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00:03:04 - I don't think she would be singing a ballgame.
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00:03:32 - I don't know how to follow that performance there.
00:03:35 That's the late, great Jason's voice there.
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00:03:40 It is Thursday, the Thursday before Christmas.
00:03:44 A very special good afternoon, Trinidad and Tobago
00:03:46 and the rest of the world.
00:03:47 I'm Marlon Hopkins.
00:03:48 As always, welcome to another program of Beyond the Tape.
00:03:50 A very special good afternoon to our friends in the US,
00:03:53 in the UK, in Canada, in the Middle East, in South Africa,
00:03:57 all across the world.
00:03:58 A very special good afternoon to our friends
00:04:00 in the Caribbean, including our friends in Grenada.
00:04:05 A very special good afternoon to you.
00:04:06 - We have a new producer.
00:04:08 - A what?
00:04:09 - Who's that?
00:04:10 Who's that?
00:04:11 - Mr. Senior Superintendent of the IATF,
00:04:15 Roger D. Alexander is here with us.
00:04:17 - Listen, that is Jackie there?
00:04:20 - Mm-hmm.
00:04:21 - What, Jackie, what's going on?
00:04:23 - She's a carnival, not carnival, a Christmas baby.
00:04:26 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - A Christmas baby.
00:04:28 - But you grew up in the bush, yeah?
00:04:28 So you know what I mean?
00:04:29 In the bush, there's not a lot of this carnival,
00:04:32 sorry, Christmas participation, yeah.
00:04:37 - Jackie, you have met anything?
00:04:39 - Jackie's the first person I know
00:04:41 come from country and can cook.
00:04:42 (laughs)
00:04:44 - She said she could cook, I just don't cook.
00:04:48 - Yeah, you're an agent of BF, BF?
00:04:51 - No. - Buy food.
00:04:52 - No, she's not.
00:04:55 - She's not?
00:04:56 - Of exotic foods.
00:04:58 - Oh, she has pepsi meals, you say?
00:05:00 - Mm-hmm. - Okay.
00:05:02 - She has seen, she has seen, she has seen, she has seen.
00:05:04 She has seen everything.
00:05:06 Anyhow, good afternoon.
00:05:08 - Yeah, good afternoon to all of you, yeah?
00:05:10 - How was your day, Mr. Hopkinson?
00:05:12 - Today was good, man, a bit hot.
00:05:14 - Yeah. - A bit hot,
00:05:15 but it was good for people to go about their business.
00:05:19 - Well, let me say this, today,
00:05:22 I love to meet people in the streets
00:05:24 and have conversations with them
00:05:26 about a number of issues, and today,
00:05:28 a conversation came up with my boss.
00:05:33 - Mm-hmm.
00:05:34 A conversation came up with your boss or about your boss?
00:05:38 - About my boss. - Okay, good.
00:05:39 - Yeah, so about my boss, the commissioner of police.
00:05:43 And, you know, talking to the persons there,
00:05:46 they were not like some persons
00:05:49 would make certain comments
00:05:50 and don't show the evidence of their comments there.
00:05:55 You know, they want to say things,
00:05:57 and here it was, it was like this, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:06:00 and I say this every day.
00:06:01 No one man is an island, and no one man stands alone.
00:06:06 Let us start right there.
00:06:09 And that is how I started the conversation today,
00:06:12 and I said to them, I said, "Let me ask you this.
00:06:15 You are the owner of a farm,
00:06:18 number of animals, number of predators, yeah?
00:06:23 Can you man that turf all alone?"
00:06:26 No, you can't, and that is the reality of things.
00:06:30 And I said all this to say, you know,
00:06:32 sometimes persons would make certain statements
00:06:35 about the commissioner of police, but understand this.
00:06:39 In order to be the most effective at your job,
00:06:43 you must have support from your executive
00:06:47 right down to the end of the last joint constable.
00:06:53 And even if that is happening, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:06:55 you know the greatest support will come from
00:06:58 the people yourself.
00:06:59 And if persons don't understand that,
00:07:03 so you, it makes no sense that you make comments
00:07:06 about law enforcement and what they're doing
00:07:07 and what they're not doing.
00:07:09 And then when they ask you the same question,
00:07:11 what are you doing or what have you done?
00:07:13 The answer is nil, or you come up with some excuse,
00:07:17 just like everybody else, well, you know, afraid,
00:07:20 and you know, you're afraid.
00:07:23 While you stay there and you're being frightened
00:07:25 out of your wits, the criminal element continues
00:07:29 to run rings around us.
00:07:31 They continue to come into your homes.
00:07:33 They continue to steal your cars.
00:07:35 They have gone so far now, they have reached
00:07:38 the social media and technology and fooling you online.
00:07:43 You want a bar car?
00:07:44 Look one here.
00:07:45 - $5,000.
00:07:49 - $5,000, listen.
00:07:50 - Christmas sale.
00:07:52 - I dream he was going to call me and I said,
00:07:56 I will leave this car just for you.
00:07:58 - My blood just take you boy.
00:07:59 - Yeah, my blood take you.
00:08:00 And what I want you to do is this.
00:08:02 Go by the union and drop the money.
00:08:04 All right, and as soon as you reach by the union,
00:08:07 call me, I say, drop the money.
00:08:09 Just let me know and you'll see a car coming
00:08:11 around the corner, around the corner.
00:08:14 And listen, for now, anytime I give somebody something,
00:08:18 I cannot give away this car,
00:08:20 but I give somebody something,
00:08:21 I want to see a take care of it.
00:08:22 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:08:23 I'll polish it up, polish it up.
00:08:25 I'll roll the wheel, you see?
00:08:27 So as I said before, the support must come
00:08:33 from every single Trinidadian and not left only
00:08:38 to one section of the community
00:08:40 who's responsible for crime.
00:08:42 We are not alone in this because we never told you
00:08:48 that we intend to do this alone.
00:08:50 We have called on every section of the community
00:08:52 to participate because you know why?
00:08:54 Victims come from near and far.
00:08:57 Police officers have become victims of crime.
00:09:02 Their families, members of the defense force,
00:09:05 members of national security have all become
00:09:07 victims of crime, yeah?
00:09:10 So is the little lady with the little parlor, yeah?
00:09:14 So is the manager of a particular place, the CEO,
00:09:19 and I could go on and on.
00:09:21 So if you continue believing that you are in this
00:09:26 and your part is not important,
00:09:29 well, then we'll continue to have diseases that we have here.
00:09:32 Play your part and then make statements,
00:09:35 really, really listen.
00:09:36 I have contributed to this.
00:09:38 I have contributed to that.
00:09:41 Yesterday, I wanted to play a voice note.
00:09:42 You know why?
00:09:44 Because on that voice note,
00:09:47 have supporters, more than three, four, five, 6,000.
00:09:53 But you know what's strange, though?
00:09:56 - Supporters of what?
00:09:57 - Of what they think that they were doing.
00:10:00 There are police officers,
00:10:02 guys now getting tickets in Curep Junction doing fast there.
00:10:05 You see, and they're supporters of that, right?
00:10:09 So you tell me, if someone is going out there
00:10:12 and he has supporters doing that type of stuff,
00:10:15 and you still want to know why the detection rate is so low?
00:10:22 You want to know why?
00:10:23 Really?
00:10:25 You need to ask yourself that question.
00:10:26 Why the detection rate is so low?
00:10:29 When you have contributed more than once.
00:10:31 Listen, the criminal elements love all, you know?
00:10:33 Like pig love mud, like how sand fly love sand,
00:10:35 and like how fly love sweet bread, you know?
00:10:37 Because they have formed you all.
00:10:39 (audience laughing)
00:10:42 Joining arms with them, knowingly or unknowingly, simple.
00:10:47 - But Alexander, the argument is going to be
00:10:51 that you all are going to have to find a way
00:10:53 to counteract that.
00:10:54 - Yes, and that is what we're doing.
00:10:56 That is why this program is so important.
00:11:00 Yesterday, I received a call on this program here,
00:11:02 and I communicated with a gentleman last night,
00:11:05 and he told me something.
00:11:08 Today, officers went and take a look
00:11:10 at what is happening there, and we'll see how it progress.
00:11:12 And that's what we're about.
00:11:14 And I continue to ask members of the public this.
00:11:18 Instead of taking your phone and sending thing
00:11:22 and put it up for likes, right now, alive, alive, alive.
00:11:27 And then you're reporting on it,
00:11:29 that a man was just shot,
00:11:31 and I think they're carrying hospital already
00:11:33 and all kind of thing, only to realize it's just an RTA.
00:11:36 It's just an accident, you see?
00:11:38 But persons are relating,
00:11:39 and the amount of reporters that have TV six
00:11:42 should have a easy job doing interviews.
00:11:45 The amount of reporters that have out there,
00:11:48 no more than ever.
00:11:50 - But again, Alexander, there has to be a way
00:11:53 to police what is happening on social media.
