Beyond the Tape Thursday 16th November 2023

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00:02:13 It is Thursday and a very special good afternoon,

00:02:22 Trinidad and Tobago.

00:02:22 I'm Marlon Hopkins.

00:02:23 As always, welcome to another program of Beyond the Tape

00:02:26 on TV6.

00:02:26 A very special good afternoon to our friends

00:02:28 in the US, in the UK, in Canada, in South Africa,

00:02:32 all across the Caribbean, the Middle East--

00:02:35 I'm not forgetting you all, the Middle East--

00:02:37 all across the Caribbean and our friends in Grenada.

00:02:40 Very special good afternoon to all of you.

00:02:43 The senior superintendent of the IATF, Roger D. Alexander,

00:02:46 he is here looking square.

00:02:51 I feel like I have my phone on.

00:02:52 Hack your phone?

00:02:53 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:02:55 I feel like I have.

00:02:56 Well, if they hack your phone, you're in some trouble.

00:02:58 Yes, sir, yes.

00:02:59 But listen, sir.

00:03:01 It seems like Mary has hacked my phone again.

00:03:06 [LAUGHTER]

00:03:08 That is not a hack.

00:03:09 That is hijack.

00:03:11 Mary, I like the idea that you're

00:03:14 directing and saying, nice, nice.

00:03:18 With Mary's directing?

00:03:19 Yeah, she looked like she's directing.

00:03:20 She had lost some weight here and there and everywhere else.

00:03:24 [INAUDIBLE]

00:03:27 Mary, you ought to ask yourself this.

00:03:29 Contrary Mary, brave.

00:03:30 She's brave.

00:03:31 You ought to ask yourself this.

00:03:34 To who do I owe all of this viewing?

00:03:39 For what purpose, Mary?

00:03:42 Well, she--

00:03:42 Mary, your behavior is quite contrary.

00:03:44 She knows that you are of that, you know.

00:03:47 How Mary could know I'm of that ill?

00:03:49 She could just watch at you and know that you're of that.

00:03:52 Mary seems to be someone who--

00:03:55 she looks like she's established.

00:03:58 She looks like she can move mountains with backhoes,

00:04:04 whatever.

00:04:06 Whatever that means.

00:04:07 Whatever that means.

00:04:08 And so on.

00:04:09 I don't know.

00:04:10 This is a constant attack.

00:04:13 Well, I don't know.

00:04:13 It's a cyber attack on me.

00:04:15 I don't--

00:04:15 Because let me tell you this.

00:04:16 It's a cyber attack on me because it's a long time,

00:04:21 you know?

00:04:21 Well, what I want to say is that you have not stopped it.

00:04:24 So apparently, you like attacks.

00:04:26 No, no, no.

00:04:27 Let me tell you something.

00:04:27 You have not stopped it.

00:04:28 Let me tell you something.

00:04:29 You have not blocked contrary Mary.

00:04:31 You have not that.

00:04:32 I haven't done that.

00:04:33 How can I tell you this?

00:04:35 If I block contrary-- the last time I blocked contrary Mary,

00:04:39 she came up with a different line, you know?

00:04:42 And have you blocked her since?

00:04:45 I totally get that.

00:04:45 That is the point.

00:04:46 That is the point.

00:04:47 I totally get that reason.

00:04:48 But hear what she did.

00:04:49 She went and said she will do herself.

00:04:52 Right, right, right.

00:04:52 And now she has returned.

00:04:53 And now-- and now--

00:04:55 Right.

00:04:56 --I have another cyber attack.

00:04:58 Who can I speak to?

00:05:02 Jackie?

00:05:03 Oh, gosh.

00:05:03 Who is this cyber person here?

00:05:05 Contrary Mary, boy.

00:05:06 Yeah, she's brutal, right?

00:05:08 Mary, but you know, I haven't said all of this.

00:05:12 Mary, you know, I appreciate everybody, you know?

00:05:16 And for whatever reason, all these things are sent.

00:05:19 I don't know.

00:05:21 I hope you're OK.

00:05:22 You know, at the end of the day, I hope that you're OK.

00:05:26 Yeah.

00:05:27 All right.

00:05:28 So--

00:05:28 My colleagues today, people were calling in the Arima area

00:05:30 and asking.

00:05:32 They would have seen a large contingency of police officers

00:05:37 moving about the Arima district.

00:05:41 The senior superintendent of the Northern Division, North,

00:05:51 he would have--

00:05:52 Sir Francis, together with the mayor of the Arima,

00:05:56 councilor, they were walking through the Arima area.

00:06:02 The purpose, as we-- every division, as I speak,

00:06:07 all 10 divisions, we are, in fact, releasing--

00:06:13 I don't use that word--

00:06:14 our Christmas crime, anti-crime plan.

00:06:19 So when you saw those officers today,

00:06:21 they were going around meeting the business community

00:06:23 and giving them that level of assurance that, you know what?

00:06:27 We are here.

00:06:28 We will be here for the duration of this whole exercise.

00:06:34 And it's a message to, for the criminal element,

00:06:36 if you decide to go to Arima, the consequences

00:06:38 is yours to bear.

00:06:40 Yeah.

00:06:41 Because there will be consequences,

00:06:43 no matter where you go, because all 10 divisions,

00:06:47 we will see how that unfolds.

00:06:49 All right, so what you saw today, again,

00:06:51 is the mayor of the Arima, Borough,

00:06:56 councilors, senior superintendent, Francis

00:07:00 and his team out speaking to the business community

00:07:06 as it relates to the anti-crime Christmas plan in the area.

00:07:13 All right?

00:07:15 So there was no need for concern as to what

00:07:19 was happening there, really.

00:07:22 A lot of persons would have called yesterday, too,

00:07:24 Mr. Opposite-Owner, and showered some praises

00:07:29 on what Beyond the Tape did yesterday.

00:07:32 Yeah, in terms of having the deputy commissioner of police

00:07:40 give us some insights into what is happening

00:07:43 in terms of law enforcement efforts

00:07:45 as it relates to the murders and the shooting.

00:07:48 And then to capitalize on other activities,

00:07:54 the officers from the interagency task force that

00:07:56 was live at Rifle Hill when they spoke to us,

00:08:01 giving members of the public that level of assurance, too,

00:08:03 that all is well and no curfew would be implemented here

00:08:07 unless it is done by lawful means.

00:08:11 You see what I mean?

00:08:12 So persons are calling, text, and showered some praises

00:08:16 on the effort that we put forward yesterday.

00:08:18 And again, members of the public,

00:08:20 thank you in advance for those who've seen things differently.

00:08:24 And sometimes you hear me attacking you.

00:08:28 And I want you to understand this.

00:08:29 It's a good cause.

00:08:30 Let me tell you why.

00:08:31 Sometimes, Marlon, the only reason someone sometimes

00:08:37 gets up--

00:08:38 Alexander, you have me coughing with this perfume

00:08:40 you're wearing, this colonial wearing.

00:08:42 Let me tell you something.

00:08:43 You know I don't like it here?

00:08:43 I tried to stifle the cough.

00:08:45 You're not putting on mud, you're coughing.

00:08:47 You're not putting on girls' perfume, you're coughing.

00:08:51 What you want me to put on?

00:08:52 What is that?

00:08:53 You want to put on toothpaste?

00:08:54 What is that cologne called?

00:08:55 Legend of the Cascadoura?

00:08:56 No, no, no.

00:08:57 Silence and violence.

00:09:02 Silence and violence?

00:09:03 Yeah.

00:09:03 That is what it means.

00:09:05 Silent violence?

00:09:07 Silence and violence.

00:09:08 So let me say this.

00:09:09 I mean, when I attack you, sometimes it may seem so.

00:09:13 Some of you all are sleeping while your beds are burning.

00:09:19 So we want you to get up and understand

00:09:21 what is happening around us and play your part.

00:09:25 I'm not asking you to take your gun and run out there

00:09:29 and do no antics things, no.

00:09:31 Information is enough for us to treat with.

00:09:34 And you have seen it.

00:09:35 Those who bring information for law enforcement,

00:09:37 we treat with it.

00:09:38 And what we have done, we bring it back to you

00:09:42 via Beyond the Tape from the communication department,

00:09:47 where you see what you said you saw on display.

00:09:52 You see?

00:09:54 It's all about that.

00:09:55 So remember that in public.

00:09:57 Be not afraid.

00:09:58 Play your part.

00:10:00 And if you have to force the police, which

00:10:04 you should not have to, into action, then so be it.

00:10:09 Mr. Hopkinson.

00:10:10 All right.

00:10:11 So let's move on.

00:10:12 All right?

00:10:13 Moving on to the first item on the agenda today.

00:10:17 A 20-year-old man who on Tuesday pleaded guilty

00:10:19 before a San Grande magistrate to a possession of cannabis

00:10:22 with the purpose of trafficking, charged with fine $15,000.

00:10:28 Omari Williams, also known as Twigs of Bailey Avenue,

00:10:31 Northeastern settlement San Grande,

00:10:34 was given six months to pay the fine

00:10:35 or serve two years hard labor, should he

00:10:37 fail to do so when he appeared virtually before a magistrate.

00:10:44 Another suspect, 29-year-old Michael Cadet,

00:10:47 unemployed of Branch Road, Wallenville, San Grande,

00:10:51 was also charged for possession of 69 grams of cannabis.

00:10:54 Cadet, who was charged by PC James,

00:10:56 was granted bail by Justice of the Peace.

00:11:00 Let me see.

00:11:02 And officers of the EDTF conducted an exercise

00:11:07 during the period 3 PM and 8 PM on November 10th,

00:11:11 where several priority offenders were targeted

00:11:14 and several drug blocks were raided.

00:11:16 During the exercise, coordinated by Inspector Ram Kissoon,

00:11:19 two suspects were arrested for the drug offenses

00:11:21 and later charged following investigations.

00:11:25 Should I move on?

00:11:27 Move on.

