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02:51Welcome to Beyond the Tape, I'm your host, Mark Bessant.
02:54It's Thursday and we are joined today by ASP Martin from the Northeastern Division.
02:59We want to welcome you, sir. How are you?
03:01Thank you very much. Welcome, Mark. Welcome to Indiana and Tobago.
03:04How are things on your side in terms of the Northeastern Division and how have the police been?
03:11I know that is a very tough division to work,
03:14and I know there have been a number of things happening over the last couple of weeks and months in that area,
03:19and how have you all fared in subduing some of that criminal activity?
03:24Well, the Northeastern Division is a very interesting division.
03:27Personally, I was born and grew up in that division.
03:29I was born and grew up in Mover, went to school in Mover and Barataria.
03:32And I want to say that I think we have a very good relationship with the members of the public.
03:36Just yesterday, actually, in terms of the Northeastern Division,
03:39we had a town meeting in Blanchichez and we continue to have the support of the persons in that area.
03:44We have some pictures that I will probably show later on.
03:46And of course, we have the support of the persons in Mover.
03:48You know, Barataria speaks about the highway and we would have had some very tragic accidents,
03:52most recently over the weekend.
03:54But we continue to support in terms of community partnership to reduce the fear of crime and the acts of crime in the community.
03:59Yeah, as you talk about that, the incidents on the roads,
04:03have you seen a prevalence of that in the last couple of weeks?
04:07People, you know, being knocked down or killed in road traffic accidents.
04:14There was one just, I think, yesterday morning involving an elderly lady in the West Moorings area
04:20where she would have lost control of her car and she succumbed to injuries at St. James Hospital.
04:27So, obviously, people need to exercise more caution on the roadways.
04:33And as we go into the Christmas season, we can't emphasize that enough.
04:38Well, actually, as I would have heard Mr. Abrams say some years ago,
04:41leave early, drive slowly, reach safely.
04:45Because one incident is too many.
04:47Surely, surely.
04:49So, we're going to go to our headlines and we'll have a better discussion about this and other things after this.
05:39So, those are some of the headlines within the last 24 hours.
05:42And one of the headlines there speaks of the wrecking resuming in Port of Spain.
05:47And, you know, it's been a while since we saw the wreckers out in Port of Spain.
05:52That's correct. During the period of COVID, the use of the wreckers would have sort of decreased
05:57because of the challenges of COVID and whatnot.
05:59But we know that we have a lot of illegal parking.
06:03And, you know, around Christmas time, you know, there's always some drama.
06:07Somebody parks somewhere they shouldn't park or they feel that they're in the right.
06:11And the wrecker comes to take their car.
06:13And there's this whole social media hub of people filming and saying that the police is wrong
06:18or the wrecker is wrong or vice versa.
06:21And, you know, there's always some drama.
06:23And, you know, around Christmas time, you know, there's always some drama.
06:26And, you know, around Christmas time, you know, there's always some drama.
06:30or vice versa.
06:32So I'm sure you want to encourage people to do the right thing and park in designated areas.
06:37And comply with the laws.
06:39Because it's not only a traffic offence alone that is committed.
06:42But while a traffic offence is committed, it creates that opportunity for other offences to be committed.
06:46Because remember, there's a lot of people.
06:48It's difficult to move over.
06:50Even if a police vehicle wants to render assistance, it's stuck in traffic.
06:53So that's why we ask persons to conform with the traffic laws and to do the right thing.
06:58And surely, too, because of the area's commercial activity will increase over the next couple of weeks.
07:04Not just in Port of Spain, you have Chaguanas, San Fernando, Arima and so on.
07:08You would want to encourage people to use the car parks in the periphery.
07:11So that less congestion of traffic, especially in the area like Dung Dung, Port of Spain and Chaguanas and San Fernando,
07:18you have people trying to find parks that virtually will cause more traffic for their convenience, obviously.
07:26In addition to the fact that when there are too many vehicles congested,
07:28it's easy for somebody to bump into your vehicle, for somebody to scratch your vehicle.
07:32And it's difficult to know.
07:33So that when you conform with the laws, now the traffic will flow freer,
07:37as well as they'll have greater control in terms of the people on the streets and those type of things.
07:41We're certainly hopeful that everybody listening out there will be mindful of that going into the Christmas season.
07:48So we want to take you to one of our first videos that you would have seen, captured in the headlines here.
07:55And we've been talking about this for the last few weeks,
07:58about when you go to a business place and you park, whether it be a bank, a supermarket and so on,
08:04when you come out, you have to be vigilant about the people that are around you and of course, just the general area.