00:11:56 - Right, and this is why I'm calling on the authorities.
00:11:59 The time has come in Trinidad and Tobago,
00:12:01 and the longer we wait, the worse it could get.
00:12:05 Nobody in Trinidad and Tobago, nobody,
00:12:09 let me go down this particular road.
00:12:12 Nobody in Trinidad and Tobago
00:12:14 should have a video
00:12:19 flashing firearms.
00:12:28 And the public is looking at it.
00:12:34 The children is looking at it,
00:12:36 and they're terrorized from what they see.
00:12:38 The law is supposed to come into effect
00:12:43 as soon as possible to treat it as.
00:12:46 No one should do that.
00:12:48 It's like looking at domestic terrorism
00:12:50 where you are panicking members of the public
00:12:52 by the display of what you have.
00:12:54 But that is not happening yet.
00:12:57 Even when you're outside of this country,
00:13:01 even when you're outside of this country,
00:13:04 and you're not a citizen,
00:13:06 and you're not a resident of particular areas,
00:13:10 and you display the firearm,
00:13:13 and you think you get away,
00:13:16 we will see.
00:13:18 That's all I'll say about that.
00:13:20 We will see, because
00:13:23 you're not a citizen and you're not a resident,
00:13:27 but you have a firearm.
00:13:30 Take care, pick up a conspiracy.
00:13:33 - All right, so we do have a video for you.
00:13:36 Last night there was a shooting in the Curep area.
00:13:38 - Last night, again.
00:13:41 We understand that the person managed to escape.
00:13:46 We understand that he was injured slightly, somewhat.
00:13:53 That's what they were saying.
00:13:55 But again, the shooting would never stop
00:13:58 because the nation's streets,
00:14:01 we have to police that now more than ever.
00:14:04 But members of the public,
00:14:05 that's why we are calling on you to help.
00:14:08 We don't want you to come out into the roadway
00:14:10 and police with us.
00:14:11 Be our eyes and our ears.
00:14:16 We are in this together.
00:14:17 Marlon, let me ask you this, time and time again.
00:14:21 You think we should go into 2024
00:14:24 and coming around the same time
00:14:27 having the same conversation about 500 and something?
00:14:31 Absolutely not.
00:14:32 Do you think in 2024, we should come around again
00:14:39 and still having issues with persons
00:14:43 who the public is questioning
00:14:47 whether they should have received bail or not?
00:14:49 Do you think we should go into 2024,
00:14:53 make a full circle and come back here again?
00:14:56 And we're still asking members of the public
00:14:59 like they do know their role and function.
00:15:01 Listen, we need you, we need you, we need you.
00:15:03 When you are victims of crime,
00:15:08 do you want to wait?
00:15:09 Why person should be allowed to have AR-15s,
00:15:15 weapons of war on the nation's streets?
00:15:17 And when you are held, when they are held,
00:15:21 it's like just having another pistol in your pocket.
00:15:24 There must be some degree of separation
00:15:30 between the man who has a firearm on the streets.
00:15:33 What is the purpose of having that firearm on the street?
00:15:37 What is the purpose of you having that firearm in your car?
00:15:41 What are you going to do?
00:15:42 And then we have the business owners
00:15:48 who's crying out and say, listen, Alexander,
00:15:52 we need to arm ourselves.
00:15:59 And rightfully so, I would never disagree with that
00:16:04 because most of the time,
00:16:06 if not all the time, you're the main target.
00:16:08 We would want to find a way in 2024,
00:16:15 where the process, we could speed up the process,
00:16:20 but still maintain the integrity of the investigation
00:16:25 to such an extent where it's a win-win situation.
00:16:29 So we cannot just say, you know what?
00:16:33 Mr. John wants a gun because he was robbed several times.
00:16:37 Nobody reported that Mr. John wants a gun,
00:16:41 but has beat his wife.
00:16:42 You see?
00:16:44 Who's going to report that?
00:16:48 So the integrity of the investigation must be maintained,
00:16:54 but at the same time,
00:16:55 at the same time,
00:16:58 we have to find a way to speed up the process.
00:17:00 Question was asked today,
00:17:04 what do we do to change things in 2024?
00:17:09 From the policing point of view,
00:17:11 we need to recruit some police officers
00:17:15 because you have to understand,
00:17:17 it's not a matter of more policing.
00:17:19 Until technology changes the game,
00:17:23 there must be more police.
00:17:24 And if we get more police,
00:17:28 we are hoping and praying that these persons genuinely came
00:17:33 to serve, to protect and serve the people of this country.
00:17:40 - Let me tell you, you see,
00:17:45 as long as we continue to have a conversation
00:17:49 that it would seem that the conversation is
00:17:54 that the police service is the plaster for every saw
00:18:01 in Trinidad and Tobago,
00:18:03 you are going to continue to have
00:18:06 a very serious crime problem.
00:18:08 Because the crime problem is bigger than the police.
00:18:12 - And you said it.
00:18:12 - It is bigger than the police.
00:18:14 - And you said it.
00:18:15 Let me, what time do we get to the break?
00:18:17 - You have to go to a break now,
00:18:18 but let's remind persons of their numbers.
00:18:19 All right?
00:18:20 So the numbers are 623-1711.
00:18:22 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997.
00:18:27 Again, the numbers are 623-1711.
00:18:30 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997.
00:18:35 We all go to a very short break.
00:18:36 We're coming back.
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00:18:55 The furniture, car, boat,
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00:18:59 - This will look really nice on my coat, boy.
00:19:02 - They even make them pillow too.
00:19:04 - It's prank.
00:19:05 - Oh, yeah?
00:19:06 - Oh, shucks, I forget the money.
00:19:07 - Serious?
00:19:08 - It's a pay for it for me.
00:19:10 - Me and my big mouth, boy.
00:19:11 I wonder if radical get thing to cover mouth yet.
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00:20:51 No?
00:20:52 Then don't drink and drive.
00:20:54 - A message from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
00:20:59 (upbeat music)
00:21:12 - All right, welcome back.
00:21:14 All right, let's return to our program.
00:21:16 We do have another video for you.
00:21:18 It's of a shooting at phase six in La Joqueta.
00:21:21 - Shooting at phase six in La Joqueta.
00:21:26 Everybody gone.
00:21:42 - Gone.
00:21:43 - Gone, busting.
00:21:45 - Who is in pursuit of them?
00:21:46 Okay, so somebody is shooting at,
00:21:52 was shooting at this vehicle and these people.
00:21:54 - Gone, busting.
00:21:55 Well, let me just say this.
00:21:59 As we speak, the senior superintendent
00:22:04 of the Northern Division North,
00:22:08 Sir Francis and his team,
00:22:11 there is a man and woman hunt
00:22:15 because we are police officers
00:22:18 and we have men and women with us.
00:22:21 All for a particular individual as we speak
00:22:24 with respect to that shooting today.
00:22:26 All right?
00:22:29 Again, there's a man and woman hunt
00:22:32 all for a suspect in that shooting today.
00:22:38 If anybody want information,
00:22:39 further information, you can assist
00:22:41 by contacting the nearest police station,
00:22:45 555 unit, 800-TIP,
00:22:49 or call the 999 police emergency line.
00:22:54 And give us any information that you have
00:22:57 concerning that situation in La Joqueta today.
00:22:59 All right?
00:23:01 - All right, we're moving on.
00:23:04 We're going into the South area now.
00:23:05 We do have another video for you.
00:23:07 Happened at a store at C3.
00:23:09 - Everything is everything with Southern soldiers.
00:23:16 (speaking in foreign language)
00:23:24 (silence)
00:23:26 - At this age, boy?
00:23:41 Wow.
00:23:42 (laughing)
00:23:44 - I mean,
00:23:45 some people believe that they would not be recognized
00:23:52 because of the age,
00:23:53 so it's pretty much attention to them.
00:23:55 But they can't help themselves.
00:23:57 The women things in this body like them,
00:24:02 ladies and everything.
00:24:03 Remember the woman who had the milk,
00:24:07 the oven, the fridge, the TV, the stove,
00:24:11 the microwave, and the pram, all of that,
00:24:17 at one location.
00:24:18 You saw that, what just happened there?
00:24:19 These are senior citizens from West Jaffa.
00:24:22 Senior citizens participating in camps.
00:24:24 What do you think is happening with these children?
00:24:28 - I am just thinking what sort of a life
00:24:31 they would have lived.
00:24:33 Because to get to this age--
00:24:34 - And doing that.
00:24:35 - And be doing that,
00:24:37 I'm just wondering what sort of life that they lived.
00:24:40 Because it is an achievement to attain that age,
00:24:44 whatever the age is.
00:24:45 - And it's an achievement to steal in those places too.
00:24:48 So they're just out there to achieve.
00:24:51 (laughs)
00:24:52 - My God.
00:24:53 All right.
