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Monday, June 16, 2025

Johnny Abraham: Police "incapable" of handling crime

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Shastri Boodan
558 days ago
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Retired Senior Sup Johnny Abraham, left, greets CTTRC Chairman Ryan Rampersad (far right) looking on are a CTTRC Alderman Paul Bandoo who is also a retired policeman, second from left, and Retired Senior Sup Kenny Mc Intire. Photo Shastri Boodan

Retired Senior Sup Johnny Abraham, left, greets CTTRC Chairman Ryan Rampersad (far right) looking on are a CTTRC Alderman Paul Bandoo who is also a retired policeman, second from left, and Retired Senior Sup Kenny Mc Intire. Photo Shastri Boodan

Shas­tri Boodan

The TT Po­lice Ser­vice seems to be in­ca­pable of han­dling crime, ac­cord­ing to re­tired Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent John­ny Abra­ham who lament­ed that crim­i­nals and gangs are run­ning T&T.

He was at the time speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day at a crime aware­ness sem­i­nar host­ed by Ryan Ram­per­sad, Chair­man of the Cou­va/Tabaquite/Tal­paro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (CT­TRC.

Abra­ham said the lead­er­ship with­in the po­lice ser­vice is not what it should be.

He said, "Every­thing in a to­tal mess and chaos, like no­body in au­thor­i­ty, where the po­lice ser­vice is con­cerned, could han­dle the sit­u­a­tion and we have to make a step for­ward to bring back peace in this coun­try. Right now, the gangs run­ning this coun­try. Po­lice of­fi­cers are afraid to go out, they don't have the sup­port of the se­nior of­fi­cers.

Most of the se­nior of­fi­cers not knowl­edge­able about what to do, how to do and when to do it. They don't lead from the front and when you have a leader from the front you must have fol­low­ers."

Abra­ham said al­though he is re­tired he is glad to as­sist.

Chair­man Ram­per­sad said Or­ange Field Hin­du School, Wa­ter­loo Hin­du School, Cara­pichaima RC School and the Tem­ple in the Sea are three in­sti­tu­tions which fell prey to crim­i­nals. Ram­per­sad said apart from mak­ing calls to the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty to do their work, he cre­at­ed an elite team with decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in the po­lice ser­vice.

"We have tak­en a proac­tive ap­proach and we would be walk­ing through the schools that were robbed last week, we are go­ing to look at their lay­out, de­sign and in­fra­struc­ture and these good­ly of­fi­cers are go­ing to make rec­om­men­da­tions to the prin­ci­pals and the var­i­ous de­nom­i­na­tion­al boards as to what changes they can make," he said.

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