08:11And obviously, this is a trend that officers have been seeing in various areas of Trinidad and Tobago,
08:18where there are people actually standing outside waiting for you to get into your vehicle before the attack.
08:24And let's take a look here.
08:27So you see a gentleman here, he's gingerly walking around, has a cigarette and so on,
08:32and a lady is walking towards her vehicle.
08:37And then we see him dip into his pocket with something he has and takes out what appears to be a weapon.
08:45Pushes the woman aside.
08:48And then I think her 15-year-old daughter was in the front passenger seat,
08:54and she was able to come out before the guy drove off with her vehicle.
08:59And this happened outside a Chinese restaurant in Rochard Road, Douglas Road, Pinal, sometime in the last 24 to 48 hours.
09:09Your advice, sir?
09:11Most unfortunate, but I thank God that there was no loss to life.
09:14We always encourage persons to look around their surroundings.
09:17As they come out of your business place, you're going into the business place,
09:20look over your right, look over your left, and continue to pay attention to persons.
09:24Because there are a lot of persons who look for soft targets.
09:28And if there's no guardian or no defender there, and they believe they have the opportunity,
09:33that's the reason that persons commit crime.
09:35The absence of a protector, a soft target, and they have the opportunity.
09:38So we encourage persons to be alert.
09:40And at the end of the day, we have to be our brother's keeper as well,
09:43because I am sure that there are other persons who would have been seeing what's happening there,
09:47and sometimes people just turn a blind eye.
09:49And luckily, in this instance, the CCC TV footage from the restaurant picks up the suspect's face,
09:57which will obviously assist police in apprehending the suspect in the shortest possible period.
10:05And I'm hopeful that the owner of the vehicle is also recovered in short measure.
10:11And this gentleman on your screen here, well, you know, they don't say gentleman,
10:16they say this assailant, this suspect on your screen here.
10:20We are hopeful that somebody with information will come forward and provide it to the police
10:25so that he can spend his time for Christmas behind bars.
10:29And Mark, I want to emphasize that statement to me.
10:32Persons with information, whether it be in terms of this violation or any violation, any offense,
10:36come forward and share that information with the police.
10:39Yes, definitely. And of course, you know, that is the way that we are going to get things done.
10:44One hand on clock.
10:45Must have the community partnership between the TTPS and the members of the public.
10:49Certainly.
10:50We want to move to some very sad news now involving an 11-year-old girl by the name of Anna Love Tate.
10:59Apparently last night she was at her home at Paul Castillo Street in Malabar, Rima.
11:07And she was alone at home at the time.
11:09This is her house in the area there.
11:12And a fire, apparently, they're still trying to ascertain the cause, broke out.
11:17Fire officers responded, obviously, to the fire.
11:22And they were able to rescue the 11-year-old girl from the house,
11:28but she had sustained bad burns to her body.
11:32And apparently she would have passed away sometime later.
11:37So surely it's certainly very sad.
11:40Happened around 8 o'clock last night in the Malabar area there.
11:44An 11-year-old girl, Anna Love Tate, passed away after being trapped in the house for a fire.
11:52That's very sad.
11:53You know, I am also the father of an 11-year-old girl.
11:56And I know sometimes at that age they sound so intelligent and they act so mature,
12:00but we have to remember that they are still a child.
12:02And my mother, God rest her soul, used to always tell me, don't play with matches.
12:06Don't play with matches.
12:07And I don't know the situation, but I'm saying as the adults we have to remember they may look big,
12:11they may talk big, but they will still think as a child.
12:14And we have a responsibility to look out for them,
12:16especially in this season where we are remembering the 16 days of action against domestic violence
12:20that speaks about violence against women and children.
12:22We have to remember in every way let us look out for our women and children and protect them.
12:26Certainly, and as you touch on that, we have the vacation approaching.
12:31And a lot of times parents leave their children at home alone.
12:34And there are incidents, I recall there was an incident about two or three years ago in the Mara Valley
12:39where a fire would have caught around night this time and three children died.
12:45So we are urging parents, of course ASP Martin as well,
12:48urging parents to try and be observant before you leave the house if you have to leave your children.
12:55Give them guidelines, let them know what they should and should not do.
12:58Do not light the stove, do not do this.
13:00Especially if you have an elder child, let that person supervise and look after them
13:06and don't take them out of your sight.
13:08I also want to say, Marcus, not just having an elder child.
13:11Yes.
13:12It would be an offensive if you have children supervising children.
13:16Correct.
13:17So you need to have somebody over the age of 18 years.
13:19Yes, legal.
