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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Alexander: Killers exploiting loopholes in policing

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Killers are us­ing loop­holes in po­lice pa­trols to strike their tar­gets, vice-pres­i­dent of the Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, In­sp Roger Alexan­der told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day.Po­lice sim­ply can­not be every­where they would like to be, said Alexan­der, com­ment­ing on the sev­en peo­ple killed over the week­end and a de­vel­op­ing trend of mul­ti­ple mur­ders on week­ends.Ac­cord­ing to re­al-time crime-track­er web­site Bul­let Points, for the last three week­ends there were more than five peo­ple killed each week­end.

Some killings, though un­clas­si­fied, had per­son­al mo­tives, which are dif­fi­cult to track or pre­vent, Alexan­der said.When con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Stephen Williams said he had just re­turned to T&T and would not want to com­ment with­out first con­firm­ing the mur­der sta­tis­tics over the past week­ends.

Be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day sev­en peo­ple were killed, in­clud­ing Day­ron Bak­er, 13, who was killed mere me­tres from his Cizan Trace home in Diego Mar­tin on Fri­day night and Lisa Es­pinoza, 52, who was shot in the back while she and her hus­band Ramesh Ramdeo were pay­ing wages.The week­end be­fore that sev­en peo­ple had been killed and six the pre­vi­ous week­end.


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