Of­fi­cer Man­war­ing re­ceives mil­i­tary send off

Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Stephen Williams once again plead­ed for pub­lic part­ner­ship in the fight against vi­o­lence as he ad­mit­ted crime was too much for po­lice to com­bat alone.He said it was al­ready dif­fi­cult to deal with the re­al­i­ty that one of his out­stand­ing of­fi­cers had been tak­en away by vi­o­lence.

He added: "As the vi­o­lence con­tin­ues to in­crease in the month of Feb­ru­ary, every­one is point­ing fin­gers at the Po­lice Ser­vice to make that dif­fer­ence. T&T, all the cit­i­zens in this land, need to recog­nise that we can­not sit back and ask the Po­lice Ser­vice to make the dif­fer­ence."All of us must al­so seek out to make a dif­fer­ence as our coun­try is hurt­ing and every­one of us will feel the hurt and pain as young men con­tin­ue to lose fo­cus and ap­pre­ci­a­tion for their broth­ers and sis­ters in the land."

Williams as­sured Man­war­ing's fam­i­ly the Po­lice Ser­vice would pro­vide the nec­es­sary sup­port in his ab­sence.De­liv­er­ing the eu­lo­gy, an emo­tion­al Snr Supt Ce­cil San­tana said Man­war­ing nev­er looked at his pro­fes­sion as a job and sac­ri­ficed his life for T&T be­cause he want­ed it to be a safe place for all cit­i­zens.He said: "Po­lice of­fi­cers face the un­known each time we re­spond to a call. We run to­wards dan­ger, we bat­tle the crim­i­nals and we help the help­less.

"No 13283, Sgt Hay­den Dale 'Man­nie' Man­war­ing, did that every sin­gle day. There is no way to know the num­ber of lives that he touched dai­ly. The re­al­i­ty is we can­not make sense of this trag­ic loss of such an out­stand­ing young of­fi­cer."Af­ter a short pa­rade and ri­fle salute, Man­war­ing was laid to rest at the Table­land pub­lic ceme­tery, next to his par­ents, Win­ston and Pas­to­ra Man­war­ing.