The ze­ro-tol­er­ance pol­i­cy on all lit­ter­ing adopt­ed by the Port-of-Spain City Po­lice has led to three per­sons be­ing charged with the of­fence over the past two days, with one of them caught red-hand­ed.

As such, the City Po­lice is en­cour­ag­ing cit­i­zens to utilise pub­lic bins pro­vid­ed through­out the City to dis­card prop­er­ly of their garbage and waste.

And they are warn­ing burgess­es against lit­ter­ing in the cap­i­tal, or else they will face the con­se­quences.

Of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain City Po­lice who were on mo­bile pa­trol along Park Street yes­ter­day (Thurs­day 21 Jan­u­ary 2021), ar­rest­ed a 71-year-old man who was caught in the act of lit­ter­ing. The man was seen toss­ing a Sty­ro­foam cup in­to a drain.

And on Jan­u­ary 20th, two men al­so were ar­rest­ed and charged for lit­ter­ing dur­ing a law en­force­ment ex­er­cise along Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain.

All three per­sons were grant­ed sta­tion bail in the amount of $500.

They were charged un­der Sec­tion Three of the Lit­ter Act, Chap­ter 30:52 and will ap­pear be­fore a Port-of-Spain Mag­is­trate on March 22nd, 2021.

The City Po­lice is re­mind­ing cit­i­zens that the Lit­ter Act states:

“Any per­son who com­mits an of­fence may be tak­en in­to cus­tody with­out war­rant by any con­sta­ble or by any lit­ter pre­ven­tion war­den, or by any per­son whom such war­den may call to his aid and con­veyed to the near­est po­lice sta­tion and there de­tained in the cus­tody of the po­lice to be dealt with ac­cord­ing to law.”