00:11:27 Seven arrested, firearm, vehicle recovered in police exercises.

00:11:31 Seven persons were arrested while a firearm and cocaine

00:11:33 were seized and a stolen vehicle recovered

00:11:35 during anti-crime exercises on Tuesday 14th, November.

00:11:40 Officers of the 7th Division also targeted drug blocks

00:11:43 and priority offenders during a series of crime eradication

00:11:47 exercises yesterday.

00:11:48 One man, 25 years old, was arrested

00:11:51 for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.

00:11:53 Another detained for possession of an offensive weapon,

00:11:56 while three other suspects were arrested

00:11:58 for possession of a device.

00:12:00 What is this device?

00:12:02 Smoking device?

00:12:03 Yeah, could be.

00:12:05 Also, a 35-year-old man appeared before a magistrate

00:12:09 to answer the charge of larceny.

00:12:11 Police reports indicate that on Monday 13th, November,

00:12:14 a man walked into a business place

00:12:16 on Superior Street, San Fernando,

00:12:17 and took one pair of scissors and one 27.5-inch hyperbare

00:12:25 mountain bicycle, valued at $2,000,

00:12:29 and then rode off on the bike.

00:12:32 The swift response from officers resulted

00:12:34 in the arrest of the suspect shortly thereafter.

00:12:38 So he stole a scissors and a bicycle.

00:12:43 That just cut his freedom.

00:12:44 That just cut his freedom.

00:12:45 And rode off on the bicycle into the sunset

00:12:48 until he was arrested.

00:12:49 Wow.

00:12:50 All right.

00:12:51 Sounds kind of--

00:12:53 anyway.

00:12:54 Yeah, we have a video for you.

00:12:56 Yeah, before we go to that video,

00:12:57 Ms. Jackie, this morning, members of the public,

00:13:00 they were awoken to police officers all over the area,

00:13:11 East Pottersfield, West Pottersfield,

00:13:17 and surrounding areas.

00:13:19 It's all about police officers bringing some level of peace,

00:13:28 bringing some level of safety and security to its citizens

00:13:32 with respect to that amount of shooting that

00:13:34 took place within recent times.

00:13:37 Officers from different gang units across Trinidad and Tobago

00:13:43 was involved together with several other agencies

00:13:48 as we embark on a new program, Instructions,

00:13:54 with respect to this gang activity that

00:13:56 seems to be plaguing Trinidad and Tobago.

00:14:00 So this morning, a number of persons

00:14:01 that have seen law enforcement passing through their area,

00:14:05 some of them received the secret knock on their doors.

00:14:10 Some of them, the doors had to be opened

00:14:13 by any lawful means necessary.

00:14:15 But at the end of the day, law enforcement

00:14:19 took action with respect to what is

00:14:21 happening on the Asian streets.

00:14:24 If you want a peaceful zone, a peaceful area,

00:14:28 then be at peace with yourself, your neighbors, your friends,

00:14:32 and even your enemy.

00:14:34 Malambi, you and I don't have to talk.

00:14:38 We don't have to like each other.

00:14:41 But we could continue to exist.

00:14:43 That's all.

00:14:44 That is so.

00:14:45 You're right.

00:14:46 Those are the facts.

00:14:47 You're a member of the media.

00:14:48 I'm a police officer.

00:14:49 We don't see eye to eye here.

00:14:50 If it wasn't for this, on many occasions,

00:14:52 I would have been placed on another number of years

00:14:55 because I would have touched you already

00:14:57 because of your behavior.

00:14:58 Sometimes, Mr. Hopkinson, I remove your glasses.

00:15:02 But I'm not that kind of fellow.

00:15:04 I'm just telling you that in case you're lost in somewhere

00:15:06 and decide to come over.

00:15:07 Because if you come on over to my place, Mr. Hopkinson,

00:15:10 I will send you back swiftly.

00:15:12 I will just tell you.

00:15:13 I'm just letting you know now.

00:15:15 I'm not in the habit of going over to anyone's place.

00:15:18 [LAUGHTER]

00:15:19 Man or woman.

00:15:19 All kind of marginal things.

00:15:21 Man or woman.

00:15:23 Let's come to your place.

00:15:25 No.

00:15:25 Oh, OK.

00:15:26 I want nobody to come by me.

00:15:27 And I'm going by nobody.

00:15:28 Right.

00:15:29 All right.

00:15:29 So we're moving on.

00:15:30 Let's go.

00:15:31 We have a video for you of a stolen vehicle.

00:15:35 Stolen vehicle.

00:15:35 Tida.

00:15:36 Mr. Hopkinson, let me tell you something.

00:15:38 Oh, God.

00:15:40 Another Tida gone.

00:15:41 Yeah, yeah.

00:15:42 The T thing.

00:15:42 Oh.

00:15:43 The T thing.

00:15:45 Apart from watching this video, there's

00:15:47 a man in the Kareem area.

00:15:49 How to describe him?

00:15:50 What word you can use, Marlon, if I tell you

00:15:54 he's the biggest thief in Kareem?

00:15:57 Maybe a kleptomaniac.

00:15:58 He's a what?

00:15:59 Kleptomaniac.

00:16:00 He's a kleptomaniac thief.

00:16:04 All right.

00:16:05 He can't be a thief thief.

00:16:06 Well, I don't know.

00:16:08 Because--

00:16:09 He's a thief of all thieves.

00:16:11 Now, members of the public, let me alert you early.

00:16:15 Men driving around Chinatown, Tobago--

00:16:19 and this is for law enforcement also--

00:16:21 driving around Chinatown, Tobago,

00:16:25 a man might have a Tida.

00:16:30 The number of the Tida is P-A-B-1.

00:16:38 Let me say that in the muddy Tida.

00:16:39 Right.

00:16:41 And he's driving around.

00:16:43 He has a white Tida.

00:16:44 You have a white Tida.

00:16:45 He wants to commit crime.

00:16:46 You have a vehicle home.

00:16:47 He puts your number plate on his vehicle.

00:16:49 He's going to commit crime.

00:16:50 Right.

00:16:51 You feel me?

00:16:52 So then the police will come for you.

00:16:53 So then the police will come and ask you the people's questions.

00:16:56 So what I'm saying is this.

00:16:57 Always cooperate with law enforcement.

00:17:03 I'll tell you why I tell you that.

00:17:05 There are two persons--

00:17:07 they were in this road check exercise

00:17:10 with some of my officers.

00:17:12 And the same stop and search form

00:17:15 that person hesitated that the lady that

00:17:19 was sitting in the car--

00:17:20 the gentleman, he was willing.

00:17:22 You know, listen, my name is so-so-so.

00:17:24 And this is my driving permit.

00:17:25 Yeah, my number is this.

00:17:27 But the lady, there was a level she hesitated.

00:17:30 What do you want to do that for?

00:17:32 All you got to look for criminal, the normal thing.

00:17:34 And how did the police respond?

00:17:36 No, the police was very, very--

00:17:37 he said, well, ma'am, you know--

00:17:39 The police didn't say, shut up.

00:17:40 Nobody is talking to you.

00:17:41 No, no, no, she didn't say that.

00:17:42 She said, he said, ma'am, you know, at the end of the day,

00:17:45 we are doing this for you.

00:17:46 But show me how, show me how.

00:17:48 You know, go out of our way to prove to people things.

00:17:55 You know, within three weeks, the same people

00:18:02 was driving along a particular street in the east

00:18:05 and saw a van with their number plate, same looking like this.

00:18:09 Really?

00:18:11 Intercept took place, and the vehicle was checked.

00:18:16 There are some persons in Trinidad and Tobago,

00:18:18 all in San Juan, all in San Juan there, all in San Juan.

00:18:22 The main street, San Juan.

00:18:25 They are using devices, Mr. Hopkinson.

00:18:29 I don't know if they Google it.

00:18:31 I don't know if they Amazon it.

00:18:34 But they are using devices and restamping your car, laser,

00:18:38 you know, laser, you know, and all kind of things.

00:18:44 So when you lost your car, sometimes you

00:18:46 don't even realize that someone has your car restamped.

00:18:54 And they are going so far.

00:18:59 Now, manufacturers now have to look

00:19:01 to put four and five engine numbers on engines,

00:19:06 and four and five chassis number on vehicles.

00:19:11 Persons are going so far, when they

00:19:13 see your number plate, they are even putting it on their glass.

00:19:19 You feel me?

00:19:20 So in order to disguise the whole vehicle,

00:19:23 so when law enforcement see the hotel, they say, hey,

00:19:26 now this vehicle, look at the number on the glass.

00:19:31 The cattle in Aireen has the same ideas

00:19:35 that I'm thinking now when I speak to that, fooling the police.

00:19:40 You know the cattle?

00:19:41 No.

00:19:42 All right.

00:19:43 Anyhow, members of the public, take all these things

00:19:48 into consideration.

00:19:50 The criminal element is out to get us, fool us,

00:19:58 and make money out of us and our property.

00:20:05 Where are we?

00:20:05 Where do we go, ma'am?

00:20:08 All right.

00:20:09 What do you think?

00:20:10 It's time for a break.

00:20:11 But let's remind people of our phone numbers.

00:20:16 They are 623-1711.

00:20:19 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.

00:20:25 We are going to a very short break.

00:20:26 We are coming back.

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00:22:51 All right, welcome back, everybody.

00:22:56 All right, so we do have a very interesting video for you

00:22:59 of an attack.

00:23:00 And it is said to be between neighbors,

00:23:03 but not neighborly love.

00:23:07 So a gentleman, as you will see in the video here,

00:23:10 take a look at them.

00:23:12 And one is about to be attacked.

00:23:15 Boom!

00:23:17 That's a kind of half scare.

00:23:20 And I don't understand the reason for this just yet.

00:23:23 I don't know one bad blow here.

00:23:28 Well, at least let me just say this.

00:23:32 While we don't condone this, you wouldn't

00:23:35 believe that I am going to say this.

00:23:38 You know, I prefer that men decide their situations

00:23:45 like this instead of shooting each other and knifing

00:23:49 each other.

00:23:51 You understand what I'm saying?

00:23:52 You know, this was the old, long time, good old brawl

00:23:54 kind of thing, where persons vex with each other

00:23:57 and then later buy themselves beers and the good again.

00:24:01 I don't know if this is the case, but-- and look at that.

00:24:03 Nobody really in business, huh?

00:24:06 The place has become so numb with person's behavior

00:24:09 and the way that persons are not coming out of their cars.

00:24:14 Today I saw something in the San Juan area.

00:24:17 I was proceeding west along the PBR in the vicinity of Mung

00:24:22 Dole Road on the priority bus through there.

00:24:24 And a maxi dropped off a gentleman.

00:24:28 The gentleman walked with a stick, Marlon,

00:24:31 and fell into the drain, right?

00:24:35 And I come in on the road and, you know,

00:24:38 like the maxi didn't even-- like he didn't pay attention

00:24:41 to see what happened to this gentleman.

00:24:43 And he drove off, you know.

00:24:46 Yeah, I stopped and I picked him up.

00:24:49 I asked him if he was all right.

00:24:50 I said, yeah, sure.

00:24:52 He said, boy, he can't see like he used to before.

00:24:54 I hope that he's all right today.

00:24:56 And I guide him where he was going.

00:24:59 Tell me he'll be all right.

00:25:00 And I hope that he was in fact.

00:25:02 I look at him as he crossed the priority bus route.

00:25:05 And he went on up the steps and headed to the Mung Dole area.

00:25:09 You know?

00:25:10 But you know, just like this man didn't turn.

00:25:12 The maxi didn't even look.

00:25:13 A young lady came out of the maxi

00:25:15 and was proceeding to help him also.

00:25:17 But you know, just like people just get so numb, you know.

00:25:21 Well, he might tell me--

00:25:22 - They are selfish.

00:25:23 - Yeah, he didn't see him fall.

00:25:24 - Like this attack is not going to end.

00:25:26 - No, no.

00:25:27 This fight took about 14 hours.

00:25:29 So at the end of the day,

00:25:34 when we see these things unfold,

00:25:36 when we see nobody, somebody needs to come out

00:25:39 and say, hey, gentlemen,

00:25:40 will you finish off now, boy?

00:25:42 That's the man, you know,

00:25:43 if you lock that man neck for too long,

00:25:44 then he can't breathe.

00:25:45 You know you're going to get a flight.

00:25:47 You understand?

00:25:51 And it's as simple as that.

00:25:52 I have seen persons fighting

00:25:55 and then one bad blow

00:25:57 changed the whole dynamics in Amitav Ghonsim.

00:26:00 A kick to the head, a kick to the chest,

00:26:02 a kick to the neck, a kick to the face.

00:26:05 And all, it was over, you know.

00:26:08 Persons were attending court.

00:26:09 - I mean, I don't know what has happened here,

00:26:13 but you know, when I see things such as these,

00:26:17 I don't agree with anybody being beaten

00:26:21 or attacked in this way.

00:26:22 - No, no, no.

00:26:23 At least you see what he did,

00:26:24 when somebody came out.

00:26:25 - Right.

00:26:26 - Somebody came out and he got again.

00:26:30 - Well, I just blows, you see me?

00:26:36 I'm not into that.

00:26:37 - Yeah, I think, I think,

00:26:40 I look at my man, talk that out and fix that.

00:26:43 - Listen to me.

00:26:44 After you beat me, so you want to talk now?

00:26:46 We are not talking.

00:26:48 - Well, it was a misunderstanding.

00:26:50 - Misunderstanding?

00:26:51 - Caused by this interruption.

00:26:54 - Pop, pop, pop, pop.

00:26:56 - You know what is that?

00:26:56 - What is that?

00:26:57 - Oh, okay.

00:26:59 - Why are you such a violent fellow, are you?

00:27:01 - I'm taking nothing this life.

00:27:04 - You're such a violent fellow.

00:27:05 Oh, they're going again.

00:27:07 They're going again.

00:27:09 - So they have gone, yeah, they're fighting in the yard.

00:27:18 - In the yard now, yeah.

00:27:21 - The rest of the man looked like he's disturbed.

00:27:26 - He's treating the gentleman like a tree.

00:27:29 - Four trees.

00:27:31 Remember the Republic again, you know,

00:27:35 police don't condone this kind of behavior.

00:27:36 We have seen it before where one bad blow

00:27:41 from any one of the two.

00:27:44 And that's the end of that, you know.

00:27:45 Somebody is dead and somebody has to answer a question.

00:27:49 You might hide for a couple of days

00:27:50 until law enforcement reaches you.

00:27:52 And then you're in court for murder.

00:27:55 Wow.

00:28:01 - Okay.

00:28:03 - Show me this man in Creobe.

00:28:04 Let me talk about this man in Creobe.

00:28:06 Let me see if I can send somebody

00:28:07 to deal with this man in Creobe.

00:28:08 The Creobe community has a problem with a bike man.

00:28:18 Not a motorbike man, a bicycle man.

00:28:21 This man is thieving, jumping person's walls,

00:28:28 entering person's homes and stealing anything,

00:28:34 everything he can get his hands on.

00:28:39 The community is disturbed by his behavior, very disturbed.

00:28:45 (papers rustling)

00:28:48 Because this man continues to roam.

00:28:54 Sergeant Williams of the Northern Division Task Force.

00:29:11 This man is a problem to the people.

00:29:16 And he's seen Lyman daily, we understand,

00:29:24 but he jumped in.

00:29:27 Is it Jackson Street?

00:29:29 Anyhow, let's take a look.

00:29:36 This man, he comes in person's places,

00:29:39 and he own the place.

00:29:41 And he's rolling it.

00:29:45 When he's not in Mount Lambert,

00:29:48 he's moving to Curette, St. Augustine on a bicycle.

00:29:53 Someone saw him with a water pump.

00:29:58 Yeah.

00:30:01 He's a delivery man, apparently from Thiefing.

00:30:07 This is the gentleman.

00:30:09 (papers rustling)

00:30:11 I wouldn't say he's a gentleman.

00:30:13 This is the, what's the word?

00:30:16 - The what?

00:30:17 - What's the word that they use when he's bigger than a thief?

00:30:20 - A kleptomaniac.

00:30:22 - This kleptomaniac fella, Marlon says.

00:30:27 - Maniac.

00:30:30 - He's a yak, yeah, a yak it, yeah.

00:30:32 - Yeah.

00:30:33 - Yeah, a yak it.

00:30:36 He is the man in the Curette area

00:30:39 who is causing the most amount of issues.

00:30:41 They say that he's a cowash in the Curette area there.

00:30:45 When he steals things, he goes and he sells things

00:30:50 to any person who wants to purchase things.

00:30:53 He was seen a couple of days ago

00:30:56 with an aquarium with a fish.

00:31:03 The fish, the fish, Marlon, was on the bike, taking a ride.

00:31:08 Anybody's information, let us know where this man is.

00:31:14 Northern Division Task Force, Sergeant Williams and his team,

00:31:17 you all need to take this man and let them investigate

00:31:21 all this last thing he's been doing in the Curette area

00:31:23 because it seems like he don't intend to stop.

00:31:26 I cannot say yet if he's in fucking coma, it's tough,

00:31:31 or otherwise.

00:31:34 - Yeah.

00:31:34 - Anybody's information, again,

00:31:37 you can call the nearest police station, 5800-TIPS,

00:31:41 call the 999 police emergency line

00:31:43 and tell us where this man is

00:31:45 because it might be someone else's home last night.

00:31:49 It might be yours tonight.

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00:33:11 - Anytime you leave your keys in the ignition

00:33:22 when you pull up to your driveway,

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00:33:29 Make it tough for criminals.

00:33:31 Don't give them a chance.

00:33:32 Switch off your engine, remove your keys and stay alert.

00:33:37 - A message from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.

00:33:41 - All right, everyone, welcome back.

00:33:52 Let's go ahead.

00:33:54 Let me ask you something.

00:33:58 Now, I know you're telling me you're a Catholic dude.

00:34:00 You're a Catholic and all of that.

00:34:02 How do you--

00:34:03 - I was baptized a Catholic.

00:34:04 - You're a Catholic?

00:34:05 - Yes.

00:34:06 - And how do you go about explaining to someone

00:34:11 who probably interested in asking this question,

00:34:14 like why do you think we celebrate the 25th of December

00:34:19 as the birth of Christ when he was,

00:34:24 according to these readings,

00:34:26 he was formed already at a stage

00:34:30 where he could not have been born on that particular day.

00:34:34 How do you go about explaining that from your learnings?

00:34:37 Mr. Alston, go ahead.

00:34:38 - I don't have time for that argument.

00:34:40 (laughing)

00:34:42 Don't approach me with that foolish stuff.

00:34:43 - Don't approach you with that?

00:34:44 - No, no, no.

00:34:45 I don't have time for that argument.

00:34:47 You see, when I painting and getting ready for business,

00:34:50 don't approach me with them kind of foolish thing at all

00:34:54 about who born on what day and we're born on what day

00:34:57 and why are you in this.

00:34:58 I'm not in that.

00:35:00 I don't care about that.

00:35:01 Come back and check me sometime in 2027.

00:35:04 We could discuss that then.

00:35:06 I'm on the way to the grocery to get something

00:35:09 to get the eats and the things to drink.

00:35:12 - I said you have time for that.

00:35:13 - And I ain't drinking no dry sorrel.

00:35:15 - Dry sorrel, this is bad.

00:35:17 You ever had some?

00:35:18 Yeah, boy, that tastes like bush, boy.

00:35:21 That movie, this tastes like when you boil weed.

00:35:23 Yeah.

00:35:25 But that what I'm saying, it has a taste like bush.

00:35:27 Green kind of, burn up kind of, dry weed.

00:35:32 - Why did I see why that teacher didn't like you

00:35:33 in school in the first place?

00:35:35 - Hey, Damier.

00:35:36 Miss Damier.

00:35:37 Look at here, girl, look at here.

00:35:40 - Let's go on, boy.

00:35:42 - Somebody from school called me, text me.

00:35:45 Text me.

00:35:47 Actually, Beckels, text me and tell me

00:35:51 if that teacher is still in Trinidad.

00:35:53 I want to know that, all right?

00:35:55 Look, the Damier, Miss Damier here.

00:35:57 All right, what we have now?

00:35:58 - Dago Martin, you see.

00:35:59 - Dago Martin, let's go to Dago Martin.

00:36:02 Where I understand that people would have walked

00:36:04 with a ladder to jump a wall.

00:36:08 - Yeah, they came.

00:36:09 - Now, let me share this with you.

00:36:10 I do not have any experience with these things.

00:36:14 As a law enforcement officer for a number of years,

00:36:16 I will tell you this though.

00:36:17 There was a situation that exists before.

00:36:23 When persons were coming around and walking around

00:36:25 with ladders, Mr. Man or Mr. Woman, whoever influence you.

00:36:29 Careful where you put your ladder, you know?

00:36:32 What goes up must come down, you know?

00:36:37 And you see, I had to reach to...

00:36:42 And you know, yesterday I was to ask the DCP this question.

00:36:48 When we get the chance to next time on another occasion

00:36:51 where persons continue to ask about FUL hold as response

00:36:56 to criminal activities that is geared towards them

00:37:02 in the defense of oneself.

00:37:04 Now they understand what they have to do.

00:37:07 However, they are also concerned with the removal

00:37:12 of the item that was given to them for protection

00:37:16 for any considerable length of time.

00:37:20 Quite so, if you think about it,

00:37:24 because if I give you something to protect yourself

00:37:26 and in defense of yourself, you did in fact protect yourself.

00:37:30 Then if I take it away,

00:37:32 then I think I'm leaving you vulnerable.

00:37:34 And now more than ever, because what seems to be happening,

00:37:38 whether police, I realize the police know we are hesitant.

00:37:43 We have since removed the names

00:37:46 and all the information concerning persons

00:37:50 who would have defended themselves in a particular way

00:37:55 to avoid it reaching the social media.

00:37:58 Now the social media, you know,

00:38:00 is going and digging up things for themselves

00:38:02 and putting it out there.

00:38:03 So do not blame the police at all times.

00:38:07 So when these things happen now,

00:38:10 doesn't it put the person

00:38:13 who would have defended himself at a risk?

00:38:17 And in fairness to people, law enforcement,

00:38:21 we are thinking about these things

00:38:23 and we must find a way.

00:38:25 And there is in fact a way I understand,

00:38:27 but I would want the deputy commissioner of police

00:38:31 or somebody within the executive

00:38:33 to speak to it on another occasion

00:38:36 where they would be able to explain

00:38:38 and give the public that level of assurance

00:38:40 that listen, if something was to happen,

00:38:42 the procedure is this and this must be done.

00:38:46 So when it is not done,

00:38:48 we can now challenge it at a different angle.

00:38:51 You see?

00:38:52 - We finished with the man

00:38:53 who jumped the wall with the ladder.

00:38:55 - Anybody's information.

00:38:56 - And then we march. - Bring up the ladder man

00:38:57 again, Mr. Jackie.

00:38:58 Anybody's information about these ladder men

00:39:00 who going around with a ladder on their car?

00:39:04 - That's the ladder that the fire service bought.

00:39:08 - How much was that?

00:39:08 - $50,000 for each one.

00:39:10 - It wouldn't?

00:39:13 - Yes.

00:39:14 - I don't know.

00:39:15 Would that be a Cedar?

00:39:16 - I don't see that.

00:39:18 - It go over?

00:39:19 - All right.

00:39:22 - All right.

00:39:23 Members of the public, again, anybody's information,

00:39:24 you can call the nearest police station,

00:39:26 555-800-TIPS, call 999 police emergency line,

00:39:29 hit us up and let us know exactly what is happening.

00:39:32 With that is concluded.

00:39:34 Now, what you are seeing now more than ever,

00:39:36 I'm seeing every little group in every community

00:39:40 getting together and really making an effort

00:39:43 with respect to crime.

00:39:44 One of the places I'm looking at,

00:39:47 and Corporal Ali, who was here yesterday,

00:39:53 he's looking, he spoke to me today,

00:39:56 and Bamboo.

00:39:59 Bamboo seems to be a place that,

00:40:04 there seems to be some level of persons being targeted.

00:40:08 Now, and he said to me,

00:40:13 he said the first thing we need to do is really to,

00:40:15 let us get together with those persons inside

00:40:17 and together with the police officers in the area,

00:40:21 and let us come up with some proposals

00:40:23 so we are better able to enforce.

00:40:27 Now, members of the public, try to understand this.

00:40:31 If you're working as a team in your area,

00:40:35 it is easy to identify who are friendly and who are not.

00:40:42 - I'm listening.

00:40:45 - So if we are able to identify who are the friendlies,

00:40:48 then the response would not be early.

00:40:52 But if we identify who are not the friendlies,

00:40:54 then we can strategically place police officers

00:40:57 along the roadway and send a team on the inside

00:41:00 to see if we could navigate them.

00:41:03 Understand?

00:41:06 So your input is critical in this fight against crime,

00:41:11 and that is what Pulse is missing.

00:41:15 And I try to explain that every single day to people.

00:41:18 Stop leaving that to the police alone.

00:41:21 I do not know who live in your area all the time.

00:41:23 I have to ask a question.

00:41:24 But if you do, and you know who don't,

00:41:26 then it's easy because you pass me the information,

00:41:28 you give me the vehicle number,

00:41:30 and I'm able to do the interception

00:41:32 to see what is happening before, during,

00:41:35 or after the crime has occurred.

00:41:37 You feel me?

00:41:39 Let's go.

00:41:42 - I'm hearing.

00:41:42 - Where are we?

00:41:45 - Where is this?

00:41:46 - Oh-ho.

00:41:47 - Second Avenue.

00:41:48 - Second Avenue.

00:41:48 - Early morning prowler.

00:41:50 - Now listen here, I don't know what he's looking for.

00:41:52 - He's prowling your yard.

00:41:54 - Now, remember that in public,

00:41:55 you might hear a dog bark in the night.

00:41:57 Long time, it's two people the dog has barked most of the time.

00:42:02 Police and thief.

00:42:04 - How do you know the difference of the bark?

00:42:07 - When it's the police,

00:42:10 there is kind of owl, owl, kind of,

00:42:11 (imitates howling)

00:42:13 the police, call it crowing, you know?

00:42:15 When it's the criminal,

00:42:16 they just bark and get on dread like,

00:42:18 (imitates howling)

00:42:20 - All right, all right.

00:42:21 - Right, so you gotta know the difference, right?

00:42:22 So the howling is for the police,

00:42:25 and the (imitates growling) is for the-

00:42:26 - So according to you, the dog owls.

00:42:29 - Yeah.

00:42:29 - Okay.

00:42:30 You're hearing that, right?

00:42:32 The dog owls.

00:42:33 (laughing)

00:42:34 Not owls, the owls.

00:42:36 - Owls, yeah.

00:42:36 - Yeah.

00:42:37 - Right.

00:42:38 (imitates howling)

00:42:39 Right, like that.

00:42:40 So, remember that in public,

00:42:42 this man here, he is in fact,

00:42:44 walking around the neighborhood.

00:42:46 When you hear something in the night,

00:42:49 I'm asking you, discreetly,

00:42:51 you hear the words?

00:42:52 Discreetly, position yourself.

00:42:57 Don't just slide the window open,

00:42:58 slide the curtain, everybody had a load of it.

00:43:01 No, discreetly take a peep.

00:43:03 If Jackie was not in the corner there,

00:43:08 she's able to demonstrate the techniques

00:43:12 used to mackle, but we wouldn't expose her

00:43:16 to that level at this stage.

00:43:18 - Why you not sue this man?

00:43:19 (laughing)

00:43:21 - But, however, remember that in public,

00:43:23 take a look, observe what the person has on,

00:43:27 and if you could alert other neighbors,

00:43:29 because you might in fact have this communication level,

00:43:33 where you have WhatsApp and they call the neighbors,

00:43:35 hey, look, I know somebody in Jesse Brung yard,

00:43:39 and he's now going across in Jesse Brung's sister,

00:43:42 Jesse, Jesse Brung yard, you understand?

00:43:45 So we monitor him, so when law enforcement arrives,

00:43:47 we almost show as to where he might be,

00:43:50 what he looks like, and all the information

00:43:52 that we can get out from you.

00:43:54 - All right.

00:43:55 Must go to a break.

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00:45:45 Obey the speed limits.

00:45:47 Maybe you don't value your life,

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00:46:09 - Hey, I wanna say a very special good,

00:46:13 I shouldn't say a very special good,

00:46:15 good evening to a young man.

00:46:17 He attempted to wipe my windscreen this afternoon.

00:46:21 - Oh, Lord.

00:46:22 - And he was approaching my vehicle,

00:46:24 and I said to him.

00:46:25 - No, no, no.

00:46:26 - And he said, I said, "Rain falling,

00:46:29 "what do you want to wipe?

00:46:30 "What do you want to wipe?"

00:46:31 And then he said, "Mr. Maran, are you?"

00:46:33 Pick me up now, pick me up.

00:46:36 - He didn't tell me his name.

00:46:37 - Pick him up.

00:46:38 - What?

00:46:39 - Pick him up.

00:46:40 - Yeah, so a very special good evening to you,

00:46:43 and the rest of the world.

00:46:44 - But let me dash some more into your statement.

00:46:45 Let me tell you this, sir.

00:46:46 Within recent times, I am seeing even--

00:46:48 - You want to wipe his screen in the rain, you know?

00:46:51 - Rice and Road, in the east, by every traffic light,

00:46:56 there are persons standing on the roadway.

00:46:59 Now they have, they're in the middle on Rice and Road,

00:47:02 with these little container things that I have,

00:47:04 with the drinks in it.

00:47:06 In the middle of the road, like, show me, show me that.

00:47:08 Where's the boy?

00:47:09 Sleeping, eh?

00:47:10 You want to come to me, right, partner?

00:47:13 - Will he just be on Rice and Road?

00:47:15 - Yeah, I don't know.

00:47:16 Wait, wait.

00:47:16 (laughing)

00:47:19 - Hello, show Alexander.

00:47:21 What is wrong with you?

00:47:21 - He's not sleeping, no.

00:47:23 Partner, take some ginkgo, yeah, this one.

00:47:27 - Jackie, I tell you, you have people here, anyway.

00:47:30 (laughing)

00:47:32 With trees.

00:47:33 - They are standing on the middle of the roadway.

00:47:35 - The trees have taken hold of them.

00:47:36 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, the trees, you know, all four.

00:47:38 Listen, you're standing on the roadway,

00:47:40 you're on the white line.

00:47:42 And they have this container, well, this drinking container,

00:47:48 on the white line, in the middle of the road.

00:47:50 And now the traffic,

00:47:54 because Rice and Road is not a very large road, eh?

00:47:57 - Yeah.

00:47:58 - You have to maneuver like this.

00:48:00 Because to accommodate these people.

00:48:04 Now, you all will say, well, Alexander,

00:48:07 you know them fellas, they really do no crime,

00:48:08 they're trying to make a lot of money, yes, yes, yes.

00:48:11 I hear all of that.

00:48:13 The problem is, when we start something in Chantabago,

00:48:16 you know what Marlon encouraged you to?

00:48:20 When we start something in Chantabago,

00:48:22 just for the whole of Rice and Road,

00:48:25 the whole of Arpita Avenue,

00:48:28 the whole of the highway,

00:48:30 the whole of the South Bong Lane,

00:48:33 the whole of the North Bong Lane

00:48:35 will be filled with persons selling things.

00:48:37 - You see, all you do like poor people.

00:48:39 - And then you all will put your lives in danger.

00:48:41 - That is the problem, all you do like poor people.

00:48:43 All you don't like poor people.

00:48:45 Poor people trying to make a living,

00:48:47 to mind their family, to stay out of trouble.

00:48:50 - It must not be to the extent,

00:48:51 it must not be to their own detriment,

00:48:55 and putting their lives in danger.

00:48:58 - It is a dangerous practice.

00:49:00 - It is.

00:49:01 - It is a dangerous practice, right?

00:49:02 Because you come into what, listen.

00:49:04 - However, it is a dangerous practice.

00:49:07 However, they could be involved in other activities.

00:49:10 And I prefer that activity.

00:49:11 - Marlon have concern.

00:49:12 - Right?

00:49:13 - And this is the borderline.

00:49:14 - You all have more serious matters to deal with.

00:49:16 - Marlon, this is the borderline.

00:49:16 - About who, who brought in curfew,

00:49:19 and who don't have curfew,

00:49:20 and who have M16, and who have AK-47,

00:49:23 man, who have, where's the next one?

00:49:25 What are they using in the US?

00:49:26 Where's the one, where's the AR?

00:49:28 The AR.

00:49:29 Yeah, that should be your concern.

00:49:31 Your main priority.

00:49:33 - Marlon have concern.

00:49:34 You see, guns, we serve in one set of people on this side.

00:49:38 But what about the inconvenience

00:49:40 of the other persons on the other side?

00:49:43 We have to see about the people, Mr. Hopkinson.

00:49:45 No one man should benefit from law enforcement, you know?

00:49:48 Everybody should benefit from law enforcement, Mr. Hopkinson.

00:49:50 - 'Cause you see one little man selling,

00:49:52 selling fried plantain, or baked plantain.

00:49:56 - Right.

00:49:57 - You have a problem with that.

00:49:57 So let me stop it.

00:49:59 Let me stop him.

00:50:00 - Marlon, the man--

00:50:01 - Marlon, the man who's selling the fried plantain,

00:50:04 does he have a badge from the ministry?

00:50:08 A food badge?

00:50:09 - You don't know?

00:50:10 You ever asked?

00:50:11 You ever inquire?

00:50:12 You ever inquire?

00:50:14 But you see, I wouldn't stop and say,

00:50:15 my boy, give me a bag of your plantain there.

00:50:19 - Yeah, all right.

00:50:20 - Give me about 40 bags.

00:50:21 Let me carry it up for the IATF.

00:50:22 - Yeah.

00:50:23 - But you wouldn't do that.

00:50:24 You wouldn't do that.

00:50:25 - I thought you said the man frying plantain,

00:50:26 so I said the man selling food.

00:50:27 What is it?

00:50:28 - The fried plantain, boy.

00:50:29 - Oh, you mean the plantain.

00:50:30 - Plantain chips.

00:50:31 - You said the man cooking food.

00:50:32 But you see, I'm confused.

00:50:34 - Fried plantain in the middle of a right road.

00:50:36 - And they'll make roti in St. James?

00:50:39 - So what?

00:50:40 I'm telling you, this gentleman,

00:50:43 all of you, be careful with this gentleman.

00:50:45 - What the fuck are you doing?

00:50:45 - He has a problem.

00:50:46 - Which one?

00:50:47 - He go all up, sell roti in St. James now.

00:50:48 - I never said that.

00:50:49 I never said that.

00:50:50 I said, you know, people that sell things on the streets,

00:50:52 do we check to see if they in fact has the requirements?

00:50:57 With some concerns, ask him,

00:50:59 - What the?

00:50:59 - Where's your barge, officer?

00:51:00 - I am not downplaying your concerns.

00:51:03 - Let me finish.

00:51:04 - I'm just saying we have more serious matters to deal with.

00:51:08 - Officer, you come to this station,

00:51:11 officer, I want to see your barge.

00:51:13 I want to see your barge.

00:51:14 But you know you're going to buy something to eat.

00:51:16 You didn't check to see if the man,

00:51:18 I'm too full, foot, one on the left, one on the right.

00:51:20 I'm squeezing, squeezing, squeezing,

00:51:22 and you're buying things for him to eat.

00:51:23 You ain't checking for nothing.

00:51:24 - You know how much so foot boyfriend and girlfriend

00:51:26 people have out there and so mouth.

00:51:30 All you're watching on social media and so on

00:51:34 and you want to meet them.

00:51:36 So what?

00:51:37 - I don't call that.

00:51:38 - But let me ask, let me ask, you raise a point there.

00:51:42 This barge.

00:51:43 - Right.

00:51:44 - Yes, from what I remember,

00:51:46 I believe it is the corporation that gives you that, right?

00:51:50 But what does that, it gives you the authority to sell,

00:51:55 but is it after a check of your premises?

00:52:00 - Well, it's supposed to be done.

00:52:01 You know, that's what I understand.

00:52:02 - That's the operative word there, supposed to be done.

00:52:05 - Yeah, that's it.

00:52:06 The check of your premises to make sure that all is well

00:52:08 and the conditions under which you operate is healthy

00:52:13 and all of these things that we don't know.

00:52:14 And I often speak about a particular place I went

00:52:17 back in the day to do a search

00:52:19 and I have never seen so many German Roach

00:52:22 in my entire life.

00:52:23 That made me stop, think about that thing to eat.

00:52:27 - You better be careful.

00:52:28 - Yeah, I'm being careful.

00:52:29 - If you want protest outside, express also.

00:52:32 But I will lead you all.

00:52:34 - Yeah, you'll lead us, the people.

00:52:34 - You'll walk down the promenade,

00:52:37 turn and come back up the road.

00:52:38 - Yeah.

00:52:39 And then, let me also say this, what's up, this now.

00:52:43 What does it take now, trying to be able to,

00:52:47 for us to really reach out to those who continue

00:52:53 to put their lives at risk with this online purchase

00:52:57 of vehicles and fridge and big TV?

00:52:59 What else should we do?

00:53:02 Do we have to put in, do we have to do an ad?

00:53:04 Do we have to wait until something happens to you?

00:53:09 How come you are leaving your homes in the night

00:53:15 to go to a location in the back of some place

00:53:20 for a iPhone 13?

00:53:22 - Mm-hmm.

00:53:22 - Mr. Hopkinson, I don't care if I'm blue.

00:53:26 If I say hello, and you don't hear me?

00:53:28 So it doesn't matter, you want an iPhone.

00:53:30 A man has an iPhone to sell.

00:53:32 So he pulls one off the Google and show you, look at here.

00:53:36 He pulls one off the Google and say,

00:53:40 look, look, look, the phone here, watch.

00:53:41 Watch.

00:53:42 You get excited home, you go in and get your money.

00:53:45 You and your girlfriend take a loan.

00:53:47 And only we're coming for the phone.

00:53:49 And then when I reach there,

00:53:50 I make sure I put it on, I already put the phone.

00:53:53 It's because you call me, and I like your vibes.

00:53:56 - Yeah, you always like your vibes.

00:53:57 - Yeah, your vibes.

00:53:58 - Your blood take you.

00:53:59 - Yeah, your vibes, well, well, cool, but I like your vibe.

00:54:02 - Yeah.

00:54:03 - You bring all the money, what are you doing?

00:54:04 I will discount you a hundred.

00:54:06 Yeah, discount you a hundred, because I like your vibe.

00:54:10 And as you reach in the back of the basketball court,

00:54:13 under the little tree, next to the little cattle,

00:54:15 two men come out, like this.

00:54:20 Hey, pass it.

00:54:21 You'll be lucky if you are left with your life,

00:54:26 Fred Begonia.

