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00:00:00Just give them much as they expect.
00:00:17I have rights.
00:00:18I have rights.
00:00:20You have rights.
00:00:22We all have rights.
00:00:24He has rights.
00:00:26She has rights.
00:00:28All children have rights.
00:00:32My parents and my guardians should know all my rights.
00:00:36Our government should ensure that we enjoy our rights.
00:00:47Children have rights.
00:00:59Okay, well, the honey badger's finally down.
00:01:03How's the dairy farm?
00:01:05Almost out of business.
00:01:07God, I cannot believe I'm failing at, like, the most basic task of motherhood.
00:01:12Honey, you are not failing, okay? She's getting help.
00:01:15Yeah, but it's such a struggle.
00:01:17And there's Diora and Mommy Group.
00:01:19Her breasts are like an inner-city fire hydrant in the summertime.
00:01:23They're just like...
00:01:25Children are frolicking under it with umbrellas and rubber boobs.
00:01:30To be fair, she has huge boobs.
00:01:32Who is that fair to?
00:01:34Look, sweetie, I support anything you want to do.
00:01:37You know that.
00:01:39But there is a solution to this problem.
00:01:41We can just supplement with formula.
00:01:43No. No.
00:01:45My milk is what's breast for her.
00:01:47Breast for her?
00:01:49Best for her?
00:01:51I said best for her.
00:01:53Okay.
00:01:54Hey, thank you so much for coming.
00:01:56My friend Sasha said you guys worked miracles for her in Little Sephora.
00:02:00Oh, that's so sweet. So sweet, but no, no.
00:02:02Mother Nature is performing the miracles.
00:02:04We just facilitate.
00:02:06We are but tools.
00:02:07I've never heard of a lactation consultant couple before.
00:02:10Well, breastfeeding is a family issue.
00:02:13So let's dive in, shall we?
00:02:15Mm-hmm.
00:02:17Okay.
00:02:19Now, I just want you to just feel the energy pass through as we...
00:02:25Oh, don't flex. Why are you flexing?
00:02:27I'm not flexing.
00:02:28Just relax. Breathe in.
00:02:29Okay.
00:02:31Close up the circle.
00:02:32You go here.
00:02:33Yeah, you go right there.
00:02:34Don't be afraid. I'm not wearing a bra.
00:02:36Oh, that's fine.
00:02:38You two just have a...
00:02:39No, you're not.
00:02:40Grab on. There we go.
00:02:42And breathe in.
00:02:50Your hand is incredibly warm.
00:02:52Yeah. That's the energy.
00:02:55Now, we just remain here for an hour.
00:03:01The wheatgrass and the Japanese fish eye paste will stimulate your milk production.
00:03:06Okay.
00:03:07You are lucky.
00:03:08Wow. Smells like my junior year abroad.
00:03:11Ooh, okay.
00:03:13Just do it. Just go.
00:03:14One, two, three.
00:03:16There you go. That's my girl.
00:03:18Yeah.
00:03:19Oh, my God.
00:03:25It's coming back up. It's coming back up.
00:03:27Your milk will not flow when you are at war with your body.
00:03:31You are angry at your breasts.
00:03:33Mm-hmm.
00:03:34Yeah.
00:03:35I don't...
00:03:36Yeah, you are. Forgive them.
00:03:39Okay. Yeah. I do.
00:03:42No, don't tell me. Tell them.
00:03:44Tell your breasts.
00:03:49I forgive you.
00:03:50Louder.
00:03:54I forgive you.
00:03:56I just got chills.
00:03:58Okay, you are ready. You can do this.
00:04:00You're going to take the mammary and you're going to flatten it into a sandwich.
00:04:03There you go. Flatten it.
00:04:04And then shove that sandwich right into Lark's mouth.
00:04:06Oh, what?
00:04:07Shove it in.
00:04:08It's deli time.
00:04:09What?
00:04:10You know what? Let's show her Teddy.
00:04:11Right. I'll be the baby.
00:04:12Oh, no, no, no.
00:04:13Oh, no, no.
00:04:14It's okay. Thank you.
00:04:15You don't have to put yourself through this, all right?
00:04:17Just say the word and I'll go get you formula.
00:04:20Oh, no.
00:04:21What? Did you just say the F word?
00:04:22Formula?