00:24:54 - Mullen, if you saw your father?
00:24:55 - No, you can't see him.
00:24:57 - Oh, good Lord.
00:24:59 - When he was alive, you wouldn't see him in that.
00:25:01 Now he's dead, you can't see him in that.
00:25:03 - Listen, if I sit down this evening, sir,
00:25:05 and I see, wait now, my daddy on TV?
00:25:08 And, yo, Mr. Augustine, if that's my father,
00:25:13 and I'm a police officer, he's detained, you know?
00:25:16 He's sitting on the chair watching me on the tape,
00:25:17 I say, "Daddy, you're not obliged to say anything."
00:25:21 Who calling me?
00:25:22 (laughs)
00:25:23 What, you don't have a job or what?
00:25:25 Calling me this hour?
00:25:27 - You're not obliged to say anything.
00:25:31 I'm taking him to the nearest police station
00:25:32 because of what I just saw.
00:25:34 - Yeah.
00:25:34 - And I'm dead serious.
00:25:36 - All right, we do have another video for you.
00:25:38 It's someone being followed
00:25:39 after visiting a financial institution.
00:25:42 - And this, again, citizens,
00:25:49 now this is why persons are calling for firearms.
00:25:53 But the question is, the question is,
00:25:56 as I said before,
00:25:58 and I have contacted the firearms section,
00:26:02 and there are no issues.
00:26:04 As I said before, one of the things
00:26:06 that they're trying to treat with,
00:26:08 and I indicated to them today,
00:26:10 is that feedback that we mentioned yesterday.
00:26:14 Give persons feedback so that at least they will know
00:26:18 on which leg they are standing
00:26:20 with respect to the application.
00:26:21 And I think that is a reasonable request.
00:26:22 - Look at this, look at this, look at this.
00:26:24 Look at this.
00:26:25 - Yeah.
00:26:26 - Look at this.
00:26:28 - Look at Fluffy, Fluffy, get Vex in him.
00:26:30 All right, so let me ask you this, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:26:38 that person standing on the outside of the car there,
00:26:41 let's just say you gifted her.
00:26:43 Would she be the right to send you home to see Jesus?
00:26:47 - I would think so.
00:26:49 - Okay.
00:26:49 Just imagine that some persons will never recover from this.
00:26:55 And I heard you say something before.
00:26:58 If, when persons go to court,
00:27:01 if the time has come for the magistrate or judges,
00:27:05 master of the court, to take into consideration
00:27:08 how you're feeling then, how you're feeling now,
00:27:14 that whole situation.
00:27:15 Have you, did you receive counseling
00:27:18 and how well has that done for you?
00:27:20 Are you still afraid to live,
00:27:22 to come outside and all of these things?
00:27:24 Should that play a very important part
00:27:26 in the sentencing of persons?
00:27:28 - You have to, you have to.
00:27:30 - Should it play an important part
00:27:31 in granting bail to persons too?
00:27:33 Because if I'm scared then,
00:27:36 and I would have identified these persons here,
00:27:40 and next thing you know, I am out somewhere again
00:27:42 and I see them again, how am I supposed to feel?
00:27:45 (inhales)
00:27:47 And all of these are questions
00:27:49 and some of them might be answers to some of yours.
00:27:53 You all could come forward and discuss these things.
00:27:55 And that is how a nation is built,
00:27:57 or start building itself.
00:28:00 When you look at all the flaws that you have
00:28:02 with different issues and you are able
00:28:04 to get solutions to them,
00:28:05 then I cannot see there be an issue for too long.
00:28:08 The issue then remains with those in authority
00:28:10 who should be providing that type of atmosphere
00:28:13 for persons to have a better, greater sense of belief.
00:28:16 Yeah, in what is happening.
00:28:18 Where are we?
00:28:20 - I continue to speak about that situation
00:28:24 where people are being robbed after going to--
00:28:27 - Yeah, institutions.
00:28:29 - Take money from these institutions.
00:28:32 And we have said in the past
00:28:35 that you have to adopt other ways of doing business.
00:28:39 - Right.
00:28:40 - So either paying people by check,
00:28:42 wiring the monies, transferring the monies,
00:28:44 however you want to do it.
00:28:46 But every time you go to withdraw funds,
00:28:51 and I know that a lot of you like to feel the money
00:28:55 in your hand.
00:28:56 - They like to pull it and touch it.
00:28:57 - Yeah, but the bandit also likes to feel that too.
00:28:59 - And taste it.
00:29:00 - Right?
00:29:01 So when I'm doing business now,
00:29:04 I'm not going to no bank for no money.
00:29:06 If you want to do business with me,
00:29:08 you're going to have to do it.
00:29:09 And I wire the funds or I transfer the funds.
00:29:12 - However you want to do it.
00:29:12 - Or go in the institution and do it.
00:29:15 - I'm not walking around with no money.
00:29:16 - That's it.
00:29:17 Why don't you go in the institution and do it?
00:29:18 Right there, right there, right there.
00:29:19 - Yeah.
00:29:20 - Because I want to say to you,
00:29:21 the time has come for us to have a totally cashless society.
00:29:26 - Yes.
00:29:27 - And that is it.
00:29:28 Business persons, you know that too.
00:29:29 I know you want to feel it, you want to hold it,
00:29:32 you want to touch it.
00:29:33 But the time has come for you to be cashless.
00:29:36 - You have to.
00:29:37 I said that last day.
00:29:38 - Yeah, you said that, yeah.
00:29:39 - I said that last day.
00:29:39 - Cashless society.
00:29:41 So when they come now,
00:29:42 let it take the little radio you have
00:29:43 and the little TV and thing and that's all right.
00:29:45 - Yeah, no cash.
00:29:46 - No cash.
00:29:48 And because they too, they will want cash.
00:29:50 Because it's easier to spend the cash than to try to sell.
00:29:53 I don't think I write about seeing this enough.
00:29:55 - No, sir.
00:29:56 - Because I know when I say it wasn't,
00:29:57 you think it would be harder to sell a TV,
00:29:59 but people even from South and coming up,
00:30:01 you know, the back so, and the back so,
00:30:02 and all in front of them,
00:30:03 say the back of the river,
00:30:04 it's about television, sir.
00:30:06 Are they serious, mate?
00:30:07 - Yeah.
00:30:08 - And then when they come into the police and say,
00:30:09 the police ain't doing nothing.
00:30:10 The police ain't doing nothing.
00:30:12 You don't find sometimes Mr. Hopkinson,
00:30:14 that we behave like a society that is dunce from the front.
00:30:18 Because how you could be so
00:30:22 dunce,
00:30:26 to think that a man will not sell you
00:30:30 a 60 inch TV for $5,000.
00:30:33 - Well, dunce may not be the word.
00:30:35 Dunce may not be the word.
00:30:36 Naive may be the word.
00:30:38 - At this stage?
00:30:39 - Yeah.
00:30:40 - I understand that.
00:30:40 - And thinking that they are getting a deal
00:30:43 and trusting people.
00:30:45 So I think those are the flaws.
00:30:46 I wouldn't say dunce.
00:30:47 - But a 60 inch TV for 5,000 is that what you're saying?
00:30:52 - That's a great deal.
00:30:53 - Is that what?
00:30:54 - I'm not tempted,
00:30:55 but that's a great deal for some people.
00:30:57 - And where would I test it to make sure it's working?
00:31:00 Where would I plug it for Sir Hopkinson?
00:31:01 - Up at the tanks.
00:31:02 Up at the tanks.
00:31:03 - Where?
00:31:04 - The tanks.
00:31:05 - Okay.
00:31:06 I would like to know.
00:31:07 So you come to sell me a TV.
00:31:09 I want to see if it's working.
00:31:09 I'll tell you.
00:31:10 I'll tell you.
00:31:11 - Yeah, tell you it's solar.
00:31:13 - Oh, it's solar.
00:31:13 Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you it's solar.
00:31:14 And they will believe that, you know.
00:31:16 It's solar with a cord.
00:31:18 Anyhow, where are we?
00:31:21 - We're coming back.
00:31:22 Let's go to our break.
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00:33:52 - So you have big plans for the year, eh?
00:34:00 A trip in July, birthday in November,
00:34:03 and fete after fete this carnival.
00:34:06 But you know what has stopped plans?
00:34:09 A $22,500 fine.
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00:34:35 - So welcome back everybody.
00:34:45 All right, so we are going to Diamond Village.
00:34:48 We have a video that we think that you should see here.
00:34:52 Yeah.
00:34:53 When it had COVID, a man had on mask.
00:35:00 He went in the vehicle, kind of comment,
00:35:01 "Oh, they try to control the population."
00:35:04 You know, all kind of statement they make.
00:35:06 What kind of thing they say, Mr. Hopkinson?
00:35:08 No, they put it on to do crime and everybody's okay.
00:35:13 Don't come in my business with any hat on.
00:35:15 I'm not accepting that.