00:54:27 How are we still doing these things?

00:54:30 It seems like you all don't watch news.

00:54:34 It seems like you all don't pay attention to be on the tape.

00:54:37 Like you're watching something.

00:54:38 You have a recital still show?

00:54:40 - No.

00:54:40 - Oh, okay.

00:54:41 - At least not.

00:54:42 - You always seem to be watching something

00:54:43 that don't provide you or give you that opportunity

00:54:46 to see things and to have a better understanding of things

00:54:50 where crime is concerned.

00:54:52 And if you're doing that, then you are lost in this world.

00:54:55 Because there are certain areas that I would not encourage

00:54:57 that I told you, if you want to purchase something,

00:55:00 reach the police station, talk to the officers,

00:55:03 don't go and, "But hey, officer, come on, sir, you're the one."

00:55:06 Not so.

00:55:07 Talk to the officer.

00:55:08 Say, "Officer, good day.

00:55:10 "My name is so and so.

00:55:11 "I'm just here, a man supposed to come

00:55:14 "to collect something here.

00:55:15 "I could just be around by the station

00:55:17 "because I don't trust the way things go in these days,

00:55:19 "officer, you know."

00:55:20 If an officer tells you, "Come out of the station, sir,"

00:55:24 that officer is a fool.

00:55:26 - Is a what?

00:55:27 - A fool.

00:55:28 Because I often say this, we prefer to prevent a crime

00:55:31 than to investigate one.

00:55:33 - All right.

00:55:34 - So if he tells you that, something is wrong with him.

00:55:35 - Okay.

00:55:36 - All right?

00:55:37 - Thank you very much.

00:55:38 We must go to a very short break.

00:55:39 We are coming back.

00:55:40 (upbeat music)

00:55:43 (upbeat music)

00:55:46 - The art of fine chocolate, infused with golden rum,

00:55:54 paired with the delicate sweetness of plump raisins.

00:55:59 Rum and raisin, artfully crafted, a pure masterpiece.

00:56:04 Rum, raisins, chocolate.

00:56:12 Mm, divine.

00:56:16 Imagine Charles, make your moments magical this Christmas.

00:56:21 - Now this is radical trading, you know that?

00:56:23 And them have everything to cover anything.

00:56:26 Radical trading have the best fabric design

00:56:28 for your pursery needs, yeah?

00:56:30 So furniture, car, boat, and even material for school bags.

00:56:34 - This will look really nice on my couch boy.

00:56:37 - They even make a pillow too.

00:56:39 - It's frank.

00:56:40 - Oh yeah?

00:56:41 - I used to forget the money.

00:56:42 - Serious?

00:56:43 - Take a pay for it for me.

00:56:44 - Me and my big mouth boy,

00:56:46 I wonder if radical get thing to cover mouth yet.

00:56:49 - Radical trading, four locations nationwide.

00:56:51 (upbeat music)

00:56:55 - This is Mary.

00:56:56 Mary has bills to pay and takes a chance,

00:57:00 parking in front of the building at the no parking sign.

00:57:03 Mary returns to her car and this is what happens.

00:57:08 (upbeat music)

00:57:10 Mary decides to call when she's five minutes away

00:57:18 to let her daughter know that she is close by.

00:57:21 But Mary forgot one thing.

00:57:23 After two tickets, Mary just isn't paying attention

00:57:34 to her speed.

00:57:36 - You still have to explain it to me.

00:57:36 You know that vaccine is like 15 kilometers.

00:57:39 You have to test it, 15 years ago you didn't test.

00:57:42 - You can show it to other people,

00:57:43 look at other people passing, you haven't seen them.

00:57:45 You haven't seen me, right?

00:57:47 Huh?

00:57:48 You two rude, get away, get away, get away.

00:57:50 - Don't be like Mary.

00:57:52 Obey the laws of the road.

00:57:54 A message from the TTPS.

00:57:56 (upbeat music)

00:57:59 (upbeat music)

00:58:02 - You're all welcome back.

00:58:07 We are taking your calls on 623-1711.

00:58:10 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997.

00:58:15 So the lines are free again.

00:58:16 So if you want to call, please call now.

00:58:19 We have, go ahead.

00:58:21 - Yeah, let me also say,

00:58:23 you know we like to give those persons

00:58:25 who love this program to an opportunity

00:58:28 whenever their birthday comes around.

00:58:30 We have today, Miss Joanna Ford.

00:58:33 You understand that she is in fact 60 something.

00:58:39 I would just say that.

00:58:40 - Just about your age.

00:58:40 - Yeah, 60 something.

00:58:43 And we understand that she's,

00:58:46 she looks at the program since I was--

00:58:48 - Wearing shades.

00:58:51 - Since I was at three stripes.

00:58:53 You know, again, thank you my lady.

00:58:54 You know, I, at 67,

00:58:57 I'm hoping that you probably have grandchildren

00:58:59 and children and all of that.

00:59:01 So you, I hope that you are staying down that path

00:59:05 where they will be good citizens

00:59:07 and be able to share what you told them and teach others.

00:59:13 So they too could amount to that age that you reach

00:59:16 because that age is a gift these days,

00:59:17 you know, Miss Hopkinson.

00:59:18 The young persons are dying.

00:59:21 Sooner than we thought.

00:59:22 Some of them, they are relocating themselves

00:59:25 because of their behavior to the cemetery.

00:59:28 But at the end of the day, happy birthday my lady.

00:59:32 And we wish you many, many, many, many, many, many.

00:59:34 - And stay off the social media.

00:59:36 - Yeah.

00:59:37 - You know, women your age are very attractive

00:59:41 to a certain type of men abroad.

00:59:43 - Yeah.

00:59:44 - Yeah.

00:59:45 - I want to send you a nice flower.

00:59:47 - For your birthday.

00:59:48 - For your birthday.

00:59:49 (laughing)

00:59:50 - We don't want to--

00:59:51 - A nice cake.

00:59:52 I want to send you a nice cake.

00:59:54 - Yeah.

00:59:55 - I already purchased it.

00:59:56 But what happened, it has to get cleared in the customs.

01:00:00 - Look in the middle, you will find a gold bracelet.

01:00:04 - Yeah, I buy that just, I love you so much.

01:00:07 - Yeah.

01:00:07 - You need to send me at least $6,000.

01:00:10 - Yeah.

01:00:11 - Especially if you can get it in US.

01:00:13 (laughing)

01:00:14 - I love you more than Mount Kilimanjaro.

01:00:17 - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:00:18 And so on.

01:00:19 So, Mom, happy birthday.

01:00:20 All right?

01:00:22 - You will never get a birthday greeting like that again.

01:00:24 - Ever.

01:00:25 (laughing)

01:00:25 - All right, what we have next?

01:00:26 - What we have next, Jackie?

01:00:29 Oh, this gentleman is missing.

01:00:33 We understand that he may have some medical complications.

01:00:39 So we are calling on anybody who can assist,

01:00:42 whether it's the medical institutions

01:00:44 or the wives who may have seen him.

01:00:46 We don't know if something happened to him, any location.

01:00:49 Please, we are begging members of the public

01:00:51 and those institutions to help find him.

01:00:56 His relatives and friends are concerned.

01:01:01 So any information that could assist,

01:01:04 we are asking you kindly to send it to us.

01:01:10 Anybody with information, again,

01:01:12 you can call the Nevis Police Station, 555-800-TIPS,

01:01:16 or call the 999 Police Emergency Line.

01:01:18 All right?

01:01:20 - Or Belmont Police Station.

01:01:21 - Or the Belmont Police Station.

01:01:23 - Where they shoot the man in the road the other day.

01:01:25 That Belmont Police Station.

01:01:26 - Belmont, where they do what?

01:01:27 - Yeah, let's take a call, please.

01:01:28 Good evening, caller.

01:01:29 - Where they do what?

01:01:30 - You didn't know they shot someone

01:01:32 in front of Belmont Police Station?

01:01:33 You didn't know that?

01:01:34 Okay, let's take a call, please.

01:01:37 Good evening, caller.

01:01:39 - Who is this?

01:01:40 Good evening, gentlemen.

01:01:41 - What?

01:01:42 - You are the co-

01:01:43 (laughing)

01:01:45 - Where have you been?

01:01:47 - I have not been around for a couple of days,

01:01:50 but I have a question, though,

01:01:51 because I was not around,

01:01:52 so I'm asking a question before I make my statement.

01:01:55 Have you all focused on your program,

01:02:01 the six officers that was entitled

01:02:04 for the corruption that is there,

01:02:06 for misbehavior in public office?

01:02:08 - All right.

01:02:08 - Did you all feature them on your program?

01:02:10 - Of course, everybody who is, in fact,

01:02:14 put before the court is featured.

01:02:15 Now, let me just say,

01:02:17 know that there is an issue now more than ever

01:02:19 with respect to the display of persons photographed

01:02:23 on national television, right?

01:02:25 So-

01:02:26 - I understand there's some kind of legal parameter

01:02:29 that you have.

01:02:30 - Yeah, yeah.

01:02:31 So now we have to operate-

01:02:32 - It might be a company where they can't fix it,

01:02:32 bit of people's faces and whatnot.

01:02:34 - Right, and we also have the social media

01:02:35 to be very careful, too,

01:02:37 because people could be held liable.

01:02:39 So that's the only reason,

01:02:40 but yeah, we have discussed this situation before.

01:02:42 One of the things, though,

01:02:43 one of the things I would want to say to you,

01:02:48 many times persons talk about corruption

01:02:51 or corrupt practice,

01:02:52 and persons believe that it's always have some money

01:02:56 or something associated with it.

01:02:58 You know, and I was looking to it,

01:03:01 and I am taken away from what you're going to say,

01:03:03 and I was looking to that whole system,

01:03:05 and it's not always the case.

01:03:06 But however, go ahead.

01:03:08 - We know that you would like us to be sued,

01:03:10 so we're not showing no picture here

01:03:12 to end up in no court.