13:20Supervising the children.
13:21We cannot have a 14-year-old supervising a 4-year-old.
13:23So in as much as, yes, it might be stressed,
13:25you need to either send the children by a responsible adult
13:28or bring a responsible adult to supervise the children.
13:30We cannot leave children unsupervised.
13:33Certainly.
13:34So you know that gun violence has been something that we plagued with here in Trinidad and Tobago
13:41and we've had a high number of homicides related to gun violence
13:46and only last night it seemed that a resident in the Gonzales area in Belmont picked up these sounds.
13:54So we know this area is a rather hot area.
14:19In the last couple of weeks there have been triple murders, double murders and so on.
14:24They shot a guy outside a week after three men were shot two days before that
14:29and there were some other killings a couple of weeks before that
14:32because of increased gang activity in that area.
14:36I remember going into that area for one of the murders
14:41and I came out and then somebody called me and said,
14:44people were watching on the hill, you know.
14:47So, I mean, we're talking about heavy firepower here.
14:52Mark, what I want to say is that many of us would have grown up in the 80s
14:55when there was the movie The Godfather
14:58and they would have romanticized mafia and gang activity.
15:02And even in the early 80s, 90s, you know, a lot of local gangs,
15:05people had a certain measure of respect for their neighbors
15:07and they would have had their own homes and just that.
15:09But the reality is, 2024, a lot of the gang persons involved in gang activity,
15:13they have no respect for their neighbors.
15:15Long time, they may have had a three-story house.
15:17Today, these are a lot of young men with slippers and short pants
15:20and they're living under the grandmother's house.
15:22And the public needs to realize that the gang leader is not their friend.
15:25This is not the days of the 60s, as I said.
15:27This is 2024 and the gang leaders, long time,
15:30they have had a little respect for the old lady in the street, for the child in the road.
15:33But we have to realize the gang members are not their friends
15:36and report the information.
15:38These firearms, there are persons in these communities
15:41who know who are the owner of these firearms.
15:43And we have to understand, as I said, the gang member is not your friend.
15:47This is not Hollywood and Godfather 1, 2, and 3.
15:50This is real world and they are killing men, women, and children.
15:54So please, if you have information about persons who are bringing in firearms,
15:57who have firearms in your community, call the nearest police station.
16:00You don't even have to give your name, but give us the information
16:03and let us work together to increase public safety and community partnership.
16:07Yes, certainly. And you know, a lot of people, those that just put down the guns,
16:11you know, put down the guns, period.
16:13And they are listening, so they know.
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16:16We urge you to put the guns down.
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19:21Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
19:22I'm your host, Marc Bessant, of course,
19:24joined today by ASP Martin from Northeastern Division.
19:30There are a number of things that ASP Martin and his team of officers,
19:34also under Senior Superintendent Melvin Edwards,
19:37have been doing within the Northeastern Division over the last couple of months
19:42trying to quell a number of illicit activities.
19:44I think we were having a discussion about this worrying trend of marketplace on Facebook.
19:52That's correct, Facebook marketplace.
19:55One of the problems we have been having, as you just said, is the Facebook marketplace.
20:00We have had situations where persons would have left Tobago to come to Trinidad to purchase a car.
20:05They would have been shot at, they would have been robbed.
20:07Persons leave South, leave Central to come to purchase a car.
20:10So we want to advise people, please, if you're purchasing through Facebook marketplace,
20:14meet in a public place.
20:16Meet at probably a police station, a bar, not a bar,
20:20but a place where there's a lot of persons congregating.
20:22You could meet maybe by a mall.
20:24You could meet in an educational place.
20:26Pay using a manager's draft.
20:28Pay using a check.
20:30Work with a friend and inform your family or friends of the particulars of the purchase.
20:34Let them know specifically where you are going.
20:36Too many persons have been victims.
20:39We have had about 20 Facebook marketplaces, probably so far for the year,
20:42where persons, as I said, they would have left.
20:44Somebody said meet them in some far place,
20:46and when they go into a bushy area, they take the car, they take the money.
20:50You said 20 Facebook marketplace robberies in the MUVA area, yes?
20:55In the division itself.
20:57In the division itself.
20:58Not just MUVA.
20:59How does those stats compare to perhaps other divisions?
21:03Is it much higher in this area?
21:05Were you able to kind of compare notes with the fraud squad even?
21:08No, I did not do a qualitative analysis or comparison with the other divisions.
21:11Right.
21:12But what I can say, having worked in the Northeastern division,
21:14I found we have been having too many.
