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Friday, July 25, 2025

To­ba­go Peeps

Protect and serve with positive vibes

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The first thing that catch­es my eye as I en­ter the Crown Point Po­lice Sta­tion is a sign hand­writ­ten in thick dark mark­er on a white piece of pa­per tacked to a no­tice­board: "When we work we just worked. When we pray God works."Near to it, amidst a few oth­er fly­ers with var­i­ous kinds of in­fo (cakes, a fete, sketch­es of crim­i­nals, a le­gal no­tice...) is a print­ed mes­sage: "Help peo­ple reach their full po­ten­tial. Catch them do­ing some­thing right."

On a ta­ble to the low­er right of the no­tice­board is a wood­en sug­ges­tion box. I won­der what kinds of sug­ges­tions are re­ceived and if the im­ple­men­ta­tion of any of them has re­sult­ed in the sta­tion be­ing as wel­com­ing as it feels to me now.

The in­te­ri­or is clean and qui­et and the po­lice­men and po­lice­women (a good bal­ance of male and fe­male) have pleas­ant ex­pres­sions and seem to be in good moods. Could it be be­cause there is less crime in To­ba­go than in Trinidad? Or did some­one once slip a sug­ges­tion in­to the lit­tle wood­en box say­ing "Smile"? In what ap­pears to be "busi­ness as usu­al," var­i­ous of­fi­cers are smil­ing as they chat with each oth­er, sit at their desks work­ing qui­et­ly or walk around the room car­ry­ing out their du­ties.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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