There has been no in­crease in crime since the end of the state of emer­gency on De­cem­ber 5, pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, Sgt Wayne Mys­tar, said yes­ter­day. He was speak­ing at the ser­vice's dai­ly news brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain. "There is noth­ing to sug­gest there was an in­crease or a spike in the sys­tem." he added. He said since the end of the emer­gency, three peo­ple were killed and sev­er­al oth­ers shot by gun­men.

Dur­ing the emer­gency a to­tal of 47 peo­ple were killed. More than 8,000 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences and 17 peo­ple were held as sus­pects in a plot to as­sas­si­nate Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and three Cab­i­net Min­is­ters. Mys­tar said the Crime Analy­sis Unit would give soon a break­down of crime sta­tis­tics dur­ing the emer­gency.