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00:02:41 Maybe you could afford to pay up to $22,500 in fines and lose your license permanently. No? Then don't drink and drive.
00:02:52 A message from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
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00:03:07 You know what you have, you don't know what you will get, you know.
00:03:11 A very special good afternoon Trinidad and Tobago, I'm Marlon Hopkins.
00:03:14 As always, welcome to another program of Beyond the Tape on TV6.
00:03:17 With me is the Senior Superintendent of the IATF. Sometimes he highlights as a Bishop of the TTPS Episcopal Church of God, Roger D. Alexander.
00:03:31 [Speaking in foreign language]
00:03:37 Alexander, come in.
00:03:38 I'm inside already.
00:03:40 [Laughter]
00:03:42 I'm not coming, what? Inside already. What's going on?
00:03:45 Well, we have been having some beautiful days in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:03:50 The weather has just been beautiful. Not too much dust, but the dust is there.
00:03:54 But, it's, well, as the Bette Office said a few days ago, the dry season has begun.
00:04:04 So, it's a good time to not be setting fires indiscriminately and doing what is right.
00:04:14 I suspect we are going to have to get some details soon about conserving water in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:04:21 Yeah, because from what I understand, this season is not going to be a very easy season.
00:04:26 Alright?
00:04:27 [Speaking in foreign language]
00:04:29 Yeah.
00:04:30 So, a very special good afternoon to our friends in the US and the UK and Canada.
00:04:34 All across the world, our brothers and sisters in the Caribbean, not forgetting you all in Grenada.
00:04:39 A very special good afternoon to all of you.
00:04:41 You know, Grenada, you have a special place in our hearts, you know. You know that?
00:04:45 Mm-hmm.
00:04:46 Yeah.
00:04:47 Yeah, some of us have no choice.
00:04:49 Literally, you know.
00:04:50 Literally.
00:04:51 Literally, you know, Grenada. You're in our hearts, you know. Always.
00:04:54 Some of us have acts to grind in.
00:04:57 Well, I don't know about that one, but go ahead.
00:04:59 I don't mean that acts of grinding on the subjects.
00:05:01 Yeah. Some of us understand the debarkation of trees.
00:05:05 Anyhow, here we go.
00:05:07 Look, you see you?
00:05:08 [Laughter]
00:05:09 What do you have for us?
00:05:10 Well, let me tell you this, sir.
00:05:12 Mr. Hopkins, first of all, this was a kind of weekend, you know.
00:05:17 Sometimes, just between the two angles, the two angles that we have been seeing now for the past how many years.
00:05:25 When last have we had a weekend without something?
00:05:30 If it's not RTAs on the nation's road, it's shootings, murders.
00:05:37 Yeah.
00:05:38 And that seems to be the order of the day.
00:05:41 However, Mr. Hopkins, I was looking at something both Friday and Saturday of this week.
00:05:49 And I was saying to myself, "Wow."
00:05:56 So many, and I mentioned it on Friday, so many police applicants trying to join the Trans-Nigerian Police Service.
00:06:07 In Marabella 4,200 one day.
00:06:13 And almost the same amount at the Polish Reading Academy.
00:06:20 And, you know, it shows me that we still have persons who want to join this noble profession.
00:06:29 And all we are hoping for is that those persons who have that intention come honestly with intention to serve.
00:06:42 Is that a difficult request?
00:06:44 I don't think so.
00:06:45 I don't think it is.
00:06:47 But I want to thank all young men who still, despite what is happening, what you're seeing, what has been said,
00:06:54 that you're still seeing this profession, Trans-Nigerian Police Service, as a noble profession.
00:07:01 Policing in a hole.
00:07:03 And at the end of it all, we wish you all the luck.
00:07:08 And for those who did not get through for one or more reasons, all is not lost.
00:07:13 You would have been told of your shortcoming, so you can go and fix it.
00:07:18 Right there?
00:07:19 Yeah.
00:07:20 Okay.
00:07:21 One of the requirements was driver's permit.
00:07:26 Valid driver's permit.
00:07:27 Okay.
00:07:28 Oh, sorry.
00:07:29 A valid driver's license.
00:07:31 Yes.
00:07:32 And some of them did not have it.
00:07:34 Okay.
00:07:35 Some of them had four subjects and not five.
00:07:38 Okay.
00:07:39 And also a number of other issues.
00:07:41 So we, all is not lost.
00:07:44 You were given indication as to what you need to change or what you need to get or how you need to improve.
00:07:53 And now, all you need to do is to go and get these things.
00:07:57 And whenever your seat appears again, you will go and all should be well.
00:08:02 Yeah?
00:08:03 Let me ask a question.
00:08:04 Ask the question.
00:08:06 It may be a rhetorical question for people, but I wonder if that question was ever asked.
00:08:14 So now that you're recruiting 1,000 people to the police service, what are these police officers to do?
00:08:25 What is the purpose of recruiting 1,000 police officers?
00:08:29 Is it, as we would have said in the past, to put a police officer on every corner?
00:08:34 What's the purpose?
00:08:35 Marlon, we are short, you know.
00:08:37 Human resource-wise, we are short by many.
00:08:40 All right?
00:08:41 What you see, and if the public looking, they will notice that you see the same people every day.
00:08:51 Basically, that's what's happening.
00:08:54 You see the same people every day because it is the same amount of persons that are really providing that type of protection to our citizens.
00:09:03 All right?
00:09:04 We always appreciate the assistance from our colleagues at the Defense Force.
00:09:11 But, however, Mr. Hopkinson, the police officers for a number of years have been short.
00:09:18 Now, and I explain this to you time and time again.
00:09:21 You and I, if we go for recruitment, the ages would be between 18 and 35.
00:09:29 Well, at the time of you going into training, you should not be 35 years old.
00:09:34 So let's say I will use 18 to 34, given a year before you get everything and you're ready on the inside.
00:09:43 That's how it's set to be.
00:09:47 When you look at that age between that age gap there, and we all enter, some of us would be 18, some of us would be 19.
00:09:58 Some of us would be 20.
00:10:00 But when it's time to go home, you see how it has been going?
00:10:05 So those who have attained the age of 55, around that time, would be going home.
00:10:11 So let's say the batches are 100 persons.
00:10:16 And between January and June, 50 persons would attain the age of 55 because they probably didn't make it to the First Division.
00:10:27 That's 50 persons going home in a group, basically.
00:10:31 So one month, two months, three months, four months, five months, six months, and that's it.
00:10:34 So we might end up with another 50.
00:10:38 And let's say from August to December, 20 more police has gone.
00:10:44 You see?
00:10:46 And if the recruitment, because of -- and I understand this part, too -- because of the recruitment issues with the COVID,
00:10:53 that was one of the issues that the Chilean and Tobago Police Service recruitment section was having.
00:10:59 Yeah?
00:11:01 So it's about replacing the boots on the ground with self-concern.
00:11:06 So if it is that after you all recruit 1,000 people and you don't get the desired results, so what are you going to do?
00:11:19 Recruit 1,000 more?
00:11:21 No, no.
00:11:23 Recruit 1,000 more?
00:11:25 No.
00:11:27 Recruit 1,000 more?
00:11:29 No.
00:11:31 When you put strategies in place --
00:11:33 And recruit 1,000 more?
00:11:35 When you put strategies in place --
00:11:37 And recruit 1,000 more?
00:11:39 You do it taking into consideration the manpower that you have, yeah, and how you're going to utilize that manpower to get your desired results.
00:11:48 Do you understand that?
00:11:50 So it's manpower, equipment, and strategy.
00:11:57 Yeah?
00:11:58 So persons could say --
00:12:00 But we're lacking on the strategy, you know, but go ahead.
00:12:02 We're lacking on the what?
00:12:04 We're lacking on the strategy.
00:12:06 You would think that we are lacking on the strategy.
00:12:08 Alexander --
00:12:09 I just told you something there.
00:12:11 Alexander, as my father used to say, as my dear departed father used to say, "Gentlemen, you hearing yourself?"
00:12:17 All right, listen again.
00:12:18 Alexander is telling you all this evening, the good people of Trinidad and Tobago and wherever across the world that you're listening to us and that you're viewing us,
00:12:27 he is telling us that the strategies, the anti-crime strategies that we have in place in Trinidad and Tobago --
00:12:35 Go ahead.
00:12:37 Not Trinidad and Tobago.
00:12:39 Trinidad and Tobago, that they are working well.
00:12:42 Mr. Hopkinson --
00:12:44 600 and something murders in 2022, 500 and something murders in 2023.
00:12:51 And Alexander is telling us that these strategies are working well.
00:12:56 Alexander, I want to see if these strategies not working well, what would happen?
00:13:01 Let me tell you this.
00:13:02 You see, Marlon, I just explained to you.
00:13:05 You see, some children need to sit in front of the teacher and word for word you write things down.
00:13:10 Well, go ahead.
00:13:11 Let me sit down.
00:13:12 Go ahead, sir.
00:13:13 Go ahead.
00:13:14 Go ahead.
00:13:15 I'll write in.
00:13:16 Go ahead.
00:13:17 I just told Mr. Hopkinson.
00:13:18 Go ahead.
00:13:20 Because of the manpower shortage, the results are that you are seeing the same officers every day.
