Cit­i­zens can once again re­ceive a Cer­tifi­cate of Char­ac­ter (CoC) from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

On March 16, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) Curt Si­mon said the "tech­ni­cal mat­ter" which led to the break­down of the Au­to­mat­ed Fin­ger­print Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Sys­tem (AFIS) would have been rec­ti­fied by Wednes­day March 22 to bring about some "tem­po­rary re­lief".

To­day, TTPS Pub­lic In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer, In­spec­tor Michelle Lewis told Guardian Me­dia that on Fri­day, AFIS was ful­ly func­tion­al once again and CoCs can be gen­er­at­ed now.

In­spec­tor Lewis added that what is in place now is not "tem­po­rary re­lief" but rather the en­tire sys­tem is func­tion­ing as it used to.

She could not tell Guardian Me­dia what the "tech­ni­cal mat­ter" was which led to the mal­func­tion but she said lo­cal and in­ter­na­tion­al tech­ni­cians worked on rec­ti­fy­ing the prob­lem.

CoC's could not have been is­sued since Feb­ru­ary 2023