00:04:23Yeah.
00:04:24Don't you ever drop the F bomb in front of my sister.
00:04:28Okay, look. I'm just trying to be supportive for my wife and my kid, all right?
00:04:31I'm not trying to...
00:04:32Wait a minute. Sister?
00:04:33Yeah, that's what got me.
00:04:36Okay.
00:04:45Lark is going to be fine, okay?
00:04:48You are smart.
00:04:49You are funny.
00:04:50You are tough.
00:04:51And those are going to be the things that she gets from you.
00:04:54And those cannot be bought at a store.
00:04:57That's so sweet.
00:04:59I love you.
00:05:00I love you.
00:05:01Oh, my God. What?
00:05:03You did not pay us to quit.
00:05:05Your baby will thank us later.
00:05:07Go, go, go, go, go, go.
00:05:09Like us on Facebook.
00:05:16I hate those people.
00:05:17Yes, I do, too.
00:05:21Check the post.
00:05:23Still got one.
00:05:24Quick, they're coming back.
00:05:25Still got one.
00:05:27Get it to me.
00:05:28Get it to me.
00:05:33Get it to me.
00:05:51I am your mother.
00:05:52Aunt.
00:05:53Grandmother.
00:05:54Guardian.
00:05:55Friend.
00:05:56And I promise to protect you in all situations.
00:06:00Because someone has hurt you.
00:06:02Violated you.
00:06:04Harmed you.
00:06:05Abused you.
00:06:06And you were brave enough to tell me.
00:06:09You trusted me.
00:06:11You came to me for help.
00:06:12To defend.
00:06:13For support.
00:06:15To protect you.
00:06:17No amount of money.
00:06:19Or bribes.
00:06:20Favors.
00:06:21Or gifts will stop me.
00:06:24You are most important to me.
00:06:27You are worth more to me than any material thing.
00:06:31I will do all in my power.
00:06:33In my heart.
00:06:35To make sure that you are taken care of.
00:06:38And that justice is served.
00:06:41And you thrive.
00:06:42Together, my daughter.
00:06:44My son.
00:06:45My child.
00:06:46We will live and love.
00:06:48I will protect you.
00:06:50Break the silence.
00:06:52Report all cases of child sexual abuse.
00:06:58I like to move it, move it.
00:07:01Dad.
00:07:02What?
00:07:03I'm just making sure that everybody knows that I like to move it, move it.
00:07:08I like to move it, move it.
00:07:09Dad!
00:07:10What?
00:07:11Tyler smiled.
00:07:12Don't encourage him.
00:07:13Why?
00:07:14It's funny.
00:07:15See, and that is why I love you best.
00:07:16Okay, girls, that is so not true.
00:07:18He loves me best more than all three of you put together.
00:07:20It's sweet that you think that.
00:07:22Am I the only one who cares that we're leaving this house forever?
00:07:25We're only moving a couple miles away, and the new house is going to be even better.
00:07:28I mean, yes, I know.
00:07:30This is where you used to come home to with your little lunchboxes,
00:07:33and then you'd run into my arms and scream, you know, mommy.
00:07:36Okay, I'm over it.
00:07:37Let's move.
00:07:38Please don't.
00:07:39Come on.
00:07:40I'll give you $5.
00:07:41You run into my arms and go, mommy, mommy, mommy.
00:07:42Mommy, mommy, mommy.
00:07:43Oh, yeah.
00:07:45Hi.
00:07:46Hey.
00:07:47Hi, Uncle Matt.
00:07:48What are you doing here?
00:07:49Good.
00:07:50I came to help you move.
00:07:51That's what family does.
00:07:52Also because Mom and Dad fired up the hot tub and threw on some Josh Groban,
00:07:54so I knew it was time to leave.
00:07:55Also, Dad told me it was time to leave.
00:07:58Oh, hey, guys.
00:08:00If the movers look a little rough around the edges,
00:08:03that's because Clean Slate Movers only hires ex-convicts to help them turn their lives around.
00:08:07That's right.
00:08:08What?
00:08:09It's a charity.
00:08:10Who cares?
00:08:11It's deductible.
00:08:12Kids, this is a good cause.
00:08:14Morning.
00:08:15I'm Aaron.
00:08:16You guys ready?
00:08:17Yes.