00:13:27 Mr. Hopkinson, if, say, for instance, you are TV6, I'm seeing you every day.
00:13:32 Mr. Hopkinson, how long you can last before you burn out?
00:13:36 Oh, I'm getting a funny smile all of a sudden.
00:13:38 Yeah, I'm getting a funny smile.
00:13:40 So you will, Mr. Hopkinson, get that burnout, you know.
00:13:45 You can do what you want.
00:13:46 Only comets burn out, you know.
00:13:48 Yeah.
00:13:49 You would not last forever.
00:13:51 And I'm saying this to you.
00:13:53 The rotation is a small rotation because it's the same police officers rotating like this.
00:13:58 But when we get additional strength, Mr. Hopkinson, we can open up like this, put persons in the right place, yeah,
00:14:04 and then expand on our strategy in order to fight crime effectively.
00:14:09 Alexander, I wish you all the very best, you know.
00:14:12 I wish you all the very best.
00:14:14 I continue to support the initiatives of the police service.
00:14:19 My record is clear.
00:14:21 I continue to support you all, but with the greatest of respect, and nobody can deny this,
00:14:27 whether you're in government, whether you're in the police service, whether you're in the church, whether you're in a mandatory, it doesn't matter.
00:14:33 All right, let me ask you this.
00:14:34 We have not been getting the results that we want, re-crime.
00:14:39 Marlon, first of all, crime is not a statistical phenomenon.
00:14:44 All right.
00:14:45 So let me deal with that this way.
00:14:46 So you're going to bat.
00:14:47 Yes.
00:14:48 You're going to bat.
00:14:49 All your men out in the seam, boom.
00:14:52 What do they do?
00:14:53 There and then.
00:14:54 I don't know.
00:14:55 Go ahead.
00:14:56 The ball are bowling different now.
00:14:57 The bowling are kind of offline googly.
00:14:59 And you have to change your strategy before you go on the field.
00:15:03 Yes.
00:15:04 And the next one come now, you're the bowling fool toss.
00:15:06 What do you have to do?
00:15:08 Change the strategy.
00:15:09 You have to change your strategy.
00:15:10 So it means that as things happen, we must change our strategy regularly in order to counteract what is happening now.
00:15:20 Alexander, we have heard greater roosters than you crow.
00:15:24 You know, we have heard greater roosters.
00:15:28 You heard greater than me crow.
00:15:30 But this is not about crowing.
00:15:31 It's about telling you as it is.
00:15:34 So it's the human versus the foul.
00:15:36 Mr. Hopkins, you want us to tell you how it is?
00:15:39 Tell us how it is.
00:15:40 Madam.
00:15:41 Take the consideration.
00:15:42 Take the consideration.
00:15:43 Madam, could we go to item six?
00:15:45 I want to show all of you.
00:15:47 Take the consideration.
00:15:48 What I said.
00:15:49 I want to show all of you how it is in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:15:51 Go.
00:15:52 Item number six.
00:15:53 Go ahead.
00:15:54 We're heading down to San Fernando.
00:15:55 All right.
00:15:56 Go ahead.
00:15:57 We're going to the intersection of Funrose and June Street in San Fernando.
00:16:02 And this was about 2.12 p.m. today.
00:16:07 You know what you're seeing there?
00:16:09 Yeah.
00:16:10 It's a vehicle.
00:16:11 Shut up.
00:16:12 That is riddled with bullets.
00:16:13 Inside is a victim whose body is also riddled by bullets.
00:16:18 Yep.
00:16:20 Now, let me ask you this.
00:16:23 You see, you observe what one man is doing there?
00:16:29 Well, I'm observing the observers.
00:16:31 What do you observe?
00:16:32 What do you observe?
00:16:33 What do you want to do in the blue jersey?
00:16:34 Not the blue, blue jersey.
00:16:35 This jersey looks like a kind of funny color.
00:16:38 The one you're watching is videotaped, isn't it?
00:16:40 Yes.
00:16:41 Not one person.
00:16:43 And this is where we try to secure this crime scene.
00:16:46 You see?
00:16:47 You see the crime scene?
00:16:48 So now I have to ask for this man here in the black, that man there, who is this man
00:16:52 here, who is that lady there, who is this man here in the red, who is that lady there
00:16:56 in the black.
00:16:57 All these persons now have become part of our crime scene.
00:17:01 The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service must now see them, interview them, with intentions
00:17:05 to help them solve this crime.
00:17:06 You see?
00:17:07 Well, I'm glad that you raised that because there's this video and there's another video
00:17:13 when apparently someone opened one of the doors of the vehicle.
00:17:18 And I'm just wondering whether so many civilians should be on the crime scene.
00:17:25 If there are bullets on the ground, the Mamadi slippers would have taken some and flip it
00:17:31 away, and flip it here, and flip it here, and flip it here.
00:17:35 And because we try to educate the public every single day.
00:17:38 So someone has opened the door now.
00:17:40 About crime scene, Mr. Hopkinson.
00:17:44 And the man with the phone hasn't gone down yet, you know?
00:17:47 He will do a fantastic job at TV6.
00:17:51 That's all.
00:17:53 You'll have to call him.
00:17:55 And this is what?
00:17:56 Watch out, watch out.
00:17:57 Marlon Hopkinson.
00:17:59 The crime scene, the preservation of a crime scene is often one of the techniques used
00:18:07 to solve the crime.
00:18:08 Do you understand that?
00:18:09 Okay, good.
00:18:10 So stop there.
00:18:11 What if the individual was shot and wounded?
00:18:15 Did not die?
00:18:16 Should civilians try to render assistance?
00:18:19 Call the ambulance?
00:18:20 Call the police?
00:18:21 Right.
00:18:22 Venture onto the scene?
00:18:24 Right.
00:18:25 Marlon Hopkinson, all right.
00:18:26 A responsible individual.
00:18:28 Take for instance, I'm a police officer.
00:18:30 I'm in the area.
00:18:32 Right?
00:18:33 I tell police, I say, "Hold on, hold on."
00:18:40 Carlos!
00:18:41 Carlos!
00:18:42 No response at the case.
00:18:44 Obviously, Mr. Hopkinson, the next thing is to call law enforcement.
00:18:47 And remove yourself from the scene.
00:18:49 If the man is moving, Mr. Hopkinson, at that stage, it might seem fit to try to take him
00:18:56 to the nearest health center or medical facility.
00:18:59 But then when the police come, now I can engage him and say, "Yeah, I was the first on the
00:19:04 scene.
00:19:05 I had to do this, I had to do that."
00:19:08 So they start to operate and involve me along a particular line.
00:19:11 Do you understand that?
00:19:12 Okay.
00:19:13 But when these things happen here, everybody's there.
00:19:18 Nobody's looking for anything because they don't know or they don't care.
00:19:21 A man is taping to put it up on the social network and he's all right with that.
00:19:27 You see?
00:19:28 Yeah.
00:19:29 All right.
00:19:30 How much time do we have, ma'am?
00:19:32 No time?
00:19:33 All right.
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00:21:09 Any time you leave your keys in the ignition when you pull up to your driveway, you make yourself an easy target for theft and robbery.
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00:21:35 A message from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
00:21:39 So I'm being told that today was the first day for the implementation of the new rules and regulations regarding dress wear when you visit government offices, right?
00:21:58 So it has been relaxed a little bit, but I suspect the message is if you do have to go into the offices, that you dress properly.
00:22:06 You know, and I quite agree with that because I've seen some...
00:22:10 You don't want to see the hair on your chest.
00:22:12 I'm thinking to...
00:22:13 Men and women.
00:22:14 I'm thinking to the teachers.
00:22:16 That's one of the institutions where you have to be so careful with your dress code.
00:22:19 Because if you're in front of the class on the whiteboard and your clothes is not covering certain areas, a young guy sitting there is thinking about Miss along a particular line.
00:22:34 That's why some students would have gone to class.
00:22:36 Yeah, that's the only reason he's going there.
00:22:38 I think in his head, he wants to share anything with anybody.
00:22:42 He wants to see what Miss has on.
00:22:44 So Miss, let us be careful with that.
00:22:46 Now, also that speaks to police officers too.
00:22:51 Because let us be real, that must also come into the picture frame for police officers.
00:23:00 Because it just tells me one person to look and dress a particular way.
00:23:06 Remember, you have on the uniform of the Trans-Tibetan police service.
00:23:09 And if you are especially the female and you have your skirt short, short, short and all these things.
00:23:17 I've never really seen that, Alexander.
00:23:19 But you're in a better place to see that.
00:23:21 I've never seen any female police officer.
00:23:24 Yeah, we don't look...
00:23:25 A WPC with a short skirt.
00:23:26 Some of them...
00:23:27 I mean, persons have made comments before.
00:23:29 But some of them, they are...
00:23:31 Should I say they are well figured.
00:23:35 And as a result of that, they would look different and persons would make comments.
00:23:39 But once they are put together in terms of their clothing, I think everything is all right.
00:23:43 But let me tell you this.
00:23:45 Unless there's an emergency where you're involved in an RTA,
00:23:49 or some situation where you run out of your home in a hurry,
00:23:54 I think the same should be done at the police station.
