Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for St. Au­gus­tine, Khadi­jah Ameen MP, is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­turn of the Po­lice Mo­bile Unit at Curepe junc­tion.

The St Au­gus­tine MP made the call af­ter a se­nior of­fi­cial from the Unit­ed Na­tions High Com­mis­sion for Refugees and a busi­ness ex­ec­u­tive were robbed while dri­ving through Curepe.

In a news state­ment is­sued ear­ly to­day, MP Ameen ex­pressed her con­cern about the safe­ty of cit­i­zens and tourists as crime con­tin­ues to spi­ral out of con­trol.

“Curepe is a hub where the East West Cor­ri­dor meets the North South Cor­ri­dor,” MP Ameen said in her state­ment.

“Many com­muters and busi­ness­es will be safer with the pres­ence of the po­lice on a 24-hour ba­sis,” she as­serts.

The St. Au­gus­tine MP not­ed she has made nu­mer­ous ap­peals to Gov­ern­ment to ad­dress es­ca­lat­ing crime through var­i­ous press re­leas­es, par­lia­men­tary con­tri­bu­tions, and re­quests for meet­ings. 

She al­so point­ed to cor­re­spon­dence she has writ­ten on the crime sit­u­a­tion to the Prime Min­is­ter, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty and Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice.