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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

NYPD to partner with local cops

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The Po­lice Ser­vice is ex­pect­ed to part­ner with the New York Po­lice De­part­ment (NYPD) as this coun­try strives to fur­ther its re­la­tion­ship with William "Bill" Brat­ton, who was reap­point­ed as the head of the NYPD last month.Brat­ton, who pre­vi­ous­ly led the Los An­ge­les Po­lice De­part­ment, has been cred­it­ed for slash­ing the crime rate dur­ing his tenure.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith said Brat­ton had much to of­fer to lo­cal law en­force­ment of­fi­cers, adding that work­ing with Brat­ton would cap­i­talise on his (Brat­ton's) skills and knowl­edge and would al­so as­sist in the com­pi­la­tion of prop­er sci­en­tif­ic da­ta from which prop­er poli­cies could be built."Brat­ton's in­volve­ment with our lo­cal of­fi­cers is some­thing which we al­ready start­ed and one in which I am go­ing to build on," he said.

"It in­volves part­ner­ing our Po­lice Ser­vice with the NYPD to gain ex­pe­ri­ence on a num­ber of ar­eas in­clud­ing com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing, tac­ti­cal op­er­a­tions and sev­er­al oth­er mat­ters."He said Brat­ton was al­so known for trans­form­ing New York's of­fi­cers who were gen­er­al­ly known as be­ing "pigs" to Amer­i­ca's finest."We need to think out­side the box," Grif­fith added.

Last year, Brat­ton spent two days in Trinidad con­duct­ing a "di­ag­nos­tic test" on the Po­lice Ser­vice. Dur­ing a pre­sen­ta­tion at the Hy­att Re­gency ho­tel, Port-of-Spain, Brat­ton said on­ly "a tool, fool and a mule" would work for no mon­ey or low wages as he em­pha­sised the need for bet­ter salaries for po­lice of­fi­cers.He had said mea­gre pay and fail­ure to prop­er­ly award of­fi­cers who went above and be­yond the call of du­ty paved the way for of­fi­cers to ac­cept bribes and oth­er in­duce­ments.

In De­cem­ber last year, Grif­fith met with John Hu­vane, the chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of Giu­liani Se­cu­ri­ty & Safe­ty, which is owned by for­mer New York may­or Rudolph "Rudy" Giu­liani, to dis­cuss strate­gies to deal with T&T's crime and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty is­sues.


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