00:23:58 You understand what I'm saying?
00:23:59 Go ahead, I'm listening.
00:24:00 If you're involved in an RTA, you're going to the beach and think, well, you might have one.
00:24:04 And even if you're going to the beach, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:24:06 I think...
00:24:07 Would you leave home...
00:24:09 Well, I'm going to put my foot in my mouth here because I know for carnival this is going to happen.
00:24:13 Are you going to leave home with your bra and underwear
00:24:19 and traverse the whole place from here to San Fernando and back, Mr. Hopkinson?
00:24:23 You don't think it's necessary sometimes if you're going with friends
00:24:26 to pee a little bar with something that you could travel with?
00:24:30 That's a good option, yes.
00:24:32 Because some of us, we have seen, I have seen in the station,
00:24:36 especially around carnival time, and sometimes not even carnival,
00:24:39 a man come in the station to sign his book.
00:24:42 He have on his slippers.
00:24:44 His pants is here.
00:24:47 I don't know what the...
00:24:48 I don't want to look.
00:24:49 The trousers, I think for you, I didn't think, but...
00:24:50 I take your word for it.
00:24:51 And he have on a white beater, that's a vest.
00:24:53 Right.
00:24:54 And he comes into the station, so...
00:24:57 Marlon, you would want to encourage someone to come to your place of work like that?
00:25:04 So we will tell them, listen, I think you can do better than that, sir.
00:25:10 Yes?
00:25:11 I do understand it, yes.
00:25:13 But you see, there are different circumstances.
00:25:16 That's what I'm saying.
00:25:17 As you're saying, maybe in emergencies, okay.
00:25:19 Of course, we will accommodate you.
00:25:21 But you have to think about how well-off financially people are
00:25:26 and some people just can't afford shoes and...
00:25:29 Mr. Hopkinson, let me tell you something.
00:25:31 ...other type of clothing.
00:25:32 Mr. Hopkinson, you know, if you tell a man to put on...
00:25:35 You need...
00:25:36 So you have won a large sum of money and you need to...
00:25:41 There are persons from another country here to really present this price to you.
00:25:46 And you need a man going and get all kind of shoes, long shoes, tie,
00:25:49 think, dress, don't, shoes, nice heel, and all kind of things.
00:25:53 Mr. Hopkinson, we must encourage that.
00:25:56 The first thing I have learned growing up,
00:26:00 as soon as you start to work or if you're not working and you're doing left-side jobs,
00:26:04 Marlon Hopkinson, you start to buy some shoes, pants, and shoes,
00:26:09 just in case you are called upon to be interviewed
00:26:14 or you're going on a job selection session, early o'clock.
00:26:19 So before you start to buy these sneakers and then with the prints and all these things,
00:26:23 you prepare that, one, two, three, two pants, two shirt, long sleeve,
00:26:28 and a short sleeve as the case may be.
00:26:30 Learn to tie a tie and all these things.
00:26:33 So if you are called upon at short notice, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:26:36 and these things are always pressed and waiting.
00:26:40 And wear a white T-shirt underneath your shirt.
00:26:43 Man, listen, man.
00:26:44 Not a vest.
00:26:45 Yeah.
00:26:46 A T-shirt will soak up whatever sweat you are sweating.
00:26:49 It will.
00:26:50 I hate to see people come for interviews and they're sweating.
00:26:54 Sweaty.
00:26:55 Put on a T-shirt underneath.
00:26:58 Yeah.
00:27:00 Dry fit.
00:27:02 Yeah, you can do that.
00:27:03 Yeah, put a dry fit under.
00:27:05 So I hope I told some of these guys who have intention
00:27:09 because you have a list of different things you need to do as time go by.
00:27:13 We don't care if you have one suit, Mr. Hopkinson.
00:27:15 It don't matter to us.
00:27:17 Make yourself look--
00:27:18 It must be a clean suit.
00:27:19 Yeah, make yourself--dress yourself appropriately
00:27:22 so when we can get that first impression of you,
00:27:25 which might be a lasting one.
00:27:26 Yeah.
00:27:27 All right.
00:27:28 Shooting last evening in the Las Lomas number one area,
00:27:32 two persons shot, a 14-year-old succumbed to injuries,
00:27:37 while a 20-year-old remains warded.
00:27:41 Mr. Hopkinson.
00:27:43 As we speak, this is the 50-year-old.
00:27:47 14.
00:27:48 Yeah.
00:27:50 As we speak, law enforcement is looking for the individual
00:27:58 who's responsible for such and that.
00:28:01 And this is another thing you mentioned earlier.
00:28:04 You might bring up this as one of the statistics.
00:28:07 How are we to know that Mr. number one was going to arm himself with a gun
00:28:16 and come and shoot persons in the roadway with a shotgun, Mr. Hopkinson?
00:28:21 There was no way unless somebody--neighbors, friends, family--
00:28:27 knew and said nothing.
00:28:32 We could not have known.
00:28:34 We would have known when the shot starts and persons start to call law enforcement,
00:28:37 then we reach down to that area.
00:28:40 But then, remember, you ask to see.
00:28:43 You want to see?
00:28:44 You want to see?
00:28:45 And you would show us the statistic.
00:28:47 Yeah?
00:28:48 Mr. Hopkinson, it don't work like that.
00:28:52 I do not have, or none of my colleagues, the commission of police,
00:28:56 the executive, do not have a crystal ball where we can just rule it,
00:28:59 rule it, and know what's going to happen next.
00:29:02 We have seen what happens with persons with crystal ball.
00:29:06 Yeah?
00:29:07 Mr. TeeDee?
00:29:10 What do we have next, ma'am?
00:29:14 All right, we're heading to--
00:29:16 Tunapuna.
00:29:17 Tunapuna.
00:29:19 This is for the youths and them looking at this television at this time.
00:29:21 This is something we would want you to see.
00:29:25 Look at this.
00:29:31 This is a murder.
00:29:33 A number one, we call it in the police service, shooting.
00:29:42 A man associated, I understand, with drugs was shot and killed
00:29:50 after he left the location.
00:29:56 I don't know if I'm brave enough, you know,
00:29:58 to open that door there like that,
00:30:01 and all kind of talk again from that Spanish speaking guy.
00:30:07 But, Mr. Hopkinson, anybody with information,
00:30:11 take a look at this again.
00:30:14 Anybody with information, you can call the Nevis police station,
00:30:19 the homicide bureau of investigation.
00:30:22 You saw the man follow?
00:30:25 Let's go again. What do you want me to do?
00:30:28 Look at this.
00:30:35 Oh, look, look, look, look.
00:30:37 Somebody magazine follow?
00:30:40 All right.
00:30:42 And they use the famous car.
00:30:44 It looks like a T-Rex.
00:30:48 And now the gentleman has expired.
00:30:54 Again, anybody with information, you can call the Nevis police station,
00:30:57 555, this happened in the Tunapona area over the weekend.
00:31:00 You can call the Nevis police station, 555-800-TIPS,
00:31:03 call 999, police emergency line,
00:31:06 and tell us, give us any information.
00:31:09 The homicide bureau of investigation is waiting for your phone call
00:31:12 that you could assist them in that investigation.
00:31:16 It is a murder that took place in the Tunapona area.
00:31:20 All right, let's go to Beetham Gardens now,
00:31:24 with the death of Kenneth Rodriguez, also known as Spanish.
00:31:28 He passed away on Sunday.
00:31:31 Marlon, this guy--
00:31:33 A known individual.
00:31:35 This guy was not without controversy.
00:31:37 You know how it went.
00:31:39 And he was one of the persons who was one time called to a meeting
00:31:48 with the then Prime Minister, Mr. Patrick Manning.
00:31:53 He was one of the persons present.
00:31:56 And he might be the--
00:31:59 Well, I think he was the--
00:32:02 I think there's only two persons I think still alive.
00:32:04 Or he might be the lone survivor of that whole thing.
00:32:08 If I was to look at that picture again.
00:32:10 Two people.
00:32:11 Two persons, yeah, two persons.
00:32:13 I understand that yesterday he had a feeling unwell.
00:32:18 He was taken to the American institution,
00:32:23 where he subsequently died.
00:32:25 You understand it may be from a heart attack.
00:32:28 Yeah?
00:32:29 He came into controversy with respect to contracts.
00:32:32 Remember that?
00:32:33 Contracts and all of these things.
00:32:36 At the time when we were talking about giving contracts
00:32:40 to so-called persons in the area who--
00:32:46 Community leaders.
00:32:47 --needed young leadership and community leaders and all of that.
00:32:50 And his name came up and there's a list of controversy with it.
00:32:54 And police station building and all kind of things.
00:32:57 So at the end of the day, you know, he left.
00:33:01 He's gone.
00:33:02 And life goes on.
00:33:04 Yeah?
00:33:05 Mm-hmm.
00:33:06 All right.
00:33:07 We're still in Port of Spain.
00:33:08 All right.
00:33:09 We're going to go to a break.
00:33:10 We'll be back, everybody.
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00:35:05 I would say, because life is precious.
00:35:08 Plus, I can't afford to pay another speeding ticket.
00:35:13 A message from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
00:35:19 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:35:24 I want to say a very special good afternoon to lots of love from Tobago.
