Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin yes­ter­day pre­sent­ed a score­card for the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) which showed they had record­ed a sig­nif­i­cant re­duc­tion in se­ri­ous and vi­o­lent crimes since the year be­gan, com­pared to the same pe­ri­od for the past two years.

Read­ing from doc­u­ments in front of him yes­ter­day dur­ing a po­lice me­dia brief­ing, Ben­jamin ap­plaud­ed the hard work of of­fi­cers, which he said had led to the pos­i­tive re­sults they were cur­rent­ly ex­pe­ri­enc­ing.

He said the mur­der count which stood at 153 up to Tues­day, rep­re­sent­ed a 33 per cent de­cline - com­pared to 228 mur­ders in 2024, and 241 in 2023.

De­creas­es were al­so record­ed in the cat­e­gories of wound­ings and shoot­ings which fell from 297 in 2024; to 210 in 2025. Sex­u­al of­fences al­so saw a mar­gin­al de­cline from 338 in 2024, to 330 for the year.

Rob­beries dropped from 1,072 in 2024, to 680 in 2025; while vi­o­lent crime de­clined by 28 per cent, from 1,991 in 2024, to 1,424 in 2025.

Prais­ing his of­fi­cers af­ter they record­ed a ten per cent in­crease in the re­cov­ery of il­le­gal firearms, Ben­jamin said, “Last year, we had at least 267 firearms re­cov­ered around this time, and now we have over 293 firearms re­cov­ered.”

Mo­tor Ve­hi­cle Lar­ce­ny al­so de­clined from 525 in 2024 to 270 for the year thus far.