00:35:17 You see?
00:35:20 If you come into my business with a hat on,
00:35:21 I don't want your money.
00:35:23 You see?
00:35:25 I like the bank, I never know.
00:35:26 Take off your hat.
00:35:27 I don't want your money.
00:35:31 All right?
00:35:32 And then take a look at what just happened here.
00:35:35 - Who are these technicians?
00:35:37 I see that they're moving equipment.
00:35:38 - Yeah, they come with the technician looking weird now.
00:35:40 Like they feel people stupid.
00:35:42 And they're going in the slot machine
00:35:45 and removing the box that's supposed
00:35:48 to have the finances in it.
00:35:50 (silence)
00:35:52 And the man in the back there,
00:35:58 he look like he doesn't even understand.
00:35:59 You see, that's why they don't drink alcohol.
00:36:02 The man in the back seems to just walk past everybody
00:36:04 like, "Hey, hey, hey, fixin' the machine."
00:36:07 Like a fixin', like a fixin' the machine.
00:36:11 What do you mean?
00:36:12 The fixin' the machine.
00:36:13 (laughing)
00:36:14 - No, he's trying to get away.
00:36:16 That's what he's trying to do, trying to get away.
00:36:18 - Yeah, you think so?
00:36:19 - Yeah, that's what he's trying to do.
00:36:20 - And he walk past so simply?
00:36:21 - Yeah, and quietly.
00:36:23 - Yeah, he walk past like, "Oh, no."
00:36:24 - That's not his business.
00:36:25 That's not my business.
00:36:26 - "I'm just fixin' the machine, I'm here."
00:36:29 They're taking it home to fix it.
00:36:30 - Yeah, fellas, go ahead, go ahead.
00:36:32 I'm not seeing anything here.
00:36:33 (laughing)
00:36:35 - Go ahead, go ahead.
00:36:35 I don't see anything here.
00:36:37 And then he came back, you know?
00:36:38 He went back from home.
00:36:39 And the man had to call him and say,
00:36:40 "No, let me go, let me go, let me go."
00:36:41 If a man gives me a wagon free.
00:36:46 - I don't want to.
00:36:46 - I tell him I want a bike, you know?
00:36:47 - A bicycle?
00:36:49 - If I had one of them, I'd sell it for $5.
00:36:52 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'd have seen it be the new thing,
00:36:53 but oh my word.
00:36:54 - But Alexander, we have spoken about these slot machines.
00:36:58 - Yeah.
00:36:59 - And we have seen in many cases
00:37:03 where these slot machines are bad news for business.
00:37:08 - Yeah.
00:37:09 - Because the criminal element--
00:37:10 - It encourages everything.
00:37:10 - Yeah, the criminal element is interested,
00:37:13 very much interested in this.
00:37:14 - They love it.
00:37:15 - Yeah.
00:37:17 You realize they try to close the shop,
00:37:18 oh, I'm not going to see the shop.
00:37:19 All the things are going to fall back out.
00:37:21 - We have seen over and over and over and over and over
00:37:24 where business establishments have been wronged
00:37:26 because they have had slot machines.
00:37:28 - Yaki, go up to this video, let me show you something.
00:37:31 Marlon, look how much time was spent at this establishment.
00:37:35 - Yeah.
00:37:36 - That's what I'm telling you.
00:37:37 When you see something, you say something.
00:37:39 A timely call, a timely response.
00:37:43 And there were persons there who would have observed
00:37:45 what was happening here for sure.
00:37:47 There are cameras, and that's why I'm saying technology,
00:37:52 and while we're here on this topic,
00:37:53 let me continue showing it.
00:37:55 Technology must assist law enforcement.
00:38:00 If I had my way, and I would say this every day,
00:38:03 if I had my way, I would hire a number of persons
00:38:07 in different divisions in Toronto Bay Gho,
00:38:10 all 10 divisions in Toronto Bay Gho,
00:38:13 set up the operation room where you see every single cameras
00:38:18 in and around that division,
00:38:21 so you will know what is happening here and now.
00:38:23 You want a here and now situation.
00:38:25 And yesterday the caller said that there's another agency
00:38:29 that is really treating with us, which is true.
00:38:32 Now, I don't know if that agency has the capacity at the time
00:38:37 to respond to something here and now.
00:38:40 And that could be an issue.
00:38:43 I would like to put cameras in all the areas,
00:38:48 especially intersections,
00:38:51 so we can monitor persons journey to and from crime.
00:38:57 The lighting system in your area,
00:39:03 you must complain with the relevant authorities
00:39:06 to have your lighting system up and working.
00:39:11 Mr. Hopkins, go on any days when you say,
00:39:14 well, you know, two years now this light not working,
00:39:19 make it happen.
00:39:21 And you can do that by even involving law enforcement,
00:39:28 because we want you to be able to,
00:39:31 we want to be able to adjust all these little issues
00:39:35 that you're having in order to assist us
00:39:37 with respect to crime.
00:39:39 Go to Marlon Hopkins, if you're finding it taking too long,
00:39:44 reach out to the media and discuss to the media
00:39:48 why this is happening and why this is not happening.
00:39:50 Yesterday, there was a shooting in Degal Martin,
00:39:53 yeah, I think yesterday, in Degal Martin.
00:39:56 And the men emerged from an abandoned home.
00:39:58 And this is another issue in your neighborhood.
00:40:02 There are persons who own homes or houses
00:40:05 who land in the neighborhood, nobody cut in the bush.
00:40:08 Huh?
00:40:09 There's a structure there,
00:40:11 the criminals are just sneaking in
00:40:13 and sneaking out when it's time to commit crime
00:40:15 and all of that.
00:40:16 Address that, get the owner of the place,
00:40:18 get the Ministry of Health involved,
00:40:19 get the-- - Corporation.
00:40:21 - The corporation involved and all of that
00:40:24 in order to treat with these things.
00:40:25 - Get your MP who you haven't seen in five years.
00:40:28 Go visit him or her.
00:40:30 - Good evening, caller.
00:40:31 - You have a call?
00:40:32 - Yes. - Good evening, caller.
00:40:34 - Hi, good afternoon.
00:40:36 - Caller, go ahead, you're live on air.
00:40:38 - Hi, good afternoon, guys.
00:40:39 I'm Mr. Adana.
00:40:40 I wanted to find out the situation.
00:40:43 It's a place a few weeks ago,
00:40:45 I was on bailiff's comment
00:40:47 at a property to steal some stuff.
00:40:49 Now, he's a little kid.
00:40:51 And they wanted to steal a vehicle,
00:40:56 probably a 70 vehicle or a group.
00:40:57 - All right, so wait, wait.
00:41:00 You're going to have to slow down
00:41:02 and speak up a little bit.
00:41:03 - Yeah, move the phone a little away from your mouth.
00:41:05 - Yeah, because-- - I'm trying to talk properly.
00:41:06 - Yes, you are.
00:41:07 So please repeat, please repeat.
00:41:09 - You hear me better now?
00:41:11 - Go ahead.
00:41:12 - All right, good.
00:41:13 Yeah, so the situation was on bailiff.
00:41:16 We came to the property,
00:41:17 so after an hour, I was standing there.
00:41:21 I went to places that my vehicle was parked on the compound.
00:41:25 My vehicle was in the owner's name.
00:41:27 And he wanted to seize my vehicle
00:41:29 because it was on the compound.
00:41:31 So I don't know how legal was that.
00:41:34 I had to call police and stuff to get access to them
00:41:38 to come and stop that financial harm that was going through.
00:41:41 - All right, well, I got him something here.
00:41:44 There was some repossessing taking place.
00:41:47 - Right. - Am I right?
00:41:48 - Yes.
00:41:48 - Not really repossessing.
00:41:49 They came to act on our, I was outstanding rent.
00:41:52 - Yes.
00:41:53 - So they came, they were, you know, outstanding rent
00:41:55 because of accessibility.
00:41:57 They seized whatever the person had access to, right?
00:42:00 - Right.
00:42:01 - But the problem was that my vehicle was in the yard
00:42:04 of the person that is my vehicle to move.
00:42:07 They wanted to seize my vehicle.
00:42:09 - Oh no, no, no.
00:42:10 Understand what you're saying?
00:42:11 - Mm-hmm.
00:42:12 - If your vehicle was not directly connected in any way
00:42:14 to the person who they came to treat with,
00:42:16 then they cannot interfere with your vehicle, you know?
00:42:18 If you were just an occupant of the yard.
00:42:21 - To be honest with you, brother, it wasn't,
00:42:23 it didn't go down that way.
00:42:23 It literally, record came, I had to,
00:42:26 it cost me $10,000 that they need to get together
00:42:30 to stop that transaction.
00:42:32 It was, it was.
00:42:33 They were held then to moving it.
00:42:35 They were able to seize the vehicle
00:42:36 because the vehicle was in the yard, you see?
00:42:38 They were entitled to seize it.