00:35:33 Lots of love.
00:35:34 I will call that individual by that name from now on.
00:35:38 Lots of love.
00:35:39 Lots of love from Tobago.
00:35:40 Love after love after love after love.
00:35:43 After love after love after love.
00:35:44 To you.
00:35:45 I hope you had a good day, and thank you very much for your viewership.
00:35:48 We do appreciate that.
00:35:51 OK.
00:35:52 So a man is currently assisting police with their investigation
00:35:55 into a gun and ammunition--
00:35:58 into a gun and ammunition--
00:36:00 into a gun and ammunition discovery yesterday, boy.
00:36:03 Investigation--
00:36:04 Go ahead.
00:36:05 You don't have to read that.
00:36:06 --into the discovery of a gun and ammunition yesterday.
00:36:08 Yeah.
00:36:09 I edited this for all of you.
00:36:11 On Saturday around 9 PM, officers of the Port of Spain Task Force
00:36:14 conducted an exercise in St. Paul Street and in Varennes.
00:36:18 During the exercise, the officers had cause to arrest a male priority
00:36:21 offender found in possession of a Glock 17 pistol with an automatic
00:36:25 selector and 11 rounds of 9 millimeter ammunition.
00:36:29 The man is currently being processed.
00:36:32 All right?
00:36:33 You see what I did there?
00:36:34 All right.
00:36:35 Now, he's expected to appear before a Port of Spain magistrate--
00:36:38 Today.
00:36:39 All right.
00:36:40 Did he appear?
00:36:42 But they don't know.
00:36:43 I'm not sure.
00:36:44 All right?
00:36:45 Inquiries are ongoing.
00:36:46 Good.
00:36:47 All right?
00:36:48 Now, the video that we are going to show you now, this happened--
00:36:52 Today.
00:36:53 --earlier today at St. Paul Street.
00:36:55 OK.
00:36:58 All right.
00:37:00 The officers from various sections of the Chuantabago Police Service
00:37:04 today went to St. Paul Street with respect to information where a
00:37:14 number of persons were searched, persons detained, information
00:37:26 gathered by officers.
00:37:32 There were some issues with respect to the behavior of citizens,
00:37:36 which is quite normal.
00:37:38 Normal or never.
00:37:39 I'm talking about that.
00:37:40 We'll go into that in a little while in the talk.
00:37:43 However, law enforcement stood their ground.
00:37:47 And I want the public, as I speak, to stop paying so much attention to
00:37:56 the social media and their mischief makers.
00:38:03 They are persons from the time they see something is happening, they go
00:38:07 and they record things and say, "Port of Spain under pressure," and
00:38:11 "Port of Spain this," and "Port of Spain that," and all of this chaos.
00:38:16 It seems to cause some level of chaos with respect to everybody in
00:38:20 Port of Spain or surrounding area.
00:38:25 Your source of information would be the police.
00:38:27 We have learned, now more than ever, the communication department of
00:38:33 the Chuantabago Police Service.
00:38:35 If there is something out there that we need to inform members of the
00:38:38 public, we will take a break.
00:38:43 For breaking news, Ms. Hopkinson.
00:38:45 We'll cut in and say, "Breaking news," and we will give it to you.
00:38:49 We'll call various radio stations, television stations, and inform
00:38:54 members of the public.
00:38:56 It's what the commissioner wants.
00:38:59 So, members of the public, let us avoid as much as we can.
00:39:05 Listen to social media and then make a pronouncement.
00:39:10 Some persons go into the extent of, "Yeah, but I was just there, and I
00:39:12 see, and I see, and I see nothing."
00:39:16 Yeah, I was just there, didn't see nothing.
00:39:19 Officers were just conducting a routine.
00:39:22 This is normal operation in the Port of Spain area.
00:39:25 This is normal, Alexander?
00:39:27 Normal.
00:39:28 This is what we do quite regularly.
00:39:29 With about 100 police officers?
00:39:30 We understand what's happening in terms of the guns presence and the
00:39:35 murders, so when you see us operating, this is what we do quite regularly.
00:39:39 And not only this area.
00:39:40 We go different areas.
00:39:43 We are trying to ensure that there's a level of peace and security for all
00:39:49 citizens.
00:39:52 A sea is coming.
00:39:54 You know who's sea?
00:39:55 Who?
00:39:56 Carnival.
00:39:57 Okay, the big sea.
00:39:58 Yeah, so you have to ensure that all visitors, all citizens are protected.
00:40:07 Whether you're a citizen or a visitor of this land.
00:40:12 All right, so we have to do what we have to do.
00:40:15 We are asking citizens to cooperate with us.
00:40:18 If you cooperate, it's normally a smooth exchange.
00:40:22 If you don't, well, there are issues.
00:40:24 And we are not afraid to treat with issues.
00:40:27 All right?
00:40:29 This was in the St. Paul Street area today.
00:40:32 A number of persons were detained, and as usual, the ladies and the --
00:40:38 Oh, God.
00:40:39 The ladies --
00:40:40 The ladies came out to play.
00:40:41 The ladies sometimes they just can't behave.
00:40:44 I don't know why.
00:40:46 Their mouth, Mr. Hopkinson, their mouth.
00:40:48 It's like pepper sauce.
00:40:50 Yeah, Congo pepper sauce.
00:40:52 Scorpion pepper.
00:40:54 You know, there are so much things to say, and sometimes they don't even know
00:40:58 the circumstances under which law enforcement is operating, but yet they have things to say.
00:41:03 "Hey, look, look, look, look, the boy didn't do it, the boy didn't do it, the boy didn't do it."
00:41:08 I don't know what it is.
00:41:10 So we are hoping that at the end of the day, we get persons to comply with the instructions of law enforcement
00:41:20 when they give it to you.
00:41:22 And that is that.
00:41:26 Yeah?
00:41:28 That was St. Paul Street today.
00:41:30 Every community, if you have that type of violence and behaviors, well, then it is what it is, Mr. Hopkinson.
00:41:41 It is what it is.
00:41:43 All right?
00:41:45 All right, we have a call.
00:41:47 Good evening, caller.
00:41:49 Good afternoon.
00:41:51 [Indiscernible]
00:41:54 Oh, how are you doing, sir?
00:41:55 Good.
00:41:56 Yes, sir.
00:41:57 I want to say something, Superintendent.
00:41:59 Go ahead.
00:42:00 I am very concerned about what takes place, likewise, all over the world.
00:42:05 Now, that murder that takes place, that crime scene where people flock there,
00:42:10 now, that is a normal thing that happens in any part of the world, when people will crowd the situation there.
00:42:17 And sometimes one of these same persons are there to give you information.
00:42:22 Now, so to avoid that scene, the faster the police reach on the crime scene, then they could prevent the people from going.
00:42:30 Now, what Marlon was saying, listen to me, the crime detection, we are operating in total status crime, right?
00:42:40 But we don't have total detection because to solve crime is a very expensive thing.
00:42:48 And we have to have -- we don't have equipment here.
00:42:51 I see all parts of the world, sometimes America, they check me tires.
00:42:55 And sometimes these vehicles, you see that same white vehicle?
00:42:59 That could become -- I'm doing a lot of murder commitments, and it might be the same vehicle.
00:43:04 They might change the number plate, but it may be the same thing there, because all the crimes are looking at it,
00:43:09 T-da, T-da, white, T-da, T-da.
00:43:11 So you don't even switch the number plate.
00:43:13 It has to go down deeper, and, you know, I agree that you have to defend the integrity of the police.
00:43:21 But as I said, no, this thing is bigger than the surface as far as I can see right now,
00:43:28 because the crimes are east, west, north, and south, in the middle, at the side, and everything.
00:43:33 So I believe that definitely they have to have a special -- develop a squad, a special squad to do these detections.
00:43:44 Let us get some equipment, right?
00:43:47 The CT camera helping, but you're still depending on people to say something and say something.
00:43:53 But if you go down to high detection rate, which is AI and all these things,
00:43:58 some of the crimes could solve because too much of unsolved murder.
00:44:02 These fellows are killing and killing again, and they're getting away, killing and killing, and they're getting away.
00:44:06 So I say that, you know, congratulations, you're all doing your -- everybody, but we need to do more.
00:44:12 So I am telling you, it is in our control, and you will know what's taking place on the scene and things.
00:44:21 You will know, but the point is trying to solve the crime.
00:44:24 And I have AI now to tell you, but the government has to spend money to do that.
00:44:28 So I wish you the best in everything for the service and you and your forces.
00:44:34 All right. Thank you very much, sir.
00:44:36 Thank you very much, Kola.
00:44:37 Kola, and you're right, you know.
00:44:39 Technology is what is moving the police in different parts of the world.
00:44:43 It's what is bringing them up to power things, is technology, and we are aware of that.
00:44:48 We also want our citizens to be part and parcel of all of this.
00:44:52 We want them to be able to contribute.
00:44:54 Now, the problem with me looking over a number of years is that I would go -- a civilian will go on the social media
00:45:01 and give a whole statement as to what he would have seen.
00:45:06 Pictures and all, huh?
00:45:08 I have that same civilian on arrival of the police, even by himself in the corner under the tree in the root.
00:45:16 Tell me what happened here now.
