Chaguanas residents say the crime in the area is out of hand and the police need to patrol the community more often.
This comes in the wake of the death of seven people in the Chaguanas community over the weekend. Altogether nine people were killed across the country between Friday afternoon and Sunday bringing the murder toll to 178 for the year.
When the T&T Guardian visited the area yesterday, Enterprise which has been deemed a hot spot during the past few years, was like a "ghost town."
In a brief interview, residents from Enterprise and Cunupia said they were fed up of the spate of murders in their community.
The residents wished to remain anonymous during the interview.
One shopkeeper from Cunupia said they needed to go back to basics and make citizens had respect for the law.
"Is long time the police not able. They could bring 500 of them and they could not handle it. They trying but it is too much work," he added.
He said the police made regular patrols but the killings were at random.
Kerron Alexis, son of Selwyn "Robocop" Alexis, yesterday lamented on social media about the state of his community.
"Watch how serious it is in Enterprise now, a community where I used to leave Freedom Street, walk across Bagaloo (Trace) then through Crown Trace. Lime on the (Hundred) walk through Walters (Trace) down Enterprise Street lime on African grounds..."
Alexis said the community was divided and not united.
Head of Central Division Snr Supt Jayson Forde said the majority of the deaths in that division were not gang related.
"We will continue to make ties with the public to gather information and our partnership with them in crime-fighting. We continue with our anti-crime exercises, increase patrols on foot and searches and other crime-fighting initiatives," he said.
Forde said there were joint patrols in Enterprise, Couva and Cunupia.
"The majority were altercations and domestic in nature not gang related. We have a 24-hour patrols in the whole division and patrols can't stop that (domestic situations)," he added.
He said during this past weekend five crime bosses in that community were held for questioning.
"We locked up five over the weekend and a few were charged with various offences. Some went to court and few were released," he said.
However, according to statistics of the Crime, Analysis and Problems Unit, Northern Division is leading in the number of homicides for the year.
However when contacted, new Northern Division Snr Supt Rajkumar did not wish to comment.
Homicide breakdown this year:
Total of homicides for the year is 176
Divisions:
�2 Port-of-Spain Division: 33.
�2 Southern Division: 24.
�2 Western Division: 10.
�2 Northern Division: 42.
�2 Central Division: 25.
�2 Southwestern Division: 9.
�2 Eastern Division: 21.
�2 Northeastern Division: 12.
�2 Tobago: 0.
Murders over the weekend:
�2 Ryan Hercules, 39, a security guard of John John, Laventille, shot at Crown Trace, Enterprise.
�2 Patricia Fletcher-Thomas, 26, stabbed to death at her Phyllis Lane home, Enterprise.
�2 Dirk Ramkissoon, of Chin Chin Road at home in Cunupia on Saturday.
�2 Dhanraj Rajpaul, 54, found dead at car at Mt Moriah Road, Welcome Road, Cunupia, on Saturday.
�2 Gowrie Sankar-Choon, 59, killed at his Persad Avenue home in Mon Plasir, Cunupia, on Sunday.
�2 Clint Phillip, 40, of Pineapple Avenue, Valencia, shot outside his home on Saturday.
�2 Body found at Old Train Line, Bay Shore, Marabella on Friday morning.
�2 Lloyd Ramkissoon, 47, and his son, Ryan, 19, at Langusta Trace, Balandra, on Sunday morning.