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  • 1 year ago
Police will examine all possible leads following the daylight murders outside of a pre-school in Morvant, in which a four year old was injured. That's the assurance coming from Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of Operations Junior Benjamin who says, gang violence is being tackled.


Alicia Boucher has more in this report.
Transcript
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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