00:08:18All right, then.
00:08:19Let's move.
00:08:21Looks like someone likes to move it, move it.
00:08:24They like to move it, move it.
00:08:27Madagascar.
00:08:28It was between 98 and 07.
00:08:30I have no idea.
00:08:32Were you studying abroad?
00:08:38Oh.
00:08:39What year is that?
00:08:40That's one.
00:08:41Workers, hold.
00:08:45Sir.
00:08:46Can I speak to you for a second?
00:08:47Me, sir, or her, sir?
00:08:48Don't you go.
00:08:53We are not allowed to come in contact with anything that pertains to our incarceration.
00:08:57That's why I had to blow the whistle.
00:08:59Oh, the alcohol.
00:09:00Yeah, sorry.
00:09:01No, I'll get that.
00:09:02I'll take care of it.
00:09:03I'll pack that up.
00:09:04Is there any other drugs or alcohol in the house?
00:09:05No.
00:09:06No.
00:09:07No.
00:09:08No.
00:09:09No?
00:09:10There is nothing.
00:09:11What happened?
00:09:15Apparently, there's nothing.
00:09:18Oh, God.
00:09:33Hi.
00:09:34Hi.
00:09:45Oh.
00:09:46Um, I was just coming in for my, uh, Malcolmins.
00:09:49Please, don't do that.
00:09:50I will get in so much trouble.
00:09:51I have to.
00:09:52Whoa.
00:09:53Stop.
00:09:54If you blow that whistle, this kid's going to get grounded for, like, at least a year.
00:09:58Now, what would happen if somebody were to cut you a break the first time you screwed up?
00:10:01Where would you be right now?
00:10:03Dead.
00:10:04OK.
00:10:05That was a bad example.
00:10:06You know what?
00:10:07That's mine.
00:10:08He's holding it for me.
00:10:09I don't live here.
00:10:10So that means, technically, you don't have to blow that whistle.
00:10:13I'm so tired of fighting.
00:10:15All right.
00:10:17Thank you, Uncle Matt.
00:10:18Yeah, yeah.
00:10:19Hey.
00:10:20All right.
00:10:21What are you...
00:10:22No?
00:10:23Oh, my.
00:10:24Oh, OK.
00:10:29180-D pill.
00:10:37What are you doing?
00:10:39Aren't we going to say goodbye to the house?
00:10:41Been here our whole lives.
00:10:42Oh, sweetie, it doesn't matter where we live.
00:10:44As long as we're together as a family.
00:10:46What about Sergeant Tweety and Ekey and Speedy the Turtle?
00:10:50Oh, honey, they're in heaven.
00:10:51No, they're technically buried in the backyard.
00:10:54Yeah, they are family.
00:10:56We wouldn't leave Grandma in the backyard.
00:10:58Depends which Grandma.
00:10:59You know what?
00:11:00We dig.
00:11:03He's got a lot of energy.
00:11:05We dig.
00:11:07We dig.
00:11:08Let's...
00:11:09Dig.
00:11:10Let's...
00:11:11Dig.
00:11:13That's on there.
00:11:14Yeah, I'll drive slow.
00:11:16Let's go.
00:11:24Goodbye, house.
00:11:25Don't like your new family better than us.
00:11:31Hey, look, kids.
00:11:32There's my mom and Pop Pop.
00:11:34Howdy, neighbors.
00:11:35Hi, sweetie.
00:11:37How great is this?
00:11:39Yeah?
00:11:42Well, we're home.
00:12:13Thank you, members of the media.
00:12:15This concludes our weekly press briefing.
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00:12:37Everyone is able to live in a crime-free society.
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00:17:42Welcome to Beyond the Tape. I'm your host, Mark Bassan.
00:17:45It's certainly a very wet Tuesday evening here in Port Ispil and Environs
00:17:50and, of course, across the East-West Corridor.
00:17:53We want to just update you on a body that apparently was found in the Corrid District
00:18:00reported by the Hunter's Search and Rescue Team.
00:18:03We understand that the police discovered the body around 10 o'clock this morning.
00:18:07The body is said to be of African descent male.
00:18:12Approximately five, five and a half, five feet, eight inches.
00:18:18They're saying that the person had tattoos from the elbows to their shoulders on both sides
00:18:26as well as the fact that they were wearing a blue three-quarter pants and a brown jersey
00:18:33with a white vest underneath.
