Po­lice of­fi­cers have been de­ployed in sig­nif­i­cant num­bers to en­sure that the vot­ing process across Trinidad and To­ba­go re­mains smooth, se­cure, and peace­ful, ac­cord­ing to the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment, the TTPS re­ports: “Over­all, from a polic­ing stand­point, the elec­toral process is pro­ceed­ing in a smooth and peace­ful man­ner through­out Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

Ag DCP Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, Gold Com­man­der of the Gen­er­al Elec­tions 2025, re­vealed that while there were some mi­nor chal­lenges with the ini­tial de­ploy­ment of of­fi­cers, “these were swift­ly ad­dressed and did not af­fect the time­ly open­ing of polling sta­tions or the on­go­ing vot­ing process.”

Ag DCP Si­mon con­firmed that in­ves­ti­ga­tions have been launched in­to sev­er­al elec­tion ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties re­port­ed, thus far.

“The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) was al­so in­formed by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of re­ports re­gard­ing al­leged vot­er ma­nip­u­la­tion through fi­nan­cial in­duce­ments,” he con­firmed in the TTPS state­ment.  “Of­fi­cers have launched in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to these mat­ters, and sev­er­al of the re­ports have al­ready been found to be un­sub­stan­ti­at­ed.”

Ag DCP Si­mon not­ed that one in­di­vid­ual was ar­rest­ed in the Mt. Lam­bert area with a sum of TT$30,000 in his pos­ses­sion.  He said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing to de­ter­mine whether this dis­cov­ery is con­nect­ed to elec­tion-re­lat­ed of­fences or oth­er un­re­lat­ed mat­ters.

And DCP, In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Suzette Mar­tin, al­so as­sured the pub­lic that “com­pre­hen­sive se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments have been im­ple­ment­ed” to en­sure a safe, fair, and peace­ful Elec­tion Day.

“Law en­force­ment per­son­nel have been strate­gi­cal­ly de­ployed across polling sta­tions and sen­si­tive ar­eas,” she stat­ed in the re­lease, “to pre­vent any un­to­ward in­ci­dents and to sup­port the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process.”

She added: “We are close­ly mon­i­tor­ing all de­vel­op­ments through­out the day. Any re­ports of dis­tur­bances, se­cu­ri­ty breach­es, vot­er in­tim­i­da­tion, or ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties will be tak­en with ut­most se­ri­ous­ness. Ded­i­cat­ed teams are in place to in­ves­ti­gate these re­ports prompt­ly and im­par­tial­ly. Le­gal ac­tion will be tak­en against any in­di­vid­u­als or groups found re­spon­si­ble for vi­o­lat­ing the law or at­tempt­ing to dis­rupt the elec­toral process.”