Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP) for Op­er­a­tions, Curt Si­mon, who served as the Gold Com­man­der for the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions, says he is sat­is­fied with the over­all con­duct of the elec­torate and has com­mend­ed the Po­lice Ser­vice for what he says were its “ef­fec­tive se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions”.

“The elec­toral process un­fold­ed in a man­ner that al­lowed the pub­lic to ex­er­cise their fran­chise freely and safe­ly. We saw democ­ra­cy at work,” DCP (Ag.) Si­mon stat­ed in a re­lease.

“We are pleased with the lev­el of co­op­er­a­tion from cit­i­zens who ex­er­cised great re­straint and mu­tu­al re­spect, al­low­ing the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process to take its course,” he said.

“Thanks to the pres­ence and vig­i­lance of po­lice of­fi­cers in every polling di­vi­sion,” DCP (Ag.) Si­mon not­ed, “we were able to main­tain a high stan­dard of safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty through­out the day.”

While the TTPS re­ports that no ma­jor in­ci­dents dis­rupt­ed the vot­ing process, DCP (Ag.) Si­mon con­firmed that the po­lice are ac­tive­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port of a homi­cide that oc­curred dur­ing the elec­tion pe­ri­od, not­ing the in­ci­dent was not re­lat­ed in any way to the elec­tions.

The TTPS al­so has con­firmed the ar­rest of one in­di­vid­ual in the Mt. Lam­bert area in pos­ses­sion of TT$30,000.

“In­ves­ti­ga­tions are un­der­way to de­ter­mine whether this in­ci­dent is con­nect­ed to elec­tion-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ties or oth­er mat­ters,” the Po­lice Ser­vice state­ment said.

DCP (Ag.) Si­mon al­so ac­knowl­edged the ef­forts of po­lice of­fi­cers who en­sured a se­cure en­vi­ron­ment through­out the en­tire cam­paign pe­ri­od, stat­ing:

“Of­fi­cers main­tained a vis­i­ble pres­ence at all po­lit­i­cal meet­ings, en­sur­ing that cit­i­zens could move freely and safe­ly to par­tic­i­pate in the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process.”