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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

TTPS assures it is making inroads in crime fight

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Police officers attached to the IATF are seen during a roadblock exercise along Besson Street, Port-of-Spain, recently.

Police officers attached to the IATF are seen during a roadblock exercise along Besson Street, Port-of-Spain, recently.

Roberto Codallo

With 1,083 op­er­a­tions un­der its belt, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­ports that it is mak­ing in­roads with its cur­rent crime fight­ing ini­tia­tives.

And ac­cord­ing to TTPS Me­dia Am­bas­sador, ASP Owie Rus­sell, there has been a sig­nif­i­cant de­cline in the num­ber of mur­ders by al­most half, when com­pared with the same pe­ri­od in 2024.

ASP Rus­sell ad­mits that there still is room for im­prove­ment but notes that that the Po­lice Ser­vice is mak­ing some gains with its crime fight­ing ef­forts this year.

“For the same pe­ri­od last year, we had al­ready been at 34 mur­ders.  For this year, we are at just around 18 mur­ders, so far,” ASP Rus­sell points out.

“Eigh­teen mur­ders are too much,” he as­serts, “and we are work­ing on get­ting things to a point where we even have ze­ro mur­ders.  So, we con­tin­ue to work on it and do our ex­er­cis­es.”

ASP Rus­sell al­so en­cour­ages mem­bers of the pub­lic to ‘say some­thing if you see some­thing’, and to go about their dai­ly lives with the un­der­stand­ing that the SOE is tar­get­ed at the crim­i­nal el­e­ment.

“Once you are not a part of those en­gaged in crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty,” he says, “we en­cour­age you to go about your dai­ly lives, and al­so to share in­for­ma­tion you may have with the Po­lice Ser­vice.”

The TTPS Me­dia Am­bas­sador was guest on to­day’s edi­tion of CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew show.


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