01:03:13 Go ahead.

01:03:14 - You know what?

01:03:16 I will leave that alone there,

01:03:17 but Alexander, you always do this cheeky little thing.

01:03:20 - What's that?

01:03:21 - To misdirect.

01:03:22 We are speaking about a situation

01:03:24 with six officers where money was involved.

01:03:26 Why are you trying to misdirect and say that?

01:03:29 - No, I'm not misdirecting.

01:03:31 - Money is involved.

01:03:33 I'm speaking about a specific situation.

01:03:35 - No, no, no, I'm just telling you,

01:03:37 every time we talk about corrupt practice,

01:03:38 we often think about money.

01:03:39 - It's the misdirection we just can't take, Alexander.

01:03:41 That's why people just fire off with the misdirection

01:03:44 when they're trying to misdirect.

01:03:45 - No, I didn't say that.

01:03:46 I didn't say that.

01:03:46 I didn't say anything.

01:03:47 I didn't say nothing, all right?

01:03:49 - The whole situation--

01:03:49 - I would like to compliment the TPS.

01:03:52 - What?

01:03:52 - I would like to compliment the TPS.

01:03:54 - What?

01:03:55 - On their job for highlighting the wrongdoings

01:04:00 of their officers and bringing them to the court

01:04:05 and putting them, you know, before the court.

01:04:09 - Namaste.

01:04:10 - Right?

01:04:11 Not many, not, hold on, hold on, hold on.

01:04:14 Not many other organizations--

01:04:18 - For the first time, first time I hear you say that.

01:04:20 - Don't give him any applause.

01:04:22 Don't give him any applause.

01:04:23 - Don't give him any applause, no applause.

01:04:23 - Take it back.

01:04:24 - The judiciary does find,

01:04:27 there's no other, they have magistrates doing wrongdoing

01:04:30 and they said nothing about it, right?

01:04:33 And the politicians, similarly with the politicians,

01:04:37 they don't do anything about their end too.

01:04:41 Are you hearing me?

01:04:41 - Yeah, I'm hearing you.

01:04:43 - You're right.

01:04:44 The politicians, there's no other politician

01:04:45 doing wrongdoing and they does nothing about it.

01:04:48 The police service and the military

01:04:51 are the two primary organizations that I know

01:04:54 when they find people falling short,

01:04:56 they either discharge them

01:04:57 or they bring them before the court.

01:04:59 So well done.

01:05:01 With the few that all of us do it with,

01:05:02 'cause I'm sure there are others who already know

01:05:04 and they maybe don't have the evidence

01:05:06 or maybe they're people's friends.

01:05:08 But for those of you who are highlighting,

01:05:11 thanks for the service.

01:05:13 Thanks for bringing these people,

01:05:15 getting them off the street

01:05:16 because these people could affect people's lives.

01:05:19 - Vanessa, I want to ask you something.

01:05:21 - Pardon me?

01:05:22 - I want to ask you something.

01:05:23 - He said, "Vanessa, I want to ask you something."

01:05:26 - I can ask you something?

01:05:28 - Go ahead, Alexander.

01:05:29 - All right, let me say this to you.

01:05:31 There's a large, there's a big talk about polygraph.

01:05:34 Lie detector test for those who don't understand

01:05:36 what polygraph means.

01:05:37 All over the place.

01:05:41 And persons often point their fingers at law enforcement

01:05:45 to be the first in terms of having this done to them.

01:05:50 Is that a fair statement to make

01:05:53 that police officers alone should face that polygraph test?

01:05:56 Go ahead.

01:05:57 - Well, no, it is not that police officers alone

01:06:03 should be doing it.

01:06:04 However, when police officers could affect your life

01:06:09 by putting you in a cage

01:06:12 or giving you a ticketed inconvenience

01:06:17 for thousands of dollars,

01:06:19 and meeting you on the street

01:06:20 and saying that you do X, Y, or Z,

01:06:24 I want to have a reasonable assurance

01:06:28 that the people who are out on the streets

01:06:30 are honorable, honest individuals.

01:06:33 - All right.

01:06:34 And it speaks to integrity and honesty and all of that.

01:06:37 But let me ask you something, too.

01:06:39 I know you're a person who would understand this.

01:06:41 At what level or percentage

01:06:44 a polygraph test is recognized worldwide?

01:06:47 Go ahead.

01:06:47 - Well, it is not recognized internationally.

01:06:53 - So then why are you giving it to me?

01:06:55 - Well, it's all we have to work with, Alexander.

01:06:58 - It's what we have to work with?

01:06:59 - It's all we have to work with

01:07:00 upon the separation from the court.

01:07:01 - No, no.

01:07:02 Well, let me say something.

01:07:03 Listen, if this is a situation

01:07:04 where it is not recognized worldwide

01:07:07 as no major thing.

01:07:09 - It's as credible as credible and factual.

01:07:11 - So then why are you giving it to me?

01:07:13 Because you tell me that's what we have to work with?

01:07:15 - Because he's not seeking the welfare of police officers.

01:07:18 - Exactly.

01:07:19 You see, and this is it.

01:07:20 - It's the individuals who are afraid that,

01:07:21 hey, I ain't doing anything.

01:07:23 - Listen, you are not seeking

01:07:25 the welfare of police officers.

01:07:27 - No, no, we're not.

01:07:28 - You're not doing so today, and you never have.

01:07:30 - Never will.

01:07:31 But I will tell you this.

01:07:33 I will tell you this, Dennis.

01:07:35 I have no problem with going and standing there

01:07:38 and speaking to that.

01:07:39 But you know what I would like to see though?

01:07:41 I want to see it trickle down.

01:07:43 Not just in my organization, like this.

01:07:46 - And trickle up.

01:07:49 - And trickle up.

01:07:51 (laughing)

01:07:51 - That would be me, gentlemen.

01:07:53 - All right, Dennis.

01:07:54 It's always good to hear from you.

01:07:55 - Always good to hear from you.

01:07:56 - You sound a little, you know.

01:07:58 - Yeah, you sound, you can hear COVID.

01:08:01 (laughing)

01:08:01 - You are still a little bad boy.

01:08:03 - You know, it's always good to hear

01:08:05 from you. - I hear like steps

01:08:07 in his breathing.

01:08:08 - Alexander, let's go to our break, please.

01:08:10 - You hear steps in his breathing?

01:08:11 - No, I didn't hear anything.

01:08:12 - All right, okay. - I'll be back.

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01:10:06 - All right, everybody, let's take another call.

01:10:12 Good evening, caller.

01:10:13 - Good evening.

01:10:15 - Good evening, ma'am.

01:10:16 Good evening, senior superintendent.

01:10:18 - Good evening, sir.

01:10:19 - How are you, gentlemen?

01:10:20 How are you, gentlemen, today?

01:10:22 - We're good, we're good.

01:10:22 How are you?

01:10:23 - Okay, I'm calling from Ocala, Florida.

01:10:26 - Florida. - And I've posted

01:10:28 quite widely on your blog and other threads

01:10:33 that I do not think that several policemen

01:10:39 arrested or charged can get a fair trial in Trinidad and Tobago.

01:10:45 If you read all the blogs, look, listen to all the comments.

01:10:50 All this pretrial publicity,

01:10:53 I don't think these officers

01:10:55 could get a fair trial in Trinidad.

01:10:59 Now, I don't know if they have ever sent a trial

01:11:01 to a caricam country, but if I were a lawyer,

01:11:05 for any of these, first of all,

01:11:07 I would want six jurors at least

01:11:10 to be relatives of police officers.

01:11:12 I would hate to know that these 12 random citizens

01:11:17 have to try these guys.

01:11:20 Have a blessed one, my friend.

01:11:21 - You too, sir.

01:11:22 Thank you very much for your call.

01:11:24 - You know something about--

01:11:25 - We're taking a few more calls.

01:11:26 - Yesterday, the statement was about,

01:11:28 you talk about pretrial--

01:11:30 - Trial publicity?

01:11:31 - Trial publicity, and it is difficult

01:11:35 to get away from that in a small country like this.

01:11:37 - Yes, it is. - Very, very difficult.

01:11:39 Because I remember when I was put before the court

01:11:42 for this assault thing, it went on for like nine, 10 days,

01:11:46 you know, when people say all kind of different things.

01:11:49 And it's not a, you know, when you knew

01:11:53 you would have done nothing,

01:11:54 you face the consequences of it, you know?

01:11:57 And you face the consequences in such a way

01:11:59 that you are not going to back down,

01:12:04 you're standing up and facing it head on.

01:12:07 Because it's you explaining what you did

01:12:11 as a police officer.

01:12:13 You didn't go outside your duties, you know?

01:12:16 This is what, if there's someone on your premises,

01:12:19 and it came back after this situation with me,

01:12:22 I see that trespass law and all these things

01:12:24 would have come in, and it brought me back to that.

01:12:27 If someone is on your premises,

01:12:29 and I cannot go to the premises

01:12:30 and get the personal outfit, then what is my job?

01:12:33 What is the purpose of having this job?

01:12:35 - All right, thank you.

01:12:36 Let's take a call.

01:12:37 - Good evening, caller.

01:12:38 - Good evening, caller.

01:12:40 - Good evening, gentlemen.

01:12:41 - Yes, good evening.

01:12:43 It's just incidental that I get you after the nemesis.

01:12:47 However, I'd like to thank him for his recognition,

01:12:52 senior and Marlon, of the efforts of the organization.

01:12:56 The police service continues to me

01:12:58 in terms of trying to bring its current members around.

01:13:03 But I wanted to ask a question.

01:13:06 I was hoping to get you yesterday

01:13:08 to speak with Corporal Ali, and the question is this, right?

01:13:12 Everybody in a professional capacity

01:13:15 who is accused of wrongdoing

01:13:18 at a public sector organizations

01:13:21 have the opportunity of going through a tribunal process.

