Camille Clarke

As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice Joanne Archie said mem­bers of the pub­lic should make a re­port to po­lice sta­tions against of­fi­cers who used ex­ces­sive force against them. She was speak­ing dur­ing yes­ter­day's dai­ly po­lice news con­fer­ence at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain. "Re­ports should be made to the po­lice sta­tions or Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty. I would like to as­sure the pub­lic that all re­ports made will be un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion," she said. Archie said if they would not like to re­port to a po­lice sta­tion they could go the the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty. "We have adopt­ed a ze­ro tol­er­ance now," she added.

A to­tal of 58 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed in the past 24 hours:

-Gang-re­lat­ed-0;

-homi­cide-0;

-firearms-0;

-drugs-7;

-breach­ing the cur­few-3;

-se­ri­ous crimes-12;

-out­stand­ing war­rants-31;

-traf­fic-5; and

-fixed penal­ties-57.

Sum­ma­ry of ar­rests from Au­gust 21:

-To­tal ar­rests-3,720

-drugs-696;

-oth­er crimes-148;

-se­ri­ous crimes-735;

-homi­cides-57;

-out­stand­ing war­rants-988;

-breach­ing the cur­few-210;

-in­quiries-394;

-am­mu­ni­tion-12,418;

-mag­a­zines-29; and

-firearms-120.