00:45:18 I didn't see nothing.
00:45:19 You know why, Alexander?
00:45:20 Mr. Hopkinson, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:45:22 Go ahead.
00:45:23 You tell me what to tell me why.
00:45:24 You want to know why?
00:45:25 You want to know why?
00:45:26 What I just tell you.
00:45:27 Is this a why?
00:45:28 The man went on social media, put up his whole face, and when the police come to him, he can't remember anything, Mr. Hopkinson.
00:45:36 Alexander, Alexander, is this a why?
00:45:38 Tell me why.
00:45:39 Is this a why?
00:45:40 Let me see.
00:45:41 Is that a why?
00:45:42 Let me see, let me see.
00:45:43 [Laughter]
00:45:47 What you got to do there, boy?
00:45:48 What is that?
00:45:49 What is that?
00:45:51 That's not a letter?
00:45:52 Is this a vest?
00:45:53 [Laughter]
00:45:56 You guys, we will continue this discussion after our break.
00:45:59 We're coming back, we're coming back.
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00:48:02 You made that promise to us a few months ago.
00:48:06 Yeah, you remind me.
00:48:07 She said she forgot you.
00:48:09 Wow.
00:48:11 Alexander, what is that?
00:48:13 So, let me tell you.
00:48:17 Man, I don't say nothing.
00:48:19 Yeah, next thing you know, some strange thing happen there, you know.
00:48:22 Be careful, you know.
00:48:24 What was the question you were asking?
00:48:26 Right.
00:48:27 We're talking about how, what part the civilian can play and why they are exposing themselves to the social media and when they are confronted, not confronted, when they are asked like.
00:48:36 Because still in 2023, 2024 rather, in Trinidad and Tobago, let me say that again.
00:48:44 Still in 2024 in Trinidad and Tobago, there are people who feel if they come forward to assist the police, that the police will not treat them fairly.
00:48:59 They are again concerned about the attitude of some police officers against them.
00:49:06 And what they will tell you is that, you know what, I called the police officer and the police officer acted like I was the perpetrator of the crime.
00:49:16 And that is the reason, that is the big reason why there's great hesitation by some members of the public to help the police.
00:49:26 How does this add up?
00:49:27 What do you mean how it add up?
00:49:28 Wait, wait, wait.
00:49:29 You spoke to me and we had this communication and we dealt with things along a particular line.
00:49:35 You prefer to go on a social media that has more than 2 million persons, so 2 million persons saw you all over the world.
00:49:40 Somehow, you don't know how to talk to people.
00:49:43 Mr. Hopkinson, how does that add up to what you're saying?
00:49:47 Because you said that you, alright, you want to remain anonymous.
00:49:52 But yet, you're on the social media talking about everything, sometimes even the things that we discuss.
00:49:58 How does that add up?
00:50:00 And then you will say, "Huh, the police went and killed the man."
00:50:02 Well, the person just doesn't want any personal contact with you all.
00:50:06 It seems to me like you are blinded by the whole social media aspect and believe that that is important.
00:50:12 And sometimes you take a good interviewer, and I was walking there and I saw the man.
00:50:17 When they started to shoot the man, I saw, "So good, boy."
00:50:19 And all this thing, you're going all into that.
00:50:23 All into that.
00:50:25 But I moved behind the tree and I looked.
00:50:28 And when I see the man came out of the car, he shoot back.
00:50:31 Mr. Hopkinson, when you're finished, the police come to you, right?
00:50:35 They say, "Goodness, how are you?"
00:50:37 Well, that is not a problem.
00:50:39 That attitude that you have there, that is not the problem.
00:50:41 Why do you think that is not the problem?
00:50:43 When you get to the police station, "Yeah, my boy, who is you?
00:50:46 What did you come here for?
00:50:48 What? Information? Information about what?
00:50:50 When you get that information, what?
00:50:52 You were selling weed too, or what?
00:50:54 How do you know that?
00:50:56 Your brother is not so and so?"
00:50:58 All of them kind of things.
00:51:00 We're hoping that that change will come in the not too distant future where the Chattanooga police service,
00:51:10 that area, Mr. Hopkinson, that area in the Chattanooga police service,
00:51:17 that persons dread to go sometimes because of the reception that they get
00:51:23 will really turn into a reception area of the Chattanooga police service
00:51:27 where we can be proud of those who attend the persons
00:51:30 and we can get good feedback from persons.
00:51:32 We're hoping that will happen in not too distant future.
00:51:34 People don't understand that when you serve people in a professional way
00:51:40 and you're empathizing with them
00:51:44 and you just have a good demeanor, good attitude, good behavior
00:51:49 and you're treating people in that way,
00:51:51 you just don't realize how far that goes
00:51:54 because that same person is going to tell everybody,
00:51:57 "Well, boy, I went to this so and so police station and I met so and so officer
00:52:02 and this officer is so good."
00:52:04 When you have any problems or you need to speak to any officer,
00:52:08 go and ask for this officer.
00:52:10 That goes a long, long way.
00:52:12 Sadly, there are some police officers who don't understand that
00:52:18 just like other organizations don't get me started on them
00:52:21 because a lot of them training pig and hog
00:52:24 like them two pigs that are at the pass every evening on the beatum
00:52:28 walking on the side of the highway.
00:52:30 I think they live at the dump.
00:52:32 [laughter]
00:52:35 They see them this afternoon just chilling, walking on the side.
00:52:39 Don't eat them because you can't.
00:52:42 Don't pressure them, they will assist you.
00:52:44 Let me just say this.
00:52:46 You got to put them to purge.
00:52:48 You know what we are exposed to and you as the person in that reception area
00:52:52 have to be so humble and understanding
00:52:54 because we often look at what people coming in there with an issue.
00:52:58 Of course.
00:52:59 Let me just give you one experience and tell me how you would have dealt with this.
00:53:04 In the reception area, which was the bigger police service,
00:53:08 a lady walked in and she said,
00:53:11 "Listen, listen, the thief in my car, the thief in my car, the thief in my car,
00:53:15 officer, officer, the thief in my car."
00:53:17 She passed everybody, went to the front and she ran into the thief in the car,
00:53:20 the thief in the car.
00:53:21 So you know you try to humble her down.
00:53:23 "The thief in the car, every time I call him, he police it and he come."
00:53:26 Customer.
00:53:27 But you know that person is going through that thing and it could happen.
00:53:31 I would say to the lady, "Miss Solomon, please, come this way.
00:53:35 Let's have a discussion."
00:53:36 Exactly.
00:53:37 Because you know what she's going through.
00:53:39 She wouldn't come and just curse in the station and somebody would go,
00:53:42 "Miss Lady, lock up now."
00:53:43 You have to understand what she's going through.
00:53:45 That's the reason why I use that surname.
00:53:47 And talk to her, have a conversation with her and listen,
00:53:52 Miss Aptin, you wouldn't believe this.
00:53:53 Watch her, watch her.
00:53:55 You wouldn't believe this.
00:53:57 We drove out of the station asking for all the information in the car.
00:54:01 We left her with the officer at the station.
00:54:03 And by the time we reached a particular part of Muba, we found the vehicle.
00:54:08 And when we found the vehicle, we wrecked the vehicle without telling her.
00:54:13 We asked the officer to keep her at the station.
00:54:15 We wrecked the vehicle and brought it back there.
00:54:18 And when that lady saw that, because she was not the same person that came
00:54:21 into the station, you see.
00:54:23 So somebody aggrieved when they came to the station.
00:54:25 They come to the station, they aggrieve because something happened.
00:54:29 Nobody would walk on the station and say,
00:54:32 "I just passed here."
00:54:35 God, they're stupid.
00:54:36 You know?
00:54:38 I am thinking that nobody would behave in that way.
00:54:41 And sometimes the same problems that the TGPS has --
00:54:44 Somebody else has it?
00:54:46 No, are the same problems that other organizations have.
00:54:49 Somehow, somehow, the ones who are impolite, don't like people,
00:54:59 not affable, somehow, I don't know how come they end up at the front desk
00:55:05 to deal with members of the public.
00:55:08 They are not for that position.
00:55:10 You need to put them somewhere, somewhere down in the back.
00:55:14 Somewhere down in the back.
00:55:16 Right?
00:55:17 That's where you need to put them.
00:55:18 If they can't deal with people here and now, Mr. Hopkinson,
00:55:21 you're going to put them in a vehicle and tell them go and deal with
00:55:23 something out in the streets?
00:55:24 No way.
00:55:25 I do not.
00:55:26 You will learn.
00:55:27 All right, okay.
00:55:28 You will learn.
00:55:30 But who is going to train them?
00:55:32 Because we send them time and time again and cost them a training,
00:55:35 Mr. Hopkinson.
00:55:36 Ah, I don't know who's training them.
00:55:38 I don't know who's training them.
00:55:39 Mr. Hopkinson, you can take the pig out of the mud.
00:55:44 Does it change the idea that it is still a pig?
00:55:47 And the first opportunity it sees, it goes into the mud and presents itself.
00:55:51 Go ahead.
00:55:52 Wow.
00:55:53 Let's take a call, please.
00:55:54 Who's the caller?
00:55:55 Good evening, caller.
00:55:56 The caller is gone.
