Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds and Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na to Trinidad and To­ba­go, Fang Qiu have signed an agree­ment for the con­struc­tion of a new Trinidad and To­ba­go Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre in St Joseph.

The con­struc­tion of a new cen­tre is be­ing made pos­si­ble through the pro­vi­sion of fund­ing, as ap­pro­pri­at­ed via a se­ries of Eco­nom­ic and Tech­ni­cal Co­op­er­a­tion Agree­ments be­tween the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Gov­ern­ment of the Peo­ple’s Re­pub­lic of Chi­na.

The let­ters out­line the oblig­a­tions of each par­ty in the ex­e­cu­tion of this project.

Min­is­ter Hinds not­ed that the con­struc­tion of a new TTF­SC con­tin­ues to be a pri­or­i­ty of the Gov­ern­ment.

The new fa­cil­i­ty is en­vi­sioned to be mod­ern, with ad­e­quate stor­age, and re­quired ameni­ties for TTF­SC staff to con­duct their du­ties ef­fi­cient­ly, in sup­port of law en­force­ment and the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

It will be lo­cat­ed on Farm Road, St Joseph and will have ded­i­cat­ed spaces and lab­o­ra­to­ries for bi­ol­o­gy, chem­istry, tox­i­col­o­gy, doc­u­ments, bal­lis­tics, mo­tor ve­hi­cles, patho­log­i­cal anato­my and oth­er tech­ni­cal in­spec­tions, stor­age rooms, ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fice rooms, elec­tri­cal and stand­by pow­er rooms and oth­er sup­port­ing fa­cil­i­ties.

Both the Min­is­ter and the Am­bas­sador not­ed the sign­ing was an ex­am­ple of the ex­ist­ing long­stand­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tion­ship and on­go­ing co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Chi­na.

The sign­ing cer­e­mo­ny took place at the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty’s Of­fice at Tow­er C, In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Com­plex, 1 Wright­son Road, Port of Spain.