00:00There continues to be a debate in and outside of the political arena about an
00:04ongoing audit of the nation's premier intelligence gathering unit, the
00:09Strategic Services Agency, but the government says its work continues. But
00:14there are also other units focused on gathering intelligence in Trinidad and
00:18Tobago, and the U.S. Embassy in Port of Spain says they are to benefit from
00:23training from four members of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA,
00:28International Training Team, and the U.S. Embassy's DEA Port of Spain Country
00:34Office. The training session, which began on Monday, is specifically focused on
00:38intelligence collection and analysis. The U.S. Embassy said 30 officers of the
00:43Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, the transnational organized crime unit,
00:47the Special Investigations Unit, Trinidad and Tobago Customs and Excise,
00:51the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, and the Trinidad and Tobago Prison Service
00:55will be learning best practices in global drug trafficking trends,
00:59intelligence, telecommunications, document exploitation, basic first-aid
01:05interview techniques, and critical thinking from the Washington, D.C.-based
01:09training team. The U.S. Embassy quoted U.S. Ambassador Candace Bond as having said
01:15that she is proud to announce this important initiative from the DEA.
01:20Ambassador Bond also said improving citizen security depends on securing
01:25convictions, which in turn depends on the professionalism and integrity of
01:30intelligence collection and analysis law enforcement agencies deploy. While
01:35responding to a question from TV6 News at an event on Monday, National
01:39Security Minister Fitzgerald Hines said the U.S. is an international partner
01:43which Trinidad and Tobago shares intelligence with.
01:46Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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