For­mer coun­cil­lor Paras Ra­moutar has called for the re-es­tab­lish­ment of the Bras­so Po­lice Sta­tion with im­me­di­ate ef­fect af­ter it was closed last De­cem­ber.

Ra­moutar made the call in an ad­dress at San­ta Philli­pa Junc­tion, Ca­paro on Sat­ur­day evening at a can­dle vig­il for An­r­drea Bhar­rat and all oth­er young women who were mur­dered or miss­ing.

Some 300 vil­lagers, young and old joined in the pro­ces­sion un­der the di­rec­tion of the Grand Cou­va Po­lice as par­tic­i­pants ob­served COVID 19 Pro­to­cols.

Pun­dit Seereer­am Ma­haraj and Pas­tor Wil­fred Sama­roo gave bless­ings for the pro­ces­sion, and al­so called for se­ri­ous ac­tions to curb the run­away crime sit­u­a­tion.

Ra­moutar said, “With the man-made Aripo Ceme­tery is now be­com­ing filled, the cul­prits have now de­scend­ed in Ccen­tral Trinidad, fol­low­ing the dis­cov­ery of a body in Tabaquite two weeks ago.”

He said the re­cent clo­sure of the Bras­so Po­lice Con­stab­u­lary has caused, “great pain, fear and dis­tur­bance for the thou­sands of res­i­dents of Ca­paro, Chick­land Road, Mamoral Nos 1 &2, Flana­gin Town, Tabaquite, Bras­so Piedra, among sev­er­al oth­er com­mu­ni­ties.”

De­scrib­ing cen­tral Trinidad as “an area of dark­ness, Ra­moutar called on Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith “to re­think your ap­proach to close down po­lice sta­tions at your will and fan­cy. The peo­ple of Ca­paro and en­vi­rons, and by ex­ten­sion Trinidad and To­ba­go, need po­lice sur­veil­lance more than ever.”

He said, al­ter­nate­ly, the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice should con­sid­er es­tab­lish­ing a Po­lice Post in Ca­paro with all the ur­gency at his com­mand.

“Par­ents and young women, fear for their lives and are in a very des­per­ate sit­u­a­tion as if there is any form of se­cu­ri­ty or free­dom in the coun­try, we do not know where these thugs would strike next. With­in re­cent days, res­i­dents have com­plained to see un­de­sir­able el­e­ments scout­ing the com­mu­ni­ty with a white Ti­da car”, Ra­moutar said.

Ra­moutar said it was se­ri­ous time that crimes, in all its forms, must stop, and called for the es­tab­lish­ment of a Na­tion­al Crime Com­mis­sion to as­sist the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty”.

Ra­moutar re­called in 1996, he had called for the es­tab­lish­ment of a po­lice post as it stands now, the on­ly Po­lice Sta­tion from Ch­agua­nas is Rio Claro, con­sid­er­ing it is a 60 miles stretch, and no po­lice sur­veil­lance and sup­port along the road­side.

Res­i­dents ex­pressed dis­ap­point­ment with the state of crime in the coun­try, and they see no hope or so­lu­tion in sight.