01:13:24 You know, their name is cleared.

01:13:28 I think yesterday, two officers from the Tobago Division

01:13:31 were cleared of allegations after 18 years, right?

01:13:35 So this is 18 years away from the job

01:13:37 that they sworn to do.

01:13:39 - Yeah.

01:13:39 - Yeah, but we don't know how they would have survived

01:13:41 through the 18 years and so on,

01:13:42 and I interdicted salary, right?

01:13:45 And they would not be able to come back into the job.

01:13:48 Think about it, Marlon.

01:13:49 18 years ago, there were so many processes and so on,

01:13:52 and procedures in the police service

01:13:55 that these men now have to fall back in

01:13:57 and come up to speed with.

01:13:59 Understand?

01:14:00 - Yes.

01:14:01 - And then in addition, you will have the situation

01:14:03 of the amount of leave that you will have been entitled to

01:14:07 while you were on suspension is accumulated to them.

01:14:11 And the position of how that will be treated with.

01:14:15 You understand?

01:14:16 So I'm saying that perhaps the situation

01:14:21 with respect to police officers being on suspension

01:14:23 whilst they're innocent until proven guilty as a mechanism,

01:14:28 to me, that is a punishment

01:14:30 before you have been tried and convicted

01:14:32 by any tribunal of your peers.

01:14:34 - I have said that over and over and over.

01:14:38 - That is against the constitutional rights

01:14:40 of such persons.

01:14:41 Whilst we understand the office that they may hold

01:14:45 is an important one,

01:14:47 but due process must be done,

01:14:49 and it must be done swiftly,

01:14:52 especially where it is they are in a position of trust.

01:14:55 So I wanted to ask Corporal Ali,

01:14:57 if it would, what he think would be the outcome

01:15:00 of such an officer, officers of that personage,

01:15:04 where seniors who was in that position,

01:15:06 bringing a constitutional matter

01:15:09 based on those grounds and how successful it would be.

01:15:12 And you know, for me,

01:15:13 I think if it reaches all the way to the Privy Council,

01:15:17 the Privy Council would see that is not justice.

01:15:21 It is very unjust and tyrannical to treat people like that.

01:15:26 - And let me say this,

01:15:29 I am one of the persons,

01:15:31 because I had an assault matter for two years in the court.

01:15:35 Two years, an assault matter, simple matter,

01:15:37 somewhat simple, for two years.

01:15:40 And that's two years suspension on you.

01:15:43 It just goes to show,

01:15:44 I know some persons are out now 12 years, 18 years.

01:15:47 There are some persons out long, very, very long.

01:15:51 And whose fault it is that these matters are not ready.

01:15:56 After 18 years, how come a matter could not be ready

01:15:59 after a year?

01:16:00 So I'm asking, not even a year,

01:16:03 but now with the new system that we have,

01:16:05 matters are ready, but it is not on,

01:16:08 sometimes the accused person,

01:16:10 but because of the court itself,

01:16:12 having so much of matters to deal with,

01:16:14 it is almost impossible to deal with a matter

01:16:15 on a particular day.

01:16:16 - Correct observation, Senior Supervisor.

01:16:18 If we have the Police Service Commission

01:16:22 to deal with these very matters of police officers,

01:16:25 how about a special tribunal

01:16:30 just to deal with matters for the police service

01:16:34 under the Police Service Commission?

01:16:36 You see, you have the Environmental Commission

01:16:40 and the Tax Appeal Board,

01:16:42 perhaps with the fact that we have a plethora of new courts

01:16:47 down at the waterfront doors,

01:16:49 perhaps that may be something that may fall

01:16:53 into the lap of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission.

01:16:57 Perhaps a matter that your good friend, Mr. Hopkinson,

01:17:00 could raise at some point

01:17:02 when he has one of these functionaries

01:17:05 come on the program to speak with him on the morning show.

01:17:09 - Let me ask you this, caller, before you go.

01:17:11 What about if an investigation is done

01:17:15 in terms of what the persons did?

01:17:19 And depending on what the person is accused of,

01:17:23 then we could decide whether that person

01:17:25 goes on suspension or not.

01:17:26 And it must be across the board.

01:17:29 - I agree with that,

01:17:30 and also when they are cleared of wrongdoing,

01:17:33 I would like to see public apologies

01:17:36 and full page ads in all the newspapers.

01:17:40 - It don't ever happen, caller.

01:17:41 It don't ever happen because you get a big story.

01:17:44 Alexander did this.

01:17:45 - Thank you.

01:17:47 - But when the matter was thrown out of the court.

01:17:50 - On several occasions,

01:17:51 when you and my man would interact with each other,

01:17:55 you have explained the question of jurisdiction

01:17:59 within the Triangle Police Service

01:18:01 and we conduct a lot of inquiries and so on.

01:18:03 And this morning and this afternoon,

01:18:05 I was at pains to listen to two talk shows

01:18:09 talking about a matter investigated

01:18:11 and action taken by officers on the Princess Stone Station

01:18:15 with respect to a young lady from the Port of Spain area

01:18:19 and how she was taken.

01:18:21 And it was filmed in such a manner

01:18:23 that the police had no authority

01:18:25 to leave their jurisdiction

01:18:27 and because of the officers would be smooched,

01:18:31 whereby they were seen as thieves and so on.

01:18:33 It involved a matter of jewelry.

01:18:36 And for people, people should understand,

01:18:39 when there are inquiries involving jewelry,

01:18:42 because of the fact that the jewelry could be altered

01:18:45 from the original state when it is stolen,

01:18:47 police have to do a particular kind of inquiry

01:18:50 with respect to jewelry and other precious metals

01:18:53 before they could be returned to the owner.

01:18:56 If it is stolen and it is altered,

01:18:59 then it falls into a different category of investigations.

01:19:04 - I recognize.

01:19:04 - And I'm saying, sir, that when people are at talk shows,

01:19:08 before they come and run them out,

01:19:11 they should get some assistance

01:19:13 and assistance from people who know

01:19:15 about how these things go,

01:19:16 like the good sense and other senior officers

01:19:18 in the police service.

01:19:20 So I think at some point, perhaps next week

01:19:22 or in the preceding week before the season ends,

01:19:25 Mr. Koppel-Ali may be able to address the specificity

01:19:28 of inquiries with respect to when jewelry is taken and sold

01:19:33 and the jurisdiction of officers to investigate matters

01:19:36 throughout the country in all 10 police divisions.

01:19:40 That's all, gentlemen.

01:19:41 - Thank you very much, sir.

01:19:42 - All I can tell you is this,

01:19:43 is the absence of toilet paper

01:19:45 for some of those talk show hosts.

01:19:48 - Let's go to our break, please.

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01:21:07 we are calling on all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago

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01:22:33 - All right, so welcome back.

01:22:37 We just have a few minutes again,

01:22:39 and this time we'd like to say a very special happy birthday

01:22:42 to Whitney Misha Madera.

01:22:44 That's a star girl name, boy.

01:22:46 Whitney Misha Madera.

01:22:47 - That's my daughter.

01:22:48 - So happy birthday to you, yeah?

01:22:50 - What kind of name?

01:22:51 - A star girl name.

01:22:53 You gave me the name, you know.

01:22:56 - Hey, careful now, careful now.

01:22:58 (laughing)

01:23:00 Easy, easy.

01:23:04 Right, where are we?

01:23:05 Let me just, let me pull back something here

01:23:09 that someone sent to me earlier this week here.

01:23:12 Oh, talking about that, Mr. Hopkins,

01:23:15 I am looking at a visit to school next week, Friday.

01:23:20 Say we have lost our way sometimes

01:23:26 in terms of how we reach people.

01:23:28 A lot of officers are trying different things

01:23:30 and we are reaching people now more than ever.

01:23:33 I saw some persons making statements

01:23:36 about what my commissioner would have said

01:23:40 with respect to parenting.

01:23:42 And they must be held with some level, Mr. Hopkins,

01:23:47 in terms of their responsibility towards their children.

01:23:54 I was asking the question before,

01:23:57 how come that we are given so much responsibility over people

01:24:02 in terms of the care for them.

01:24:06 They want us to do every single thing known to man,

01:24:10 which I have often said is unfair to law enforcement.

01:24:13 Law enforcement officers,

01:24:17 we have removed the law enforcement officer

01:24:21 from within the script.

01:24:23 And now we are police officers

01:24:27 and we are just given all sorts of responsibilities

01:24:32 and we are left there to do it.

01:24:35 Some of us have no training at all

01:24:37 in some of the things that we are asked to do, Mr. Hopkins.

01:24:39 You know, you're aware of that.

01:24:41 But you don't care.

01:24:42 You find that anything that happens anywhere,

01:24:44 send the police.

01:24:46 Your children behaving like animals in school,

01:24:48 send the police.

01:24:49 Your children behaving like animals at home,

01:24:51 send the police.

01:24:52 Yeah?

01:24:54 Mommy cursing her son, her son cursing mommy,

01:24:57 send the police.

01:24:59 And so we're going, you know.

01:25:00 We are doctors, lawyers, dentists.

01:25:03 We are nurses, we are everything.

01:25:06 But the funny thing is whenever I ask for compensation,

01:25:09 you jump up on a high horse and make statements.

01:25:12 - God, you want more money.

01:25:13 - You see, you see, you see?

01:25:14 I don't understand you.

01:25:16 However, the gentleman, my colleague,

01:25:20 just brought up a topic there

01:25:20 and it is very interesting because,

01:25:23 Marlon, how do you explain that

01:25:25 after 18 years, I'm about to just finish?

01:25:28 How, how does that happen?

01:25:30 What could have happened?

01:25:32 - That's poor.

01:25:33 That's very, very poor.

01:25:34 - What could have happened within that timeframe

01:25:36 for this matter not to start, not to be completed?

01:25:39 I don't understand, but I hope one day we will.

01:25:42 - All right.

01:25:43 Thank you very much, sir.

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