of 1,064 weapons last year “is way beyond my wildest dream, [in] that, we would have been ever able to seize in excess of a thousand firearms in Trinidad and Tobago”.

He said despite the record seizure it has failed to dent in the number of gun-related crimes here, including murder, reiterating an earlier position that law enforcement agencies need public assistance in order to deal with the escalating criminal activities.

He said the seizure “has not… impacted our violent crime situation and we are exploring different strategies clearly geared towards ensuring that we can create a safer environment.

“But it is tough business,” he said, noting that he had listened to a former police commissioner speaking to the Joint Select Committee of Parliament and he was emphasising, in addressing our situation, that we have to look at it in a broad context.

“Agencies like the police service are just addressing one form of social control but we have a broader consideration to look at, the issues of around the family, the church, education, the community, all those are key institutions of social control,” he said.

He said these institutions must be strengthened if the country is to win the battle against crime.

Last year, Trinidad and Tobago recorded a total of 494 murders, as against 463 the previous year.

Source: Jamaica Observer

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