EAGLE EYE ROLLING OUT IN TPRC

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Operation Eagle Eye is being rolled out across the Tunapuna /Piarco Regional Corporation, as the municipal police seek to increase their surveillance of the district. The announcement comes a week after the Northern Division confirmed the discovery of a criminal surveillance network. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00 Tunapuna Piako Regional Cooperation Chairman Josiah Austin says the goal of

00:06 Operation Eagle Eye is to have eyes on key areas across the district.

00:11 Through the station council, our municipal police and the TTPS, there are several cameras

00:19 that are going up that are monitored by the Tunapuna Police Station and also

00:25 soon you will see our municipal police station joining in that effort. We are

00:30 now getting the screens and so forth and we will be going into several districts.

00:34 We are going to have a makoia food village very soon and we're going to

00:38 start that pilot program there and then you will find us going into the Korra

00:43 Valley. We have some plans to go into Karapu, Aripu and so forth. So we'll be

00:48 monitoring the dumping sites and the criminal activity in those areas.

00:53 Municipal police will be trained to man the command center. There's a feed to the

00:58 Tunapuna Police Station, a feed to our municipal station and another

01:05 site. So with the complement of staff we have in the municipal police staff, that

01:11 is the police officers that we have there, we will have several of them

01:15 trained in monitoring and surveillance. So it's something that was done with the

01:21 Tunapuna TTPS and now it will be done with our municipal police.

01:26 Tunapuna in particular has been rife with gang activity but the chairman says

01:31 things have settled down a bit. Based on statistics we've seen several murders in

01:38 the past but not so recent. You've seen a curve in that. There were some

01:44 robberies recently but the Tunapuna TTPS were very quick on the scene to

01:50 recover stolen vehicle and so forth. So I mean we have full confidence in the

01:56 response team and our municipal police we're just adding to that. The EGOLI

02:01 initiative is spearheaded by the Tunapuna Station Council in collaboration

02:06 with the TTPS and the business community. Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.

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