00:55:57 Yeah, it's gone.
00:55:58 The caller was so taken aback by your statement, Alexander,
00:56:02 that they ran.
00:56:04 Yeah?
00:56:05 But I do understand what you're saying.
00:56:06 Let's take a call.
00:56:07 Good evening, caller.
00:56:09 Caller?
00:56:10 Caller, you there?
00:56:12 Good evening, gentlemen.
00:56:14 Yes.
00:56:15 [inaudible]
00:56:19 Who is that?
00:56:20 Who is that?
00:56:21 Who is that?
00:56:22 My partner?
00:56:23 No, no, no, no.
00:56:25 No, no, no, no, no.
00:56:28 That is your introduction every day.
00:56:30 Go ahead.
00:56:31 Who is this bakery?
00:56:32 In the bakery.
00:56:33 Go ahead.
00:56:34 He wants to congratulate you.
00:56:35 Go ahead.
00:56:36 I want to congratulate you this afternoon--
00:56:38 Hold on, hold on.
00:56:39 --for understanding the temperament of the citizenry.
00:56:44 I understand by articulating why the citizens will hesitate to make a report to the police station.
00:56:51 I'll give you one example.
00:56:52 Just when I thought he was going to do it.
00:56:56 A friend of mine owned a doubles business.
00:57:00 And in the doubles business, the salesperson received a fake counterfeit $100 bill.
00:57:08 The salesperson brought it to the business owner, and the business owner advised him to take it to the police.
00:57:18 He took it to the Shogunate police station, only to be treated like--
00:57:25 He requested the police officer, "You sure these are yours?"
00:57:29 And, "I'm having counterfeit money. Is there a charge?"
00:57:34 And he was treated like if I didn't take the responsibility to come down here and bring this $100 counterfeit money for you all.
00:57:44 You understand?
00:57:46 It doesn't serve right. It doesn't go down well when you try to do the right thing.
00:57:52 And you'd be treated that way when you go to the police station.
00:57:56 Let me just ask you one thing.
00:57:59 So, is the question wrong, or how the question was asked?
00:58:04 Go ahead.
00:58:05 What? Because if I bring in a $100 counterfeit bill, you have to be an idiot to ask me if I'm sure it's mine.
00:58:15 If it's mine, why would I bring it to the police?
00:58:18 Let us engage. Let us engage.
00:58:23 A lady's pump was stolen.
00:58:27 The pump--the water pump, Mr. Hopkinson.
00:58:30 Go ahead. Go ahead.
00:58:31 Was stolen from her residence.
00:58:33 Information started to get around. A particular name started to call.
00:58:37 You know what he did?
00:58:38 He brought the pump to the station and said somebody rushed the pump home, down in front of his yard.
00:58:44 Tell me if what they are asking is wrong, or how they are asking the question. Go ahead.
00:58:50 Mala, damn, Alexander, that is--we're talking about--I'm talking to you about chalk, and you're talking to me about cheese.
00:58:55 How can it be different?
00:58:56 And they can go to jail every time.
00:58:57 How can it be different? Two persons in possession of something.
00:59:00 This gentleman was faced with a $100--you are confessing $100 bill?
00:59:03 He did not have to bring it to the station.
00:59:05 You are talking to me about a situation where all the arrows were pointed to this individual as being the perpetrator of the theft
00:59:13 of the pump.
00:59:15 If my $100 bill that was acquired, I cannot take it and spend it somewhere else and get back my $99.
00:59:23 I didn't have to bring it to the police to make them aware that there is a fake $100 bill circulating.
00:59:28 All right. I understand that.
00:59:29 I would leave that--I would leave that there.
00:59:31 However, I have a question that I'm asking for the third time, that you seem to not be able to multitask or to remember questions that people ask,
00:59:39 so you're just deliberately avoiding it.
00:59:41 Where and what is the whereabouts of this WPC that was arrested?
00:59:46 But you--
00:59:47 You realize I'm not telling you because there are some other issues I cannot tell you.
00:59:52 All right, gentlemen, we must watch our breath.
00:59:54 We must watch our breath.
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01:00:47 [music]
01:00:56 So you have big plans for the year, eh?
01:00:59 Trip in July, birthday in November, and fet after fet this carnival.
01:01:05 But you know what is stop plans?
01:01:07 A $22,500 fine.
01:01:12 You know what else could really stop your plans?
01:01:15 Five years imprisonment and suspension on your license for three years.
01:01:21 Don't drink and drive.
01:01:23 [glass shattering]
01:01:25 [music]
01:01:36 All right.
01:01:37 Before we introduce this feature here, and I'm going to be very short, but congratulations to the officers who were on patrol on the avenue on Saturday.
01:01:45 I was there on Saturday, and there were a lot of police officers on the scene.
01:01:51 That is not important. Speaking to people, searching vehicles, carrying out investigations.
01:01:57 So good evening to all of you officers.
01:02:00 So there was a traffic exercise in the Woodbrook area with officers from the Western Division.
01:02:05 Let's go to that.
01:02:06 And that's Senior Superintendent Mr. Henry.
01:02:08 Yes.
01:02:09 [music]
01:02:18 Pleasant to be here, ma'am. How are you today?
01:02:20 Do you know why I called you over, ma'am?
01:02:22 No, I don't know.
01:02:24 Okay. Well, what happened?
01:02:26 Between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., you are not allowed to take a right turn on that corner there, ma'am.
01:02:32 All right. So may I see your license, please?
01:02:35 [music]
01:03:00 This sign states no right turn between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday to Friday, except public holidays and weekends.
01:03:09 But a lot of motorists tend to get caught breaching the sign on a daily basis.
01:03:16 A lot of excuses, mostly not from on this side, from south, from quite in the east, we didn't see the sign.
01:03:24 So my advice to motorists entering the Port of Spain area, especially down on this side, entering Woodbrook and the Copper Road,
01:03:33 please pay attention because from the time you enter Bellesmides Street and you watch up to your right, the sign can clearly be seen.
01:03:41 So please, don't get caught.
01:03:44 [music]
01:03:46 I observe, sir, that right now, because of the motion, you are in a straight line.
01:03:51 [inaudible]
01:04:01 Over your shoulder, you are still committing the offense of not wearing a seat belt.
01:04:05 [music]
01:04:07 I just explained to you, right? Seat belt is a lap and shoulder.
01:04:11 [music]
01:04:21 [inaudible]
01:04:24 You have 15 days to pay or you have 15 days in which you can contest.
01:04:28 15 days?
01:04:29 15 days, so you can contest the ticket.
01:04:31 If you feel you are wrongfully accused, you can go before the court and you can plead your case.
01:04:36 [inaudible]
01:04:42 But you would have just admitted to me that you would have moved the phone from one place to the next.
01:04:47 And it was off.
01:04:48 Right, but within moving the phone, you have to hold the phone to move it.
01:04:51 And the offense is driving while holding or using.
01:04:54 So if he wasn't using and he was moving, that means you would have held the phone to move it.
01:04:58 I know you're wrong. I don't think it's the right way.
01:05:00 [inaudible]
01:05:11 However, sir, upon inspection of your documents, I realized that your driving estimate would have expired.
01:05:16 Right?
01:05:18 [music]
01:05:23 In addition to that, once your permit is expired, your insurance, which would expire on the 19th of March.
01:05:31 No, no, no.
01:05:32 It's supposed to expire on the 19th of March.
01:05:34 It becomes null and void because this has expired.
01:05:38 So once your driving permit expires, your insurance becomes expired also.
01:05:43 So you can be ticketed for failing to present.
01:05:48 Right?
01:05:49 However, I will be issued only for this event today.
01:05:53 So you need to get this right as well, because if you are stuck again, you will be issued after inspection also for failing to present a valid insurance.
01:06:02 Right, sir?
01:06:03 [music]
01:06:07 So we had two police officers who were speaking in this video here.
01:06:13 And I note the professionalism of the police officers.
01:06:19 I note their tone, and that tone is very, very important.
01:06:27 So although that there were transgressions by some of the motorists, but the officers were still trying to explain, and their tone wasn't a loud tone.
01:06:44 It was two people having a discussion.
01:06:47 And no one can have an argument with the tone of those officers.
01:06:53 Let me ask you this.
01:06:54 A police officer is a person in authority, right?
01:06:57 Yes.
01:06:58 So you are coming down the road.
01:06:59 If I said to you, answer me, I want to.
01:07:02 So Marlon, you're coming down the road.
01:07:03 Pull aside.
01:07:05 You see?
01:07:06 Pull aside.
01:07:07 Now, that's asking you something.
01:07:08 You see where you're going?
01:07:09 Pull aside.
01:07:10 Marlon, let me tell you something.
01:07:11 That authority comes from here sometimes, and it has nothing to do with the attitude of the police.
01:07:15 So can you pull aside, please?
01:07:16 You're trying to shout at me.
01:07:17 Pull aside.
01:07:18 You understand what I'm saying?
01:07:19 If I said, sir, pull aside, please, you're trying to shout at me.
01:07:22 But I'm not shouting.
01:07:24 You understand what I'm saying?
01:07:26 You all have a tendency to want to break down the police officer into this.
01:07:30 Could you hear me?