21:16And what concerns me is that it is happening,
21:19and members of the public continue to make themselves easy targets.
21:22A person gives you a location, when you are driving through,
21:25you see a lot of bushes, you see a lot of broken down areas,
21:28you see a lot of abandoned houses, and they still continue to drive.
21:30And then somebody comes up, this is a robbery.
21:33They take your car, they take the money that they came to purchase with.
21:36And in some cases they shoot you.
21:38So we are asking persons, please prioritize,
21:40don't just run for a bargain, prioritize safety first.
21:43Of course.
21:44Safety first.
21:45That's most important.
21:46I think Inspector Thomas from the fraud squad had also mentioned
21:49that a couple of weeks ago when he was on the show,
21:53talking about this marketplace and Facebook being a nameless,
21:57faceless criminals operate.
22:00And they catch you with a big deal.
22:03A bargain.
22:04You know, an iPhone for $500, $800.
22:08Or you have something to sell, they are willing to buy it.
22:13Right.
22:14So, Mark, what I want members of the public to understand is
22:16their life is priceless.
22:18And, again, I want to emphasize safety first.
22:21You go with $40,000 to purchase a car from somebody you don't know,
22:24a place you don't know, you lose the $40,000, you lose the car,
22:28and in some cases you could lose your life.
22:30So safety first.
22:32But we have been having some success.
22:34Before we continue, I just want to remind you of the numbers.
22:37623-1711 extensions 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.
22:44There were also some other things that you all have been doing in the
22:47division that you wanted to share with us and, of course, the public.
22:51And how were you able to arrest, I guess, the illicit firearms in that
22:55area, as well as some of the gang-related activity?
22:59That's great.
23:00First of all, I want to say I want to really thank the members of the
23:02Northeastern Division, both in terms of the community as well as the
23:05members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Officers.
23:08Our senior superintendent, Mr. Mervyn Edwards, is in office every
23:11Wednesday from 9 in the morning to about 1 in the afternoon.
23:14We have members of the public who can come and speak with him.
23:16And our phone number is 612-2470, extension 75810.
23:23612-2470, extension 75810.
23:28So with our partnership and with the support of the public, we have been
23:31able to recover over 65 firearms, have been formally recovered.
23:35We have had a 13% reduction in serious reported crimes.
23:39But we continue to have more presence.
23:41One of the things in crime reduction policy is that we're going to have
23:44precision presence and we're going to be proactive.
23:46So we have had over 10,000 patrols, which includes foot, mobile and the
23:50joint army.
23:51We have been having the support of the army and, of course, the Coast
23:54Guard have been coming out day and night and going out with us.
23:57We have also recovered over 90 stolen vehicles.
24:00And, again, we want to encourage people to be careful where they park their
24:03vehicles, be very careful how you secure your vehicles.
24:07We continue to have four police clubs in the division and we have had six
24:13priority offenders.
24:14Six priority offenders arrested and charged for the year.
24:17Now, you talk about the recovery of about 65 firearms, yes?
24:2165 firearms, that's correct.
24:23And that information, of course, it would be reliant, obviously, on the
24:27participation of people in the community to also assist in that venture.
24:33That's correct.
24:34And it gives us information so we can get the necessary warrants.
24:36What percentage would you say would have been helpful in assisting in
24:40recovering 65 of those firearms?
24:43I would say 100% of our success would have been because of the support of the
24:49public.
24:50Because the reality is people have to give us information which we can
24:53transfer into intelligence and then we can act upon it.
24:56So as people share that information with us, I would say because of the
24:59support of the public, we have been able to recover.
25:01And as they continue to support, we will recover more.
25:04Yes, obviously, community engagement and involvement is important when we're
25:08trying to fight crime.
25:10We have a caller on the line.
25:11Caller, good evening.
25:13Good afternoon, Mark.
25:14Good afternoon to the officer.
25:16I have a simple question to the officer.
25:20Are security servicemen now carrying high-powered rifles?
25:27I ask that because your own senior citizen security officer was out
25:35stealing our groceries yesterday and I was surprised.
25:37You quite thought only police could carry them kind of weapons.
25:40How little of it, please?
25:43Personally, I have never seen that.
25:45I know there's a certain guide in terms of the firearms that the security
25:48officers do carry.
25:50Well, I am surprised as well to hear you say that, but I have never seen a
25:53security necessary kind of AR-15, to be honest with you.
25:56I have never seen that.
25:57So it's news to me unless the security firm, I don't think.
26:03I don't know and I don't want to say something that I'm not sure about.
26:05Of course.
26:06I, myself, so I guess we are the caller.