00:42:40 - Call and get an attorney and have that address.
00:42:43 I'm telling you.
00:42:44 Because I cannot go walk into a compound
00:42:47 looking for John Brown.
00:42:49 John Brown apartment I'm dealing with.
00:42:51 And John Brown, because I see a car in John Brown compound,
00:42:55 I inform an opinion that it's John Brown's car ticket.
00:42:58 No, no, it don't work like that, sir.
00:43:00 - No, no, no, but it's a chaos.
00:43:01 So I don't want to go to clarify that with you guys
00:43:04 because I'll try to have a few weeks now to get through.
00:43:06 - Get an attorney.
00:43:07 Get an attorney and have that address
00:43:08 because I don't even understand
00:43:10 why you have to pay money for your own thing.
00:43:13 - Yeah, I had to pay money just for them to leave it alone.
00:43:16 Just for the wheelchair.
00:43:17 - Now, if somebody made a Christmas meal
00:43:20 off of your situation, because that is,
00:43:21 in reality, that could never happen and should never happen.
00:43:26 - I called the station,
00:43:27 the station said they can't do anything about it.
00:43:29 - The station said--
00:43:29 - I don't know about the station name,
00:43:30 but the station said they can't do anything about it.
00:43:32 - All right, and call any vehicles in your name?
00:43:35 - Yeah, yeah, it's my name.
00:43:36 Like I said, it's a--
00:43:37 - And you are not the person--
00:43:39 - He came for, but because the vehicle's in the yard.
00:43:41 - You see, you see?
00:43:42 - Right, they wanted to seize the vehicle.
00:43:45 - How much persons live on that compound, sir?
00:43:47 - About four or five.
00:43:50 - You understand what I'm saying?
00:43:51 So call, so they just come and take your,
00:43:53 call out, go and get an attorney and have that address.
00:43:55 That is craziness.
00:43:57 - All right, thank you very much, sir.
00:43:59 - You understand what I'm saying?
00:44:00 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:44:01 - Well, you see, I don't know, you know?
00:44:03 They need to address that, you know,
00:44:04 because at that stage, I come outside
00:44:06 and they try to take my car and I tell you,
00:44:07 I say, "Sir, I am not connected
00:44:09 "with those persons there, you know?"
00:44:11 And you--
00:44:12 - Leave my Cortina, you know?
00:44:13 Mr. Leave my Cortina, you know?
00:44:15 - They should say, "Take him in the car."
00:44:16 At that stage, I'm of the opinion
00:44:17 that you're looking to steal my car.
00:44:19 So I might address it along a particular line,
00:44:21 and you know how sometimes things get addressed.
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00:46:04 - This is Mary.
00:46:05 Mary has bills to pay and takes a chance
00:46:09 parking in front of the building at the no parking sign.
00:46:12 Mary returns to her car and this is what happens.
00:46:17 (phone rings)
00:46:24 Mary decides to call when she's five minutes away
00:46:27 to let her daughter know that she is close by.
00:46:30 But Mary forgot one thing.
00:46:32 After two tickets, Mary just isn't paying attention
00:46:43 to her speed.
00:46:44 - You still have to explain to me
00:46:46 that that's the speed limit 15 kilometers.
00:46:48 You have to chase up here 15 years to go and test.
00:46:51 - I'm not going to show it to other people.
00:46:52 Look at other people passing.
00:46:53 You haven't seen them.
00:46:54 You haven't seen me, right?
00:46:56 Huh?
00:46:56 You two rude.
00:46:57 Get away, get away, get away.
00:46:59 - Don't be like Mary.
00:47:01 Obey the laws of the road.
00:47:03 A message from the TTPS.
00:47:05 (upbeat music)
00:47:08 (upbeat music)
00:47:11 - Most important part of the speech?
00:47:24 - What?
00:47:24 - Huh?
00:47:25 - What?
00:47:26 - I am for the people.
00:47:27 With the people.
00:47:30 - Ah, we have heard that over and over and over.
00:47:32 Over and over and over.
00:47:33 Come with something new.
00:47:34 - All right, okay.
00:47:35 Hold on.
00:47:36 - And they have all disappointed us.
00:47:37 - Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:47:39 I am the people.
00:47:40 For the people, with the people.
00:47:44 I will defend the people.
00:47:45 Hold on.
00:47:46 - That sounds a little bit.
00:47:47 - Well, all right, all right.
00:47:48 - But the proof is in the pudding.
00:47:49 - Exactly.
00:47:50 - The proof is in the pudding.
00:47:50 - Jackie, write it down.
00:47:51 - You need a stenographer.
00:47:54 Jackie, write that down.
00:47:56 - Jackie, the CPM, you know.
00:47:58 - Wow.
00:48:00 Get a job, Gil.
00:48:01 - The CPM.
00:48:03 - Something I was going to say, you know,
00:48:05 and you're talking, you're talking,
00:48:06 you're talking so much, I can't remember what we are doing.
00:48:09 What are we going to do now?
00:48:10 - Wait, I know.
00:48:11 - You have something.
00:48:12 - I thought this minute could be.
00:48:13 - Of course, you had something.
00:48:15 Not really that, something else.
00:48:18 All right, we are taking your calls.
00:48:20 - I thought it's 10 to 7.
00:48:21 - You're calling us on 623-1711.
00:48:23 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997 again.
00:48:28 The numbers are 623-1711.
00:48:30 The extensions are 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.
00:48:36 - Over the years, we have seen where a number of agency,
00:48:41 police agencies have removed the policing element
00:48:46 from areas like, say for instance,
00:48:48 their office and put civilian staff,
00:48:51 and with an attempt to have more police on the Asian streets.
00:48:56 I think the time has come for us to even revisit
00:48:58 some of these things where we can bring out
00:49:01 police officers in large numbers,
00:49:03 because we want to really saturate the streets
00:49:07 with police officers until we have
00:49:11 that technological advantage
00:49:14 that we are looking for now more than ever.
00:49:16 I was looking at policing in different parts of the world,
00:49:20 even today, and Marlon, they have some systems there
00:49:23 that is incredible, meaning that they are constantly
00:49:27 monitoring what is happening in the city.
00:49:30 There are no section, no part of the city
00:49:33 that should not be monitored,
00:49:35 inclusive of San Fernando, all the boroughs and cities,
00:49:38 inclusive of those, there are no part of the city
00:49:41 where the borough should not be monitored
00:49:44 on a 24-hour basis.
00:49:46 - Yeah.
00:49:47 Let's take a call. - Good evening.
00:49:48 Good evening, caller.
00:49:49 - Yes, hi, pleasant to meet.
00:49:51 - Yes, good evening.
00:49:52 - Complimentary treatment to both of you.
00:49:54 - To you too.
00:49:56 - All right, this is the person that called,
00:49:57 Mrs. Noah, concerning the fire at St. Margaret.
00:50:01 - Fire at St. Margaret.
00:50:02 - Yeah.
00:50:03 - Yeah, my home that was destroyed.
00:50:05 - Yeah. - Yeah.
00:50:05 - Yeah, and I haven't got a feedback, so.
00:50:09 - Right. - And they haven't called me.
00:50:11 - Well, listen.
00:50:12 - This is St. Margaret, Southside.
00:50:14 - Right, I think you missed a call.
00:50:17 - Okay, well, I wasn't feeling so well.
00:50:20 - I know that, because you missed a call.
00:50:23 I was hoping that you'd call.
00:50:24 The police officers from the St. Margaret side
00:50:27 tried to reach you.
00:50:28 With respect to that situation.
00:50:30 So I'm hoping that something will turn out,
00:50:32 and I'm hoping that you give us a feedback too,
00:50:34 as soon as possible.
00:50:36 Because they are investigating your matter.
00:50:38 There were some issues, but however,
00:50:40 those issues have been rectified by the officers, yeah?
00:50:44 - Okay, so thank you.
00:50:45 - All right, thank you very much.
00:50:46 - I hope best to both of you again.
00:50:48 - To you too. - I hope you feel well soon too.
00:50:51 - Yeah. - All right.
00:50:52 - All right, so the lines are free, yeah?
00:50:54 - So let us, while we're talking there, Ms. Hopkins,
00:50:56 let us go further into this thing.
00:50:59 And then the laws in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:51:01 All in I, we have seen, this is my opinion,
00:51:05 no, this is just my opinion,
00:51:06 and I want you to understand that.
00:51:08 And sometimes relating with Corporal Alley,
00:51:11 we see laws in Trinidad and Tobago that,
00:51:13 to me, they are outdated.
00:51:16 They are outdated.
00:51:18 The criminal element has found new ways
00:51:20 to do things differently.
00:51:22 I know the offenses that we have in the book
00:51:25 sometimes doesn't even reach a threshold
00:51:27 in terms of the type of offenses that are being committed,
00:51:30 how these persons are doing it.
00:51:31 They are finding new ways to do these things,
00:51:33 and we are still looking for certain things
00:51:37 manually and all of that,
00:51:38 when technology has taken over the crime world.
00:51:41 So that's something we need to look at.
00:51:43 - You see, we have a way in Trinidad and Tobago,
00:51:48 we always looking to see what is happening abroad.
00:51:52 And we go there, sometimes we send persons
00:51:54 on training exercises.
00:51:57 - Where? - And we send them
00:51:58 to look at the equipment.
00:51:59 And they're so impressed.
00:52:01 And when they come back home, nothing happens.
00:52:04 Because again, there is no will to implement
00:52:08 those types of equipment and technology
00:52:11 in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:52:12 Imagine in 2023, we still talking about technology,
00:52:16 are we wanting technology?
00:52:19 Places like the US and the UK and all over the world,
00:52:22 they have taught us how to do it.
00:52:24 Why are we today still speaking about technology?
00:52:27 There was a very interesting interview I did this morning
00:52:31 with a professor, and that gentleman,
00:52:33 he was at the University of the Westernies many years ago.
00:52:37 And they compiled a document speaking about the use
00:52:42 of automobiles, right?
00:52:45 By criminals and how they have studied that.
00:52:50 And they have even made recommendations
00:52:53 as to what they should be doing with license plates.
00:52:56 So there is constant monitoring of vehicles
00:52:59 in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:53:01 And what equipment needs to be put in all parts
00:53:06 of Trinidad and Tobago to have this constant monitoring.
00:53:09 Today, so many years later, today we are still,
00:53:13 well, there's nothing like that in Trinidad.
00:53:15 - You know who feels the burden?
00:53:17 You know who feels the brunt of that conversation
00:53:19 with Hopkinson?
00:53:20 Whenever things go wrong, the police.
00:53:22 - Yeah, let's take a call.
00:53:23 Good evening, caller.
00:53:25 Caller, good evening.
00:53:27 Caller, you there?
00:53:29 - Hi, good evening.
00:53:30 - Yes, good evening.
00:53:32 - Okay, I'm just calling to make a couple of statements.
00:53:36 But I'm not seen alive, but we were probably
00:53:38 at the vehicle's telecast, right?
00:53:40 - We hear you.
00:53:43 - Hello?
00:53:44 - Caller, go ahead.
00:53:45 - We hear you.
00:53:46 - Okay, I just wanna make a couple of statements.
00:53:49 That in that I've been robbed a couple of times.
00:53:52 - Uh-huh.
00:53:53 - And actually, one time I went to court,
00:53:56 actually, three times I've been robbed,
00:53:58 one time I went to court, I was asked by the prosecutor
00:54:03 to drop the charges because he didn't get investigated.
00:54:08 - Because what?
00:54:13 - Because he didn't get to drop the warrant
00:54:16 to make an appeal in court.
00:54:18 - That's all, that's all, that's all I'm confused here.
00:54:22 - The...
00:54:23 - The appeal, is that right?
00:54:25 - Yeah, the prosecutor.
00:54:26 - What I'm really concerned at this time is,
00:54:29 is that, what do we do?
00:54:35 What do we do in order to put the whole families on,
00:54:39 what, right chop them to life,
00:54:42 or right chop them off, or what are you?
00:54:45 - Caller, I would never tell you what to do,
00:54:47 but what I can tell you is this.
00:54:49 This is your life.
00:54:51 This is your life here, and you have to defend your life
00:54:54 by any lawful means necessary.
00:54:56 I have always challenged the thought,
00:54:59 standing here as a citizen of this country,
00:55:03 with the type of-
00:55:04 - This is my couple, this is my couple.
00:55:06 - Yeah, go ahead.
00:55:08 Say again.
00:55:08 - Yeah, I mean, so what I do?
00:55:11 - Defend your life, sir, and defend that of your family.
00:55:15 When you are being attacked by a person, yeah?
00:55:19 That's what you need to do.
00:55:21 - So, thank you very much, caller.
00:55:25 So this morning I was having a conversation
00:55:27 with Professor Dave Sarand too,
00:55:29 and I told Professor Dave Sarand this morning,
00:55:31 I said, "Professor, the amount of documents
00:55:34 "that you all would have done, prepared,
00:55:37 "and recommendations you would have made,
00:55:39 "and books, and all sorts of things."
00:55:41 I said, "Professor, I've been doing this for 10 years now,
00:55:44 "and I'm fed up, I'm tired, right?
00:55:48 "And it is not that we do not have the information,
00:55:52 "it is not that we don't have the studies done,
00:55:54 "it is not that recommendations and suggestions
00:55:58 "have not been made.
00:55:59 "But when these documents are compiled,
00:56:02 "what you're doing with it, they're gathering dust, right?
00:56:06 "And then you will come today and say,
00:56:08 "well, you know, yes, there's a situation here,
00:56:13 "but we don't know what to do,
00:56:14 "we launch an investigation."
00:56:16 People are tired, tired, we're tired
00:56:19 of hearing this foolish talk, you know?
00:56:21 And some of you all who like the foolish talk,
00:56:24 you all always want to sound so profound
00:56:27 when you're sounding damn dotish.
00:56:29 That is how you're sounding, foolish!
00:56:31 We need to go to our break?
00:56:32 - We need to go to our break.
00:56:33 - We're coming back.
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00:58:14 - Slavery, a terrible time in our history.
00:58:20 The kidnapping, buying and selling of people for profit,
00:58:24 the exploitation of another human being.
00:58:27 It still exists today.
00:58:28 It has a new name, human trafficking.
00:58:32 Anyone can be a victim.
00:58:34 There is forced labor, sexual exploitation,
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00:58:43 Human trafficking is a worldwide problem
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00:58:48 If you know of or suspect human trafficking activity,
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00:59:11 (upbeat music)
00:59:14 - You know what I have low tolerance for?
00:59:26 - What's that?
00:59:27 - You're telling someone it's a beautiful day
00:59:29 and you're telling someone that the sky is blue
00:59:33 and that someone is telling you,
00:59:34 "Well, it kinda..."
00:59:37 You see that kind of person?
00:59:39 I don't want them people around me at all.
00:59:42 So I would avoid them or remove myself
00:59:47 from within the environment
00:59:48 because I don't like at this age of the game
00:59:51 and me with my old self at this stage of the game,
00:59:54 you're coming to talk dothishness in front of me.
00:59:57 Don't do that.
00:59:58 Talk dothishness to everybody else.
01:00:01 But you see me, when you come to me,
01:00:02 let's get on the straight and narrow now
01:00:06 and let's talk what is reality
01:00:08 and what prevails, right?
01:00:11 Let's take a call.
01:00:11 Good evening, caller.
01:00:12 That's why I say to people when you come in.
01:00:15 - Good evening, Mayor.
01:00:17 - Good evening, caller.
01:00:18 - Good evening, Mayor and good evening, Superintendent.
01:00:22 - Yes.
01:00:22 - I just wanna share that.
01:00:26 Superintendent, what are the laws pertaining
01:00:29 to loitering in Trinidad and Tobago?
01:00:32 Because it seems as though I know the culture,
01:00:35 it's a line and hangout and whatever.
01:00:37 But it seems like when you go to these
01:00:39 financial institutions, there seem to be people
01:00:42 aimlessly hanging around the banks
01:00:45 and these institutions, I can't determine
01:00:48 what they're doing.
01:00:50 But the loitering in Trinidad and Tobago
01:00:52 seems to be, if you have people hanging around,
01:00:56 learning your pattern, see what you're doing
01:00:58 when you come, when you go, I mean,
01:01:01 you can't stop the public from observing.
01:01:02 Let's get that, I mean, right off the bat.
01:01:05 But it seems like what are the loitering laws
01:01:07 in Trinidad and Tobago?
01:01:08 Because you were just saying that you're gonna have
01:01:10 to use what you have to do what you gotta do.
01:01:13 And I don't know if corporate I can answer
01:01:15 that question or whatever, but it seems like,
01:01:18 what do you as cops are able to do
01:01:21 pertaining to loitering, especially when it comes to like,
01:01:25 could you go hang out in front of a police precinct?
01:01:28 Could you go hang out in front of a,
01:01:29 like you got a department?
01:01:33 I mean, do guys hang out in front of your department,
01:01:35 your police precinct or whatever?
01:01:37 Because the thing about it is,
01:01:38 do they look and see when Alexander's coming,
01:01:40 when he's going, when corporate or whatever
01:01:42 is coming and going?
01:01:43 I mean, you can't stop people from observing.
01:01:46 But what I'm saying is that, can people just aimlessly
01:01:48 just hang around the corners?
01:01:50 And that seems to be the problem.
01:01:52 Until you implement the changes that are required,
01:01:54 culturally, geographically, whatever's pertaining
01:01:57 to your district, then nothing is gonna change.
01:02:00 And then you just have to use what you have.