00:18:36Certainly, the police is continuing their inquiries into that particular discovery this morning.
00:18:43Of course, today we are joined by Corporal Ramanan from the Southern Division.
00:18:48I want to welcome him again. He was here a couple of weeks ago. How are you?
00:18:51Always a pleasure, Mark. It's good to be here again.
00:18:54Quite a wet day indeed. It was very precarious coming up the road.
00:19:01I'm here and I am very thankful for being here to treat the issues that we will be discussing.
00:19:07I know being on the roadways, as you said, is very precarious.
00:19:13Of course, with the wet roads, we want to ensure that people reach home safely from work
00:19:18as they are leaving. People have left and there's a lot of traffic and so on.
00:19:22When rain falls, people need to proceed with more caution on the roadways.
00:19:27Yes, indeed. In fact, just this afternoon, I'm sure a lot of persons would have seen,
00:19:33Mark, you would have seen the video of an accident which unfortunately took place on the PBR
00:19:38where some young children were knocked down.
00:19:42Based on that, it's a clarion call from all of us here and also the TDPS for both drivers and pedestrians
00:19:52to take your time on the roads and be very mindful of your surroundings
00:19:56when you are attempting to cross any roadway to the pedestrians.
00:19:59We want everyone to reach home safely.
00:20:02Right, and I know you're here in the capacity representing the Southern Division
00:20:07and of course, everybody is doing different preparations and the police are sitting
00:20:12as we prep for the Christmas season now that we are in.
00:20:16Indeed.
00:20:17Some of the things that the police service is doing down in the south
00:20:21to ensure that shoppers are safe as they go about their business.
00:20:25Yes, just recently, a number of stations in the Southern Division would have embarked upon
00:20:31sensitization walks throughout the various station districts where we would have met with
00:20:39members of the business community, members of the shopping public and other persons
00:20:44who have little small businesses set up to just advise on safety issues with regards to crime,
00:20:51safety issues when it comes to fraudulent activities and also safety in terms of
00:20:56just being in that public space with an increased number of persons being in and around you.
00:21:03So we would have done that.
00:21:05We would have shared a lot of tips, not only for when you are out there shopping,
00:21:09but how you can secure your homes, how you can secure your vehicles when you are
00:21:13parked your vehicle in a car park and away from the vehicle for a period of time.
00:21:17So we would have shared a lot of those safety tips with the members of the public.
00:21:21And from all appearances, it was very much welcome by the members of the public.
00:21:27And we continue in that drive, in that momentum to keep pushing the tips to the public as they come along.
00:21:37I don't want to go too quick, but I know the public would have been aware of our situation at the C3 Mall.
00:21:45Yes, and that would have been my next question.
00:21:47I know that happened, I believe, on Saturday, late Saturday evening,
00:21:50where a 16-year-old boy was apparently stabbed and I think one of his lungs was punctured.
00:21:57Just give us an oversight into that and what is the condition of the young boy?
00:22:02My information is that he is in a stable condition.
00:22:05Investigations are ongoing.
00:22:07But what we would have noted is that during the period where school is out,
00:22:11there is a proliferation of young persons without much supervision gathering in these locations.
00:22:18And there is the old saying, idle hands.
00:22:21Idle hands usually put themselves up to mischief.
00:22:25So we have taken note of the increased number of young persons in these areas.
00:22:30And the police have put things in place so that we will see an increased amount of patrols
00:22:35and police presence in these locations to try to minimize instances of violence erupting among our young people.
00:22:42And of course, we are also very curious.
00:22:46Yesterday, police came upon a very grisly discovery.
00:22:50The dismembered body of Ramdath Maharaj at Senon Village in Siparia.
00:22:58It's not very often you get cases like that where the body was dismembered and the feet was nowhere to be found.
00:23:07I don't know if the police were able to locate it up to today.
00:23:12But what can you tell us? It's certainly a very disturbing homicide.
00:23:18That did in fact take place in the South Western Division.
00:23:21I haven't had much information with regards to it.
00:23:24But no doubt, like myself, the persons who would have seen that and the members of the public, it is a very disturbing sight.
00:23:32It is a very disturbing thought that one human being could do this to another human being.