26:08We probably have to kind of, if he calls back, give us information of where is
26:12this place so that ASP Martin and his team of officers can look into it,
26:17of course.
26:18We're going to take a short break and we'll be back.
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29:02Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
29:08I'm your host Marc Besant joined today by A.S.P.
29:12Martin of the Northeastern Division.
29:14And there was a story that we kind of highlighted yesterday on Beyond the Tape and it was also
29:22looked at more in depth in the TV6 News last night involving a woman who was caring for
29:29four children who she claimed was abandoned by their mother since July of this year.
29:37Of course, since then, overnight, the mother, her name is Onisha Nelson-Alexander,
29:45responded on social media to give her side of the story.
29:49So I want you guys to take a listen.
29:53Hi, good night everybody.
29:55I'm Onisha Nelson.
29:57I come here to say my part of the story.
30:01I asked this lady to take care of my children for a short period of time for me to get myself back on foot.
30:11I was going through some issues where my children and I were actually homeless.
30:18As a mother, a single parent, I didn't want to see my children at the side of the road.
30:25So I reached out to her for assistance.
30:28I asked her, she agreed to guardianship the children while I get myself back on foot.
30:39During the procedure, in the last half year, I decided to message her and tell her that I'm coming for the children.
30:49That's when everything went haywire.
30:52I've seen all these posts, I've seen all these TV6 interviews, all these Ian Allen interviews,
30:57stating that I abandoned my children, which is not true.
31:04I honestly reached out to this lady because I trusted her with my children for the second time.
31:16And I carried them there.
31:19I visited there. I sent funds there.
31:24My mother and I, and my four-year-old son, because my mother decided to keep my four-year-old son,
31:31went up there to visit the children, spend the day.
31:35Both of us, both me and her, we went to the school together to get my daughter in school.
31:44My daughter is going to a school in Sandy Grande, closer to her home, until I can get myself back on foot.
31:54This lady is clearly trying to take my children away from me, for what reason, God alone knows.
32:04And the article is stating that I left four children with her.
32:09That is not the truth.
32:10I left three kids with her.
32:13The baby, the one-year-old, I don't know how she got this baby, because I left this baby with his father.
32:22So I can't make a statement of how she ended up with my one-year-old son,
32:28because I knew that I left them in the care with his father.
32:33So this is my regards to what has been published to the public,
32:41clearing my name.
32:43I'm a single parent of five children.
32:47I am trying my best, things tough, but I would never abandon my children.
32:54Not for one day.
32:56Not for one day.
32:58I'm trying to make things better, not for me, but for the future of my children.
33:04Well, certainly the mother of these children, giving her side of the story,
33:10after Miss Hayley Kelly claimed that she dropped off the children, just to give you perspective,
33:17ESP Martin, in North Urupuj, just after Sandy Grande, in July.
33:24And despite pleas and calls made by Miss Kelly, to the mother,
33:29she was not accommodating in coming for the children.
33:33And of course, the mother gives an entirely different story.
33:38Now what's interesting, Mark, is that the mother said,
33:40this is the second time she would have dropped these children by this lady.
33:45And what we have to understand is that people become attached emotionally.
33:50It's not a car you lend somebody and they come back and pick up your car.
33:53So over a period of time, the children would have borne with the woman,
33:56the woman would have borne with the children.
33:58But I'm asking myself the question, where is the father of these children?
34:02Yes, she identified the father of the one-year-old, but she spoke about having five children.
34:07She didn't make these children by herself.
34:09And I want to say again, as we continue to pay attention to the 16 days of action
34:13against domestic violence against women and children,
34:16men have to take their responsibilities.
34:18Where is the father?
34:19She didn't make these children by themselves, no.
34:21We have a culture where people say a deputy is essential
34:24until your wife becomes the deputy.
34:26And that is the reality.
34:27So we have to understand it's not just the woman alone.
34:30The men have a responsibility to take care of the children.
34:33It is sad for the mother, it is sad for the woman she took the children by,
34:37it is sad for the children.
34:38But again, Mark, we are the men, we are the fathers,
34:41and as men ourselves, we have to rise up and take a responsibility,
34:46mind our children.
34:47Even if we may not be in a relationship with the child's mother,
34:50we still have a responsibility to mind that child
34:53until that child becomes an adult and they are able to sustain themselves.
34:56This is a total lose-lose situation.
34:59I see no one coming out of our window here.
35:01I could not have said it better.
35:02I just want to assure you that the mother spoke to one of our journalists a little while ago,
35:07and she is saying that she is making all effort to get her children back
35:11within the next two weeks.