01:02:03 And again, people are gonna criticize the police
01:02:05 for what they didn't do, or like Marlon just said earlier on,
01:02:09 until they stop using the police as a plaster for everything,
01:02:13 because the police is law enforcement.
01:02:15 They don't create laws, they enforce laws.
01:02:18 So at the end of the day,
01:02:19 they need to differentiate basically,
01:02:22 or put boundaries as to what the police does,
01:02:24 what the politicians does, and so forth.
01:02:28 So I'm just thinking like, is it,
01:02:30 I know it's a culture of just chilling and whatever,
01:02:32 but what are the law-enforcing laws, Alice and Orfea?
01:02:36 - Carla, listen, your contribution is dangerous.
01:02:39 Let me tell you how dangerous your contribution is.
01:02:42 It's dangerous because it is dangerously the truth.
01:02:45 That is what it is.
01:02:46 Because, Carla, let me tell Marlon this.
01:02:49 And Marlon has been saying this over and over.
01:02:52 Every time we get new duties to perform
01:02:55 outside of law enforcement, it changes the game, you know?
01:03:00 Let us face reality.
01:03:01 Now we do it because of our love for our job,
01:03:04 and we've seen what is happening in the future
01:03:07 with respect to the children.
01:03:08 But that function that we have taken on
01:03:10 in that school situation, that is not ours, you know?
01:03:13 That is not ours.
01:03:16 But because we love what we do,
01:03:18 and because we know that nobody else is doing it,
01:03:20 and everybody else is running away,
01:03:22 it is placed on our shoulders.
01:03:24 And because we have become so accepted,
01:03:29 we accept everything, they continue to give us duties
01:03:33 outside of our remit.
01:03:35 That is what it is.
01:03:36 Ever so often you see law enforcement doing something,
01:03:39 and you know, how come law enforcement is involved in that?
01:03:41 'Cause everybody else is running.
01:03:43 Just imagine you now have to parent somebody else's child.
01:03:47 - It has become the easiest--
01:03:50 - Way out.
01:03:51 - Way out.
01:03:51 - That is what it is.
01:03:52 - You have put it well.
01:03:54 It's the easiest way out.
01:03:56 So, school violence?
01:03:59 Well, we're going to ask the police to do more patrols.
01:04:02 So-and-so is happening here?
01:04:05 Well, we're going to ask the police.
01:04:06 That has, that cannot be, that is not the panacea
01:04:11 to everything in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:04:13 A lady is having a child, well, send the police.
01:04:15 - Send the police.
01:04:16 - Right?
01:04:17 - Some people before they call.
01:04:18 - The pastor's sermon is not good?
01:04:20 Send Alexander.
01:04:21 - Yeah, I can speak to that.
01:04:23 It cannot be, it cannot be to all right-thinking persons.
01:04:28 I don't know if you agree with me,
01:04:29 but that cannot be the panacea to crime in Trinidad
01:04:34 and Tobago.
01:04:35 - Then we probably will have to remove--
01:04:35 - There are wider issues.
01:04:36 - We'll have to remove that word, law enforcement,
01:04:39 because some of the things that we do
01:04:43 have nothing at all to do with law enforcement.
01:04:47 - Because what you're doing, what you're doing,
01:04:50 you have a frustrated, low morale,
01:04:55 tired bunch of people in the police service.
01:05:00 Everything you're giving them to do,
01:05:03 and when they do their job,
01:05:05 other agencies that are supposed to complement
01:05:09 the work of the police, they are not doing it.
01:05:12 So therefore, the police's work is going for zero.
01:05:15 I agree with Alexander, maybe the first time,
01:05:20 but everyone has a role to play,
01:05:22 and we just can't pretend that we do not have
01:05:27 a responsibility, and I am going to stay in my corner
01:05:31 because my independence needs to be protected.
01:05:34 - Look at this, look at this, Mr. Hopkinson.
01:05:35 Let me just say this.
01:05:36 - You have a call, right?
01:05:37 - Let me just say this, just one.
01:05:38 Look at this.
01:05:39 Mr. Hopkinson, let's go back to the school.
01:05:41 So there are some issues at the school level.
01:05:43 There are persons who are guidance counselors
01:05:45 and all of these things at the school level, that's all.
01:05:48 But when the police come, you know what to do.
01:05:50 They'll still get on the table.
01:05:51 We have to go in and see if we can mount this thing,
01:05:53 and then they just have to take a back seat.
01:05:55 So then I was asking this question then.
01:05:58 What is their role and function sometimes?
01:06:01 What is your role and function?
01:06:03 Why are you giving police everything?
01:06:04 Good evening, caller.
01:06:05 - Caller, good evening.
01:06:06 - And then when there's no police on the streets,
01:06:09 all you have to say.
01:06:10 - Caller, you there?
01:06:11 - I'm here, I'm here, I'm here.
01:06:13 - Yes, go ahead, caller.
01:06:14 - I just said good evening,
01:06:17 happy and holy holidays to my two younger brothers
01:06:20 and the Underteep and all its supporters.
01:06:24 I want to address one thing this evening.
01:06:27 - Go ahead.
01:06:31 - This morning, for the morning edition of the Underteep,
01:06:34 a gentleman spoke, I think it was Mr. Joseph,
01:06:37 it was his name.
01:06:38 - Right, right, the professor.
01:06:40 - The professor.
01:06:41 He said, "Ivander, why don't you take a big stick
01:06:46 and beat some of those ideas into the executive,
01:06:50 your executive, and also the national security ministry."
01:06:55 Not minister, ministry.
01:06:57 Because the idea that guy came up with this morning,
01:07:00 man, it's fantastic.
01:07:01 - It was brilliant.
01:07:02 - That was gifted, very big.
01:07:03 Thank you, man.
01:07:06 - Yes, sir.
01:07:07 Thank you very much.
01:07:07 - Well, let me answer this for you.
01:07:10 I speak here 99% of the times I would have communicated
01:07:14 with my commissioner of police.
01:07:15 So when I speak here at times
01:07:17 and you hear certain initiatives is really coming,
01:07:20 it's an extension of my commissioner of police
01:07:23 and her initiative.
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01:07:26 whatever happens to other agencies,
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01:09:12 What you can see from this image
01:09:14 is a man lying in a pool of blood in his living room.
01:09:17 He was shot dead a short while ago
01:09:20 as two bandits tried to rob him and his family.
01:09:24 What you can't hear is his wife crying inconsolably.
01:09:27 What you don't know is that his four-year-old daughter
01:09:31 is standing looking at her father,
01:09:33 confused, begging him to wake up.
01:09:35 Can you imagine what this wife and child are going through
01:09:38 and what they will have to go through?
01:09:40 They try to process what has happened.
01:09:42 How can we begin to help?
01:09:45 We can start right here
01:09:46 at the Victim and Witness Support Unit.
01:09:48 From investigation to counseling,
01:09:51 to helping families find justice,
01:09:53 to helping families find peace,
01:09:56 this unit gives victims and witnesses hope to cope.
01:10:01 We are the Victim and Witness Support Unit,
01:10:04 bridging the service gap between the victims,
01:10:06 witnesses, and the police.
01:10:09 (upbeat music)
01:10:12 (upbeat music)
01:10:18 - Nice music, nice music.
01:10:31 Thank you, Jackie.
01:10:32 Let's take a call.
01:10:33 Good evening, caller.
01:10:34 - I think she's here, do you know?
01:10:36 - Caller, good evening.
01:10:37 - Good evening.
01:10:38 (laughing)
01:10:39 - Good evening, sir. - My name is Kube.
01:10:40 - Yes, how are you going?
01:10:41 - I'm good, I'm good, boy, I'm good.
01:10:44 - How is your Christmas treating you?
01:10:46 - Good, man, cold, but good.
01:10:48 - You near or you're far?
01:10:50 - He's far.
01:10:51 - You're far? - I'm far right now.
01:10:52 Coming near soon.
01:10:53 - All right, is it cold out there?
01:10:55 - I know, it's not even the heat.
01:10:58 (laughing)
01:11:01 - Go ahead, sir.
01:11:01 - I'm here to help with the gang legislation
01:11:04 I was talking about a few weeks ago.
01:11:05 We were supposed to get together
01:11:07 to do some of the gang legislation.
01:11:09 What happened to that?
01:11:10 - Everything is dead.
01:11:11 We have a gang legislation in Trinidad and Tobago
01:11:13 that has been in circulation now for a while.
01:11:17 Seems to be having some issues ever so often.
01:11:20 Every time we go before the court,
01:11:21 but it is what it is.
01:11:23 I guess we learn from our mistakes
01:11:24 and only improve on it as time go by.
01:11:27 - Oh boy, it should be bright.
01:11:29 And this is where the computer's always done
01:11:33 with its CLC.
01:11:36 Wasn't it earlier in the year the system was down?
01:11:38 - Yeah.
01:11:39 - And they revamped it?
01:11:40 - All right.
01:11:40 - How long it stayed up for?
01:11:42 - All right, what happened right now with the CLC
01:11:44 is that it is back up and running.
01:11:45 So they are trying to see how much
01:11:48 persons they can provide with the certificate
01:11:50 of good character over the next coming month.
01:11:54 Because there's a number of outstanding ones.
01:11:56 Because the system would have gone down for a short time
01:11:59 and it's back up and running again.
01:12:01 That's the information from the senior superintendent
01:12:03 of the criminal investigation department.
01:12:06 - Yeah.
01:12:08 - What was the average age of your IT staff?
01:12:10 Your IT staff, man.
01:12:11 What's the average age, man?
01:12:12 - The average age?
01:12:13 - Okay, so this is your people game, you know?
01:12:16 - Oh, for the IT staff?
01:12:17 - Yeah, because every couple months
01:12:20 something is broken in police service, right?
01:12:23 Some technical something that lasts a month.
01:12:26 It come up for two weeks, it go over three months.
01:12:29 You know?
01:12:30 - Well, my understanding--
01:12:31 - I'm waiting for my manager to get to the point where,
01:12:31 I don't know the ideas, consequences.
01:12:35 There must be consequences.
01:12:36 - Accountability.
01:12:37 - You can't be telling people every day,
01:12:39 hold on, hold on.
01:12:40 They're getting tired, man.
01:12:42 - You're telling me?
01:12:43 - The laws need to be changed.
01:12:44 The laws need to be changed.
01:12:45 That's the biggest problem to help the police.
01:12:48 The laws.
01:12:49 - Constitutional reform requires--
01:12:50 - Whatever, whatever.
01:12:51 - You too, sir, have a good Christmas.
01:12:53 - And call her, thank you, every time you call.
01:12:54 - YouTuber.
01:12:55 - Yeah.
01:12:56 - Foreign.
01:12:57 - You need to get her a song.
01:12:58 - What do you want?
01:12:59 What do you want?
01:12:59 What do you want?
01:13:01 - Holy pastel coming.
01:13:03 - Oh gosh.
01:13:04 - Not good, but listen.
01:13:05 - Not good, not good.
01:13:06 - I made some goat and some duck mix up in the pastel.
01:13:11 It tastes good.
01:13:12 (laughing)
01:13:13 It's a GDP.
01:13:14 (laughing)
01:13:14 A goat and duck pastel.
01:13:16 (laughing)
01:13:17 A GDP.
01:13:18 (laughing)
01:13:18 - All right.
01:13:19 (phone ringing)
01:13:20 Take care.
01:13:21 Something else, go ahead and see him.
01:13:22 - He's always calling.
01:13:23 He's a happy guy, though.
01:13:25 - Yeah, he's--
01:13:25 - Very concerned, but I think of a very happy guy.
01:13:28 I like that.
01:13:29 - Yeah.
01:13:29 - We appreciate that.
01:13:30 - Something I was going to say.
01:13:31 - Let me say this to you.
01:13:32 You know, Marlon, over the years,
01:13:34 I've been around for a while in this establishment
01:13:36 and I have seen persons with good ideas.
01:13:39 And the only thing you see with those good ideas
01:13:42 is one day that's published about those good ideas
01:13:45 in the newspaper of some kind.
01:13:47 But we have, in Trinidad and Tobago,
01:13:49 we have some of the biggest egos we have ever seen.
01:13:51 - You're telling me?
01:13:52 - These egos are so big sometimes it's way beyond us.
01:13:55 - The politics has been a blight.
01:13:57 The politics has been a blight.
01:13:58 - Once you did not come up with it,
01:14:01 it cannot be placed here because it is not my idea.
01:14:04 And that is what is killing us.
01:14:07 The egos are too much.
01:14:08 - Let's take a call.
01:14:09 Good evening, caller.
01:14:10 - Good evening, caller.
01:14:11 - Good evening, gentlemen.
01:14:13 I'm Miss Jackie.
01:14:14 Compliments of the season to you all.
01:14:15 - To you too.
01:14:16 - It's been a long time.
01:14:18 - Yes.
01:14:19 - It's been a long time.
01:14:20 - I begin to think that I am effectively kept out,
01:14:23 but this evening I got in and I thank you so much for that.
01:14:27 - Mr. Alexander.
01:14:28 - Yes, ma'am.
01:14:29 - I have been observing a trend.
01:14:33 - Yes.
01:14:34 - In that, Marilyn was just talking about it,
01:14:38 that everything we ascribe blame
01:14:41 or we point fingers toward the TPS.
01:14:46 - Yeah.
01:14:47 - And to me, that is a travesty.
01:14:50 Because every person,
01:14:55 every citizen in this society,
01:14:58 in Trinidad and Tobago,
01:15:00 need to be responsible for himself or herself.
01:15:05 And my favorite point is,
01:15:08 our children are looking at us.
01:15:12 So when we see what we see happening,
01:15:14 we must first find out what happening at home.
01:15:18 - Yeah.
01:15:19 - Recently, someone was talking about the teachers
01:15:22 are not taking time to train the children.
01:15:25 I have a challenge with that.
01:15:28 - I do, yes.
01:15:29 - When I expected to enter schools,
01:15:32 trained already.
01:15:34 - Yep.
01:15:35 - Teachers, principal, school managers
01:15:38 are required to help mold, culture,
01:15:43 enhance what has already been planted.
01:15:46 - Absolutely.
01:15:47 - Yep.
01:15:47 - One.
01:15:48 Two, I have, while I speak in gluing terms to the TPS,
01:15:53 I have another concern and that is,
01:15:56 I am on the road today,
01:15:58 and a white Aqua registration number, PEA1104,
01:16:03 was driving recklessly and dangerously
01:16:09 in the vicinity of Lone Circular Mall.
01:16:11 And I tried dialing 999 and 911.
01:16:17 And five times I held on.
01:16:23 - Hmm.
01:16:24 - All circuits are busy.
01:16:25 This is the emergency.
01:16:28 And that confused me, because if it is an emergency,
01:16:32 how long do I have to wait to get an emergency addressed?
01:16:37 So something needs to be done with respect to that.
01:16:41 And I understand that those persons are not police officers.
01:16:45 So I strongly suggest some training.
01:16:49 Have a good evening, gentlemen,
01:16:51 and all the best for the new year.
01:16:52 - You too.
01:16:53 Compliments on the CCTV, man.
01:16:54 - Thank you very much, Mama.
01:16:55 It's always a pleasure talking to you.
01:16:56 - Yeah.
01:16:57 - And let me just say this, sir.
01:16:59 My recommendation for that 999 system is that,
01:17:03 you remember I told you the other day,
01:17:05 we have to have a number of persons on those boards.
01:17:10 No call should be unanswered in the 999 system.
01:17:15 - You're right.
01:17:16 - And according to Marlon,
01:17:16 if we have to go up to 50 persons or more, then so be.
01:17:19 With the increasing crime, we need that type of support.
01:17:22 You cannot have somebody who's about,
01:17:25 somebody's trying to enter your home
01:17:26 and they are staring down imminent death
01:17:29 and calling and you're getting,
01:17:31 please hold, please hold, please hold, hold, please hold.
01:17:35 And all the circuits are busy, please hold.
01:17:37 But then again, there are a number of persons
01:17:39 who would have contributed to that, ma'am.
01:17:41 Some of them calling for nonsensical things.
01:17:44 Take for instance, officer,
01:17:46 there's a goat in front of my yard
01:17:48 and all these things, there's a number of issue
01:17:50 and this one putting up things and hanging things online
01:17:53 and it's a crazy thing, ma'am.
01:17:56 So I understand that part,
01:17:57 but I'm thinking that the system is not enough.
01:18:00 It doesn't hold the capacity for the number of crimes
01:18:04 or the number of persons that is making calls.
01:18:07 If they see something, say something, emergency wise.
01:18:09 - I have told you all how to deal with those prime calls
01:18:12 or calls such as those.
01:18:14 Put down the phone.
01:18:15 This is not the line to be calling about,
01:18:19 you want someone to clean your drain.
01:18:21 Call the corporation, don't call 999.
01:18:25 But you are going to have to be strict with people
01:18:28 because you are going to have very serious situations
01:18:31 where people need help and they're not getting the help
01:18:34 because an officer and rightly so,
01:18:38 because I don't expect the officer to be rude
01:18:41 as I'm suggesting.
01:18:43 So they engaging in this talk,
01:18:46 but serious thing happening.
01:18:47 - Serious things are happening.
01:18:49 So we're looking at that same system there,
01:18:52 nothing less than about 50 officers
01:18:54 depending on what is happening in and around the country
01:18:57 at any one time.
01:18:59 We need those calls and we need to respond to those calls
01:19:03 because it's person's life on the line.
01:19:06 - Yeah, we must go to break.
01:19:08 We're coming back.
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