The man cred­it­ed with bring­ing a halt to gang wars in Los An­ge­les in 2014 with his unique lead­er­ship of the Fed­er­al Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (FBI) is now a Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS.)

Yes­ter­day, Robert Clarke was sworn in as a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing in Port-of-Spain, with Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith act­ing as a wit­ness.

The oath of of­fice was ad­min­is­tered by Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Har­rikr­ishen Baldeo.

Back in Au­gust Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that Clarke was among a team hired by a group of pri­vate-sec­tor busi­ness peo­ple- the T&T Cit­i­zens Al­liance Against Crime- in De­cem­ber 2018  to as­sist the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in dis­man­tling and pros­e­cut­ing crim­i­nal gangs who have been linked to the ma­jor­i­ty of mur­ders in the coun­try.

At that time, Clarke told Guardian Me­dia the team had come up with crime-fight­ing and crime pre­ven­tion pro­grammes tai­lor-made to com­bat T&T’s spi­ralling crime rate, es­pe­cial­ly the out-of-con­trol gang wars.

Clarke said his ini­tia­tives would make a dif­fer­ence be­cause they had been “right-sized” for T&T.

He said he had trained 45 lo­cal po­lice of­fi­cers in one phase of a lo­cal pro­gramme to ed­u­cate chil­dren about hu­man traf­fick­ing.

Grif­fith con­firmed Clarke’s ap­point­ment in a brief tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day but said he was un­able to give fur­ther de­tails as he was head­ing in­to a meet­ing at the time.

The TTPS’ Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit is­sued a re­lease yes­ter­day evening, say­ing Clarke was brought in to as­sist the TTPS with best prac­tices in deal­ing with homi­cides and gang-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties.