A teacher who was ex­treme­ly im­pressed by the pre­sen­ta­tion skills of one of her lo­cal po­lice of­fi­cers on the oc­ca­sion of World Read Aloud Day, has penned a let­ter of grat­i­tude to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

PC Dar­i­on Thomas, a mo­tor­cy­clist at­tached to the San­gre Grande Traf­fic Sec­tion, was the guest speak­er at the San­gre Grande Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School on Feb­ru­ary 7, 2024, where he read from Dream­Land’s 101 Moral Sto­ries Book on the top­ic of ‘Fear­ing Bul­lies’.  The sto­ry de­scribes bul­lies in school and what stu­dents can and must do to stand up against them.

A post in the Po­lice Ser­vice's so­cial me­dia ex­plains that the school vis­it forms part of the East­ern Di­vi­sion’s thrust of com­mu­ni­ty and stake­hold­er en­gage­ment through mean­ing­ful and sus­tained con­nec­tions through­out all neigh­bour­hoods un­der its care.

The teacher, In­di­ra See­barans­ingh, wrote the fol­low­ing let­ter of com­men­da­tion con­cern­ing PC Thomas:

“On Wednes­day 7 Feb­ru­ary 2024, our school, the San­gre Grande Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry, cel­e­brat­ed World Read Aloud Day 2024.

Our guest speak­er is a mem­ber of the Po­lice Ser­vice PC Dar­i­on Thomas. PC Thomas read a sto­ry about Bul­ly­ing to the en­tire school’s pop­u­la­tion.

It was well re­ceived by the staff and stu­dents. PC Thomas was able to ac­tive­ly en­gage with the stu­dents through the sto­ry. The stu­dents, with his guid­ance, were to fol­low the events of the sto­ry and an­tic­i­pate the events of the sto­ry and an­tic­i­pate what will hap­pen next. He was able to ex­plore the mean­ing of the sto­ry and con­nect it to re­al-life sit­u­a­tions in schools.

The Prin­ci­pal Ms Har­ri­paul, the Vice Prin­ci­pal Ms. Daniel and all mem­bers of staff and stu­dents would like to ex­press our grat­i­tude to the Po­lice Ser­vice—and es­pe­cial­ly to PC Thomas—for a job well done.

We do hope that he can vis­it our school again to en­gage with the stu­dents as he did make a mean­ing­ful im­pact on their lives.

We thank you, PC Thomas.”