01:07:32 [LAUGHTER]
01:07:34 We're doing a routine check.
01:07:37 And that is absolutely not it.
01:07:39 That is absolutely not it.
01:07:40 You tell me.
01:07:41 You tell me.
01:07:42 You want to break down the police officer.
01:07:43 Sir, could you pull aside, please?
01:07:44 You're shouting at me.
01:07:45 Was I shouting at you?
01:07:46 Well, sir, I apologize.
01:07:47 Could I please have your documents?
01:07:49 You're still shouting at me.
01:07:50 And we move on.
01:07:51 You see?
01:07:52 So I took you away from that.
01:07:54 I apologize, sir.
01:07:55 I've already taken blame for your stupidity.
01:07:57 I'm not going to tell him or her that.
01:07:59 That you're stupid.
01:08:00 But you understand what I've done?
01:08:02 So I've taken it away from him or her again.
01:08:06 And I'm dealing with my business.
01:08:08 And this is what they do sometimes, you know, members of the public, especially those who --
01:08:12 And most of the time, someone behaving like that, something is wrong.
01:08:15 We have seen that over the years.
01:08:17 A person who comes, you say, good night, officer.
01:08:19 How are you?
01:08:20 Good, good.
01:08:21 Officer, you're looking sharp.
01:08:22 I say, thanks very much, man.
01:08:23 I always look sharp.
01:08:24 Sometimes I just feel past.
01:08:25 And all the kind of small talk we do, we do, we search, we do all as well as reach home safely.
01:08:30 You understand what I'm saying?
01:08:32 But an officer needs to learn and know how to adapt.
01:08:38 Of course.
01:08:39 So you know how I drop it.
01:08:41 Right.
01:08:42 If you come in an aggressive manner, you're going to get that --
01:08:44 So on the highway.
01:08:45 So on the highway, Mr. Hopkins, let me just get to the end.
01:08:48 On the highway, with cars moving about the place, horn blowing, everything.
01:08:51 Yeah.
01:08:52 Pull aside, Mr. Hopkinson.
01:08:54 Pull aside.
01:08:55 Let's go to our place.
01:08:56 But why is it you're saying that all of these officers, they have fine voices like that?
01:09:01 No, they want us to speak like that.
01:09:03 I say, pull aside, Mr. Hopkinson, pull aside.
01:09:06 I shout at them, but they're on the highway.
01:09:08 What's the anxiety about?
01:09:11 I catch you.
01:09:13 I finally catch you.
01:09:15 Being authoritative doesn't have to be weak.
01:09:20 It doesn't have to be talking in shrill tones.
01:09:24 I'm not saying that.
01:09:25 You haven't been to any military camp?
01:09:28 Wait.
01:09:29 Have you ever been to any military camp?
01:09:31 To the what?
01:09:32 Military camp.
01:09:33 No.
01:09:34 What are you going there for?
01:09:35 You think the drill instructor is to talk to the officers?
01:09:39 That's two different things, Alexander.
01:09:41 Mr. Hopkinson, he's preparing you for the outside world.
01:09:43 That's two different things.
01:09:45 That's what the problem is.
01:09:46 That's two different things.
01:09:47 If they said do that to you in TV6, you'd have never been so weak and putrid.
01:09:51 Let's take a break.
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01:10:33 This is Mary.
01:10:39 Mary has bills to pay and takes a chance parking in front of the building at the no parking sign.
01:10:46 Mary returns to her car and this is what happens.
01:10:51 Mary decides to call when she's five minutes away to let her daughter know that she is close by.
01:11:03 But Mary forgot one thing.
01:11:08 Second ticket for the day. I don't know. I really don't know. Well, I tell you.
01:11:12 After two tickets, Mary just isn't paying attention to her speed.
01:11:18 You saw a face, but you know that vaccine is like 15 kilometers.
01:11:22 You have to test, but you have 15 years to go and test.
01:11:25 It's a short hour. Look at all the people passing. You haven't seen them.
01:11:28 You haven't seen me, right?
01:11:30 You two are rude. Get out. Get out.
01:11:32 Don't be like Mary.
01:11:34 Obey the laws of the rude.
01:11:37 A message from the TTPS.
01:11:40 Police officers are expected to remain professional at all times, regardless of what they are confronted with.
01:12:00 I want to show you something and give me your opinion before I go further into it.
01:12:06 Now this is what you are about to see.
01:12:08 Officers from the Central Division, Southern Division.
01:12:15 Pay attention.
01:12:17 There's a particular person making checks to police officers.
01:12:22 And when he sees the opportunity, he's on display.
01:12:28 Now let me tell that gentleman this.
01:12:31 There are some persons who you will have to hesitate in your mind and actions to do that to him.
01:12:38 Let us be real.
01:12:40 Let me show you what I'm speaking about and then we'll have it addressed.
01:12:43 Take a look at it.
01:12:45 So Marlon, you're driving on your way home with you and your family.
01:12:53 What is this baby doing here?
01:12:57 He was doing that continuously on the roadway.
01:13:01 What is that? Is that any house, trees, land there?
01:13:06 And that is what he's doing right now.
01:13:08 Who is doing what to who?
01:13:09 The Maxi man is doing that constantly to the driver.
01:13:13 Because they had an issue where he was issued.
01:13:18 And he's not taking it anymore.
01:13:21 He seems like he's trying to piss the police.
01:13:28 Oh really?
01:13:29 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:13:30 It seems like he wants to get the police in a frame of mind to respond.
01:13:37 But why didn't they?
01:13:38 No, the police are holding his composure.
01:13:40 But I'm telling you this, Mr. Hopkinson, not everybody is willing to accept this.
01:13:45 Now, let me say this.
01:13:48 This person is really from the New Grant area, this Maxi thing.
01:13:54 PCJ2388.
01:14:01 You see, they want to do the wrong thing.
01:14:03 And when they are confronted by law enforcement,
01:14:06 they want to individualize the situation.
01:14:10 And I don't know if you're trying to drive fear into people,
01:14:12 but there are some persons who have no fear.
01:14:15 My brethren.
01:14:17 There are some persons who operate without fear.
01:14:20 Now, I have no problem with a man thinking it.
01:14:24 When you start to do it, that is my problem with you.
01:14:27 Not any and anybody will accept that.
01:14:30 And now, if the police was to challenge you,
01:14:35 you will come out with some other statement if you are in fact able to do that.
01:14:41 Police officers are there doing their job.
01:14:43 It's your responsibility to behave reckless.
01:14:46 It's you. If you want to do that, you can do that.
01:14:48 Our duty is to enforce the law.
01:14:50 And if you breach the law, we'll enforce the law.
01:14:53 And if you want to take it personal, well, hey, so be it.
01:14:57 But if someone is driving on the road and they do that to somebody
01:15:02 and they respond in a particular way,
01:15:04 understanding the current climate that we have.
01:15:07 All right.
01:15:08 Let's now look at the importance of wearing seatbelts.
01:15:11 Oh, Lord.
01:15:12 Now, keep your eyes on this video.
01:15:15 Keep your eyes on the wall.
01:15:16 Yeah.
01:15:17 And look.
01:15:19 Emphasize.
01:15:20 What I said, empathize.
01:15:22 No?
01:15:24 Emphasize the importance of seatbelts.
01:15:27 All right?
01:15:29 You know, that's a good idea.
01:15:30 What?
01:15:31 I was telling Jackie that someone was asking us if we have officers that will do sign language.
01:15:36 Sign language?
01:15:37 Yeah, that probably you can bring here and share with everybody.
01:15:40 Whoa!
01:15:41 The things I just said, I don't know if they're real.
01:15:43 You all saw this?
01:15:44 Let's see it again, Jackie.
01:15:46 Look from the right to the left.
01:15:50 He came from far, you know, what is it?
01:15:51 Yeah.
01:15:52 Look, look, look.
01:15:53 So it's a car that is spinning.
01:15:55 I believe that's maybe the bumper that flew out.
01:15:59 Was he on the trail or in that vehicle, right?
01:16:01 Because he looks like he came with great haste.
01:16:04 Yeah.
01:16:05 So let's see it again if we can.
01:16:08 It went so fast both times.
01:16:12 So keep your eyes to the right.
01:16:15 It's not local.
01:16:18 All right.
01:16:19 Go ahead, Jackie.
01:16:20 Go ahead.
01:16:21 Go ahead.
01:16:22 So that's an individual.
01:16:23 This is not a local video.
01:16:24 We just thought that we would show you.
01:16:26 Now, if he was sitting in the vehicle.
01:16:27 To show you the importance of wearing the seatbelt.
01:16:29 If he was sitting in the vehicle, we suggest that he should have had on the seatbelt.
01:16:33 And if you're on the trail of that vehicle, remember that they are, well, in Triantafilope
01:16:38 we have laws treating without carrying persons under the trail.
01:16:42 So at the end of the day, be careful.
01:16:44 Too much RPAs on the nation's road.
01:16:47 Yeah, boy.
01:16:48 We saw one down at the Brown Lara stadium over the weekend.
01:16:52 A place known to have them, you know, ever so often for the year.
01:16:56 Sometimes we get two, three, four down on that location there.
01:16:59 So it seems that.
01:17:00 You all love the speed.