00:23:38The investigations will be continued by the Homicide, I believe it will be Region 3 officers.
00:23:46And they will be engaging this, and I suspect with very keen interest in solving this murder.
00:23:52Alright, we're going to take a look now at our headlines.
00:24:22So those were some of the headlines within the last 24 hours or so.
00:24:52And of course, one of the biggest stories over the last 24 hours was our friends, or your colleagues rather, in Tobago making a major drug bust last night, sometime last night.
00:25:04$42.2 million.
00:25:06You're seeing the officers there on the beachfront in Pigeon Point where they intercepted a pirogue that was coming into the beach.
00:25:16And my understanding, based on the seizure by the Tobago Divisional Task Force, this was on Monday night at Pigeon Point in Tobago,
00:25:27they seized 231.7 kilos of marijuana, 13 kilograms of powdered cocaine, one Beretta M12 machine pistol, three Beretta M12 magazines,
00:25:41one Glock 17 pistol with a magazine, one customized Glock fitted with a magazine, and 167 rungs of assorted 9mm ammunition.
00:25:52And also two men were arrested, one from the Marabella area and one from the Boko area in Tobago.
00:25:59So it leaves some very good work there under the guise of Senior Superintendent Eli in the Tobago Division.
00:26:08Yes, indeed. That was a wonderful piece of work.
00:26:12The officers there would have utilized the intelligence that they would have had, and they did in fact put in place a wonderful plan,
00:26:21which netted the positive results that we saw here.
00:26:24And whilst it's a bit concerning the volume of narcotics that would have been coming in, it says a lot about what we may have missed.
00:26:34And the firearms that are all too readily available, I must say hats off to those officers in Tobago for that fine.
00:26:42It means that there are firearms that are off the streets and out of the hands of criminals,
00:26:47and also a very large quantity of narcotics are not going into the systems of our citizens.
00:26:55We see that these alleged drug runners using the guise of the night, of course, where they believe, at that time,
00:27:05probably picking up a very lonely spot on the beachfront, where they would assume that there is nobody looking,
00:27:12and it's easier under the cover of night to move shipments of a big nature, as you would have seen there.
00:27:20And we also had this whole operation, a worldwide operation, where a couple of days ago,
00:27:27I'm sure you would have read in the media and seen on television, where they would have intercepted a large quantity of cocaine
00:27:36in those underground submarines heading to Australia.
00:27:41It was quite a large haul. It was a combination of a lot of countries providing intelligence and information.
00:27:50And in the same set, of course, we have that kind of unison here in the Caribbean,
00:27:55as well as with law enforcement agencies in North America and so on.
00:28:01Mark, ultimately, we have seen time and time again that the criminal element,
00:28:06they are networking, they are utilizing all the intelligence that they could get their hands on in order to perpetrate their unlawful acts.
00:28:16And we as law enforcement, we as citizens, we must also meet that threat with the same amount of thrust,
00:28:24and we must network, and the networking is what ends in the results that we would have seen in Tobago,
00:28:31we would have seen internationally, and we would have seen other similar type drug busts.
00:28:36We said we want to commend the officers of the Tobago Divisional Task Force for their work by taking these firearms,
00:28:44and of course, by extension, these are illicit drugs from our streets.
00:28:52And last night, we also had a shooting in the Oropon area where somebody was shot and injured.
00:29:00I don't have a lot of details, but the police was quickly on the scene there in Oropon Gardens,
00:29:08and I think one person was taken to the hospital where they were treated and kept in a stable but serious condition.
00:29:18So, you know, gun violence is still there, and I know you have some figures you will share with us later on
00:29:23in terms of how your division is faring in that capacity.
00:29:30So, we're going to take a short break, and we'll be back. Stay with us.
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00:32:23Welcome to Beyond the Tape. I'm your host Marc Bessin. Welcome back I should say.
00:32:33We are here today with Copper Ramanan from the Southern Division and I just want to remind you of the numbers to call.
00:32:41623-1711 extensions 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997.
00:32:50We are going to take you to a video that is a little bit disturbing of course of a road traffic accident that took place earlier today just after noon along the priority bus route in the area of Convent Street near the Lopino area in East Trinidad.
00:33:09So you're seeing here a Maxi Taxi stopped to drop passengers off and there's a lady