35:13And of course, the Children's Authority sent out a release a short while ago
35:17also indicating that they are working closely to get these children into schools,
35:22the 8 and the 10-year-old,
35:23and to provide whatever support is needed for these children
35:28to get back into that nucleus of a family setting
35:31and to ensure that they are not in any way mentally scarred from this whole situation.
35:39That's great.
35:40And I would even go further and look at the long-term effects of having a broken home.
35:44It becomes easy for these children to grow up
35:46and become attracted to quote-unquote community leaders or gang leaders
35:50and become either victims or perpetrators of crime.
35:53So I want to say to the business community,
35:55not only this family, but wherever you can help,
35:57remember you have a social responsibility
35:59and a moral responsibility to help members of this society.
36:03We have a call on the line.
36:05Caller, good evening.
36:06Yes, listen to Mr. Mark and the inspector.
36:09Now, this is the thing that upsets me very much, you know.
36:12A woman has five children.
36:14Where is the daddy for these children?
36:16Every nine months somebody's woman is making children
36:18and they can't find it.
36:19It's part of the children.
36:20What do you expect them to be, not bandits?
36:22They have no parental guidance.
36:24Wear a tire tube, lady.
36:26You don't tie all your tubes.
36:27Stop making children.
36:29And those children, the Children's Authority,
36:31I don't know if the rules forget children,
36:35but you cannot leave them with any children,
36:37that's the authority, I think.
36:38And the other point is, no child should be burdened, and none.
36:42I left my own home alone.
36:44I don't know if somebody has to be charged for this.
36:46Too many children getting killed by fire.
36:49And pass a law, every house must have a fire extinguisher.
36:53But most people have it in their home
36:55and they don't know how to use it.
36:57Pass a law, every...
36:58Just like how a car must have insurance to come on the road,
37:01every house should have a fire extinguisher.
37:04And show the people how to use it.
37:06Thanks again.
37:08Yes, PM Martin.
37:10I totally agree with the caller.
37:11It's the same points we were raising.
37:13Again, I do not know all the facts.
37:15I don't know if maybe that she had one father for these children
37:18and maybe they died in a car accident last year, I don't know.
37:20But the reality is, men have to bear the responsibility
37:24of raising their children.
37:25That is the reality.
37:26Well, we are hopeful that if the father of this one-year-old child
37:29would like to contact TV6 or Beyond the Tape,
37:32please feel free to reach out to us.
37:35And the fathers of the other children as well.
37:37Yes, that too.
37:38All right, we're going to take a short break and we'll be back.
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40:31Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
40:32I'm your host, Mark Massan,
40:33joined today by ASP Martin from the Northeastern Division.
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40:47So, we were talking earlier about
40:50how we're going to be using the Trinidad Express
40:53and how we're going to be using the Trinidad Express
40:57So, we were talking earlier about
41:00not just the incident with the lady,
41:02but we were also talking about road traffic accidents.
41:06And we, unfortunately, have some video
41:09involving some road traffic accidents.
41:13This was apparently somewhere in the Valencia area,
41:16I think yesterday, where a pedestrian was struck and injured.
41:21And, of course, we have to let the public know
41:25you've got to be more mindful on the roadways.
41:28Speed, especially if you're supposed to be observing the speed limit,
41:32that doesn't look like the highway.
41:33So, it looks like a main road of some sort.
41:36And, definitely, there are speed signs,
41:39with signs indicating, sorry, the speed limit.
41:43You also have to be always mindful that the pedestrian
41:46always have the right of way.
41:48So, even though they may cross in front of the vehicle,
41:50it's nothing to just punch them.
41:52There is one.
41:54But, also, as the pedestrian on the road is there,
41:56you also have to remember you can be right and dead right.
41:58In the sense that, for example, you may be a motorcyclist.
42:00You don't want to race against a truck,
42:01because even though you might have the right of way,
42:03you can be right and dead right.
42:04But I also want to encourage people, again,
42:06leave early, drive slowly, reach safely.
42:09You see, when there's an accident, there's actually three parts.
42:11When your body is moving at the speed of the car,
42:13the car is moving fast.
42:14That is one part.
42:15And then, when the car suddenly stops because of the accident,
42:18your body continues to move at the speed of the car.
42:20And then, the parts inside of your body,
42:22your heart, your lungs, continue to move at that speed.
42:24So that, when your car suddenly stops,
42:26your body will pedal forward.
42:27It's like the windscreen, the other compartments.
42:30And that's why it's very important to observe the speed limits,
42:33put on your seatbelt, and drive safely.
