00:00First of all, it is really sad to know that we are having this sort of brazen killing
00:06that is taking place and at the end you find innocent people also being affected.
00:12In recent years, the number of children being impacted by these incidents has increased,
00:18some of them losing their lives in the Kalas onslaught.
00:21As the latest incident, which resulted in a double murder and the injury of three people
00:26including a four-year-old child, outside of Roxanne's Learning and Child Care Centre
00:31in Mova, is believed to be linked to gang activity, DCP Junior Benjamin has this to
00:37say.
00:38To the Antobago Police Service, we continue to deal with gang violence by, again, having
00:43our officers do what we call effective intelligence and also holistic investigations so that we
00:50are looking into that, even as we speak, we have our officers looking at every lease,
00:55they're looking at the CCTV footages and all the different things that are going to
00:59help us in this situation.
01:01Benjamin says the police cannot be everywhere and he's pleading with the public to come
01:05forward with information that they may have.
01:08According to the DCP, police have looked at a crime trend over a five-year period and
01:13a scientific framework has been put in place.
01:16And we have our geofencing operations that are going to be coming on very soon and that
01:21in itself we believe is going to even help, even as we seek to apply that to the crime
01:27situation, you're going to see some new things taking shape.
01:31Meanwhile, MP for Port of Spain South, Keith Scotland, expresses concern about the impact
01:37the shooting can have on the preschoolers.
01:39They must be traumatised, that is not the indelible mark I would want in the psyche
01:46of those preschoolers.
01:48So I will speak to the representative, MP Lyons, I will speak to Minister Hines and
01:58I think at some point in time, as we did in Mangaroes, not in Mangaroes, but Rose Hill,
02:05sorry, something, you know, we may have to make an intervention.
02:09Scotland expects that Social Development Minister Donna Cox may have a pronouncement to make
02:15on the state services providing assistance with any trauma that may have occurred.
02:21Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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