Jensen La Vende

Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Kei­th Scot­land SC met with the ex­ec­u­tive of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty head of­fice on Wednes­day.

This was his first meet­ing with the TTPS since he was sworn in on Ju­ly 26.

In a me­dia re­lease to­day, Scot­land said he took the op­por­tu­ni­ty to gain an in-depth un­der­stand­ing of the op­er­a­tional dy­nam­ics and press­ing needs of the TTPS. The dis­cus­sions, the re­lease said, pro­vid­ed the MP for Port of Spain South with valu­able in­sights in­to the chal­lenges faced by the po­lice and the re­sources re­quired to en­hance their ef­fec­tive­ness. 

The re­lease stat­ed, “Min­is­ter Scot­land as­sured Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher that the is­sues raised dur­ing the meet­ing would be ad­dressed with ur­gency. He fur­ther em­pha­sised that this meet­ing marked the be­gin­ning of his ef­forts to tack­le crime and en­hance the safe­ty of cit­i­zens across the na­tion.” 

Dur­ing the meet­ing, Scot­land told those present of his vi­sion for the broad­er na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty frame­work, “with par­tic­u­lar fo­cus on the piv­otal role of the TTPS, in the on­go­ing fight against crime.” 

He em­pha­sised the need for a ro­bust and re­spon­sive se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus, en­sur­ing that the TTPS is equipped to meet the evolv­ing de­mands of law en­force­ment.