42:35And try to avoid the phone and the text and all these things.
42:38And as we get into this Christmas season,
42:41you know, this hustle and this bustle people are driving,
42:44there was also another accident near the Freeport area.
42:49A four-car smash-up along the highway.
42:52Remember, this is not far from the Chaguanas area
42:55where they're doing a lot of road construction.
42:57You see, police was on this.
42:58I think this was yesterday, late yesterday evening,
43:02or I believe early this morning.
43:04So, a couple of vehicles were involved in this particular accident.
43:09And obviously, everybody has somewhere to go.
43:12But everybody also has to be mindful of other drivers on the roadway.
43:17Because if we're all in a rush, God forbid what will happen.
43:21And you don't just want to leave to go, you want to reach.
43:23Exactly.
43:24And that's why we encourage people, if you're feeling tired, don't drive.
43:27If you're feeling sick, sometimes don't force the point.
43:30Don't drive. Let somebody else take care of you.
43:32If you have to travel or stay home, so be it.
43:34But always prioritize your safety and the safety of other road users.
43:38Yes, certainly.
43:39And we want to endorse that as we go into the Christmas season
43:44to exercise extreme caution on the roads
43:48and try to be tolerant or tolerable of other drivers on the roadway.
43:55Sometimes you might get a bad drive.
43:58Some people will react differently to bad drives.
44:00We want to encourage everybody to just take a deep breath sometimes
44:05and shake it off and move on.
44:07I know it's difficult to say that and do it, but you have to do that.
44:12And these days, they don't know who has what in their cars.
44:15No, you are correct.
44:16And also statistics have shown that there's a lot of road fatalities
44:19happening on Saturday afternoons from about 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.
44:23when there's little traffic on the road.
44:25And at that time, there's a lot of road fatalities.
44:27So we want to encourage people, when they're using the road at those hours,
44:30be mindful of that.
44:31Because they will be more likely to end up in a fatality at that hour of the night
44:35as opposed to if you're driving during Frederick Street on a Friday evening.
44:39How does that translate, though?
44:40You're telling me between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m., with less traffic on the road,
44:44is it that people see that as an impetus to want to speed?
44:48That's correct.
44:49And what we have found is that because there is less traffic on the road
44:53and Saturday is sort of a busy day in terms of, you know,
44:55you're coming from offline, you're going to a party or something like that,
44:57people drive faster.
44:59In some cases, they may be under the influence of alcohol.
45:02In some cases, they may just be tired.
45:04And as a result of that, what we would have done to address that
45:06is that we would have increased speed exercises on the highway
45:09around those same times, and we would have also increased exercises
45:12in terms of driving under the influence of alcohol,
45:14doing better again to control that.
45:17And as we're going to the—we have a break in a short while,
45:21but in the Northeastern Division,
45:23what are some of the plans going into the festive season for you and your officers
45:27as you try to make the area safer and more secure?
45:31Definitely police presence.
45:33Now, so far we have had 16 community meetings and 37 walkabouts.
45:37And what we will continue to do is to focus our energies, as it were,
45:41into what we call the hotspot areas.
45:43There are areas that are more prone to have gang violence.
45:46There are areas that are more prone to have shootings and woundings.
45:49So you'll find we have a lot of officers doing foot patrols in these communities,
45:52and we also have them doing mobile patrols coming out of the vehicles,
45:55engaging the members of the public, together with members of the Army.
45:58We have been having continuous patrols in the San Juan
46:01and Barataria districts together with the traffic wardens.
46:04So it's increased police presence.
46:07Again, the more police presence, it has shown that there's less propensity
46:12to the commission of crime, because people realize that if they commit a crime,
46:15they're more likely to be apprehended.
46:17So we will continue to increase police presence,
46:20continue to have officers coming off of their vacation leave,
46:23and continue to increase police presence in areas we would not normally be
46:27for longer periods of time.
46:29And I know that in those areas that you term hotspot,
46:33it's even more difficult to get that kind of buy-in from people in that area
46:38because everybody seems to have a kind of a distrusting eye with the police,
46:43in some cases, especially to talk about gang-related activity in those specific areas.
46:48Now what happens is that a lot of persons live in these areas and they live in fear.
46:53But what I have realized is that I myself, as the Crime Reduction Plan says,
46:57khaki must lead.
46:59And I myself would have gone into some of the Chinapu.
47:02This week I would have been with the soldiers walking through Chinapu,
47:04and members of the public are happy to see us there.
47:07They are happy to see the soldiers with them on foot patrol.