01:17:01 Yeah, we are out here in our numbers, but persons are trying to beat the system.
01:17:05 As soon as they pass the officers and you all, you all, they come in with great speed.
01:17:10 And then you all give them lights, indicated that police is ahead.
01:17:13 Five-O, Five-O.
01:17:15 You all killed the man.
01:17:17 You know why?
01:17:18 Because we could have stopped him and probably prevent that from happening.
01:17:21 You all killed him.
01:17:22 Good evening, caller.
01:17:23 Good afternoon, Chief.
01:17:24 Yes.
01:17:25 Good afternoon, Mr. Dibna.
01:17:28 Good afternoon.
01:17:29 Yes, sir.
01:17:30 Go ahead, sir.
01:17:31 Mr. Dibna, I would like to compliment the police.
01:17:34 I'm here.
01:17:35 Go ahead.
01:17:36 I would like to compliment the police on the exercise this morning.
01:17:42 What they are for parking this morning.
01:17:45 At least we will be in public.
01:17:47 We are a little more secure now.
01:17:49 And in terms of the something that's being done.
01:17:52 The other hand is that I will, I don't have much time because in less than two minutes, however,
01:17:57 I would like to again call on the shut down social media.
01:18:04 We will be inconvenienced, yes.
01:18:06 But shut it down for like two months or three months, let us get and you will see a difference in crime in this country.
01:18:13 That is the only means available to us right now.
01:18:16 I think we need to do that.
01:18:18 And quickly, the other point is, the other person in terms of Randall Burroughs, in terms of where people had a one-on-one with him.
01:18:26 And people will go to his office and sit down and wait to see him.
01:18:31 And I remember with the bullock arm with us.
01:18:33 The woman came and sat down there until Vandy came back in the evening, four or five o'clock in the morning.
01:18:40 The other person is Johnny Abraham.
01:18:42 He had that charisma where people would more or less want to speak with him and give him information.
01:18:49 There's nobody in the police service right now a person could turn to and feel comfortable because if it were for the police station,
01:18:56 the possibility exists that with social media, they might have been shot.
01:19:02 So I am saying to you that we need to build a relationship with the public.
01:19:10 And we need to do that because we're antagonizing the public.
01:19:15 And as Marlon just said, people are afraid to come forward even if they see something or know something.
01:19:21 And because of social media, you're faced all over the place and everybody knows everything before you even reach home.
01:19:27 So social media is the cause of what we are weeping today.
01:19:32 If people really want to do something about crime, suspend it.
01:19:36 And if they give it up totally, suspend it.
01:19:39 Let us put certain systems in place.
01:19:41 And the best thing we can do is to keep this man sent, check with the police, the commissioner, police.
01:19:48 I mean, you can check the towers and from the towers you will know and you can narrow it down and whatever it is and you can know who that person is.
01:19:55 These things must not be allowed to continue.
01:19:57 Anyway, I told you I have two minutes.
01:19:59 So I think I'll use it up already.
01:20:01 Thank you very much, sir.
01:20:03 Let's go to a break, man.
01:20:04 Let's go.
01:20:05 [Break]
01:20:13 Cruise into pleasure.
01:20:16 Cruise into flavor.
01:20:21 Cruise into celebration.
01:20:26 Cruise into business.
01:20:29 Cruise into the sunset.
01:20:33 Cruise in hotel and yachting center.
01:20:39 Cruise into a whole new world.
01:20:42 Thank you, members of the media.
01:20:46 This concludes our weekly press briefing.
01:20:49 As the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service continues to protect and serve with pride,
01:20:56 we are calling on all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago to get on board with us to ensure that everyone is able to live in a crime-free society.
01:21:08 Are you on board?
01:21:10 This is my country and I am on board.
01:21:15 I am on board with the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
01:21:19 Let us save the youth of the nation.
01:21:21 Get on board.
01:21:22 Crime affects all of us.
01:21:24 Children, communities and the country as a whole.
01:21:28 Supporting crime victims and working with the police service, I am on board.
01:21:33 This is my country and I am on board.
01:21:37 My name is Nikolai Blackmon and I am on board with the TTPS.
01:21:41 Vision On Mission is proud to partner with the TTPS because crime prevention is everybody's business.
01:21:49 We are the National Congress of Incorporated Spiritual Baptist Organizations of Trinidad and Tobago and we are on board with the TTPS in its fight against crime.
01:21:58 I am a farmer. This is my country and I am on board.
01:22:03 I am Charles Jason Gordon, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Portisby.
01:22:08 I am on board in the TTPS fight against crime.
01:22:12 We are all on board.
01:22:14 Welcome back everyone.
01:22:28 Alright, Mr. Abkhundsa, today that gentleman just spoke about the social media situation in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:22:42 Now, I think we should remove the word suspend and put regulate.
01:22:49 Because we need to do that now more than ever.
01:22:54 Too many times persons could put up what they want on the social media and because there are some persons living in it, living in it, actually living in it.
01:23:02 Some persons that's all they do all day.
01:23:05 Can't even sleep any night because you want to see who put up what.
01:23:09 And all these things, so you are living in it and then you would say, you see what this person say?
01:23:14 I frightened. You see what this person say? I frightened.
01:23:16 What I am saying is this.
01:23:18 If this is regulated, then we will have more control over it.
01:23:23 And I often tell you, I told you before what my Chinese friend said.
01:23:27 They have regulated this to such an extent that persons are using it for new innovations and all of that.
01:23:33 While we use it for mischief and chaos and hatred of each other and all of that.
01:23:38 Up to now in Trinidad and Tobago we still have persons putting up videos with guns.
01:23:43 Not props, real guns.
01:23:45 Doing all kind of antics and all kind of things and sending threats to persons.
01:23:49 And yet, nothing.
01:23:53 Not a word, nothing.
01:23:56 So then, the population becomes afraid when they see what they see.
01:24:02 And as that fear continues it is expanded to another person and extended to another person.
01:24:07 So the whole place is fearful except for carnival.
01:24:11 You don't want to come outside their homes except for carnival.
01:24:16 I think the time has come for us to regulate that social media platform.
01:24:22 So that persons cannot get away with these kind of crazy things that they do or say on the social media.
01:24:29 There should be law enforcement, law enforcement where the social media is concerned.
01:24:35 Because again, when one person put up one little thing it panics the whole place.
01:24:40 And yet he continues and he can do it again.
01:24:44 The time has come to change again.
01:24:46 I believe that there needs to be some level of regulation.
01:24:52 Some way to police it.
01:24:54 But not in the way that you are speaking about regulating.
01:24:59 Because as a wise man once said, you need to know who is who in the zoo.
01:25:05 And if you try to introduce certain mechanisms
01:25:13 just because it is not being exposed doesn't mean it is not happening.
01:25:18 And I believe that there is value in knowing what people are involved in.
01:25:28 That is how I will put it.
01:25:30 Alright, well at the end of the day Mr. Hopkinson, some form of control is necessary at this time.
01:25:36 Yes.
01:25:37 It certainly will eliminate the fears that persons have with respect to what is happening.
01:25:42 Sometimes persons go to the extreme.
01:25:44 Yes.
01:25:45 There are some countries, you know, persons look at things and learn from.
01:25:48 And others persons take things and try to do the same thing with it.
01:25:53 So at the end of the day, all is well.
01:25:56 Well, we hope that when you go tonight you will be careful.
01:25:59 Those who are going out tonight, you know the carnival thing has started somewhat.
01:26:02 And we ask you to be extremely careful, be vigilant as much as you could.
01:26:06 Yes, lock all doors and windows at home.
01:26:08 And if they come, greet them.
01:26:13 Once you don't have the gift given by Marlon, you could sharpen your minds.
01:26:19 You want to say me?
01:26:21 Yes, sharpen your minds.
01:26:23 Alright?
01:26:24 And let them know that you are willing to defend your family by any lawful means necessary.
01:26:29 The time has come.
01:26:31 Yes?
01:26:32 It is on you.
01:26:33 We are having a morning.
01:26:34 I tell you.
01:26:35 But it is a big one.
01:26:36 It is a big one, baby.
01:26:38 Oh, we have a couple of seconds?
01:26:40 Yes.
01:26:41 There are some men who have in their possession at this time a young lady.
01:26:45 She is big and she is red skinned.
01:26:48 But she is only 14.
01:26:50 Go and study that.
01:26:52 For those who have the young lady who is only 14 years old.
01:26:55 Carry back her home.
01:26:57 Immediately, you know.
01:26:58 14 years.
01:26:59 Send her back home.
01:27:00 14 years.
01:27:01 One phone.
01:27:02 Repeat tonight at 11.30.
01:27:03 Repeat tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock.
01:27:05 But TV6 News comes up next.
01:27:07 See you at 6 o'clock in the morning.
01:27:09 Bye bye everybody.
01:27:12 14 years.
01:27:13 One phone.
01:27:14 Repeat tomorrow morning at 11.30.
01:27:15 14 years.
01:27:16 One phone.
01:27:17 Repeat tomorrow morning at 11.30.
01:27:18 14 years.
01:27:19 One phone.
01:27:20 Repeat tomorrow morning at 11.30.
01:27:21 14 years.
01:27:22 One phone.
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