47:10And because of that, the fear of crime is reduced,
47:12as well as the members of the community who may be inclined to bad behavior.
47:15They realize this, and the police walk in the streets,
47:17and we are in their comfort zone.
47:19So we don't just want to do things haphazardly.
47:21We are doing things in terms of precision policing.
47:23So we would have identified over a period of time,
47:25with the knowledge that we got from the crime and problem analysis,
47:28where we need to concentrate our energies,
47:30and that's where we focus our energies.
47:32All right, we're going to take a short break, and we'll be back.
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50:08Welcome back to Beyond the Tape, I'm your host Marc Bessant.
50:18Joined today by ASP Martin from the Northeastern Division.
50:22And I do believe we have a caller on the line.
50:25Caller, good evening.
50:26Yes, good evening.
50:28I am a single mother of four children.
50:34Okay.
50:35Now, I would have listened to what the lady would have said.
50:39And my take on it, the lady who is with, who is taking care of her children, she's not lying.
50:49Because if what she's accusing this lady of, of helping her with the children,
50:57she went away two weeks ago for her children, she's lying.
51:01As a mother, we do what needs to be done.
51:05That is what I am saying.
51:07She's lying on the lane.
51:09It won't take two weeks.
51:11If she's lying, go immediately and get your kids.
51:13She's lying on the lane.
51:15She is.
51:17Go stand, caller.
51:18It really disturbs me.
51:20Caller, thank you.
51:22Thank you, caller, for your opinion.
51:25Of course, as a mother, I can understand where she stands with that.
51:30I don't know if you just want to articulate in a very general sense what she would have said
51:35and how she felt about the situation.
51:38Well, I think what she was saying is that as a mother herself of four children,
51:42she would sacrifice and stay with her children.
51:46And that it's sort of inconceivable to think of having given up your four children
51:52to another woman to mine for four months.
51:54Because remember, this person now has to find the money to mine these children
51:58and feed these children for four months while you may be trying to make ends meet.
52:02They are actually making ends meet.
52:04So any responsible, reasonable-thinking mother would really make the sacrifices
52:08to stay with the children as opposed to handing over the children
52:11and then coming back after, like if it was a car heading out, to take back the children.
52:15As I said, we don't want to cast aspersions.
52:20We don't know the facts.
52:22We don't want to make accusations because there's three sides to that story, they say,
52:28yours, mine, and the truth.
52:30So we've got to wait to see how it unfolds, of course,
52:34because the Children's Authority is part and parcel of this situation going forward.
52:40Mark, again, I want to highlight as a police officer that women have a very important role
52:45in helping develop the moral fabric of society through development of their children.
52:50Women have played a very important role as caregivers, educators, farmers, community leaders,
52:56and they have provided us with meals and health and whatnot.
52:59Many women have taken on leadership roles in the community,
53:02and women make up 43% of the world's agricultural labor force,
53:06and in some countries even as much as 70%.
53:08So again, we want to continue to appreciate our women,
53:12we want to continue to celebrate our women,
53:14and we want to continue to say we, as the members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service,
53:18stand against violence against women.
53:20We stand in favor of protecting the women, looking after women,
53:23and all these things that I said just now.
53:25This woman is unfortunate that she's in that situation.
53:27These children have fathers.
53:29So as the TTPS, we want to say we stand in solidarity in protecting our women,
53:33and we stand against violence against women in all its forms.
53:36And we're in a process, we're in a period now of 16 years of activism against gender-based violence.
53:42That's correct, which will have started on the 25th of November,
53:45and it ends on the 10th of December, which is Human Rights Day.
53:48So we really want to, it's an international program where we continue,
53:51it's across 187 countries, over 6,000 organizations,
53:56and we continue to work towards bringing a realization that we must protect our women.
54:01We all came from women.
54:03We may have different genders, we may have different beliefs,
54:05we may have different educational backgrounds, but we all came from a woman.
54:09Most certainly. Any parting words for our viewers?
54:13Again, I want to tell the members of the public, thank you for your support.
54:17Even as we are going into December, and we say we're going into city season,
54:20we are coming to the end of our strategic plan,
54:22and we continue to have partnership with the community as our number one pillar.
54:26Then we have public safety, and of course, operational excellence.
54:29So we want to tell you, continue to work with us.
54:31We love you, we love the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
54:34As a national myself, I am happy to be a member of Trinidad and Tobago Police Service,
54:38as are my other colleagues.
54:39Let's work together to make Trinidad and Tobago a better place.
54:42Right. Thanks so much, ESP Martin.
54:44Of course, we run tonight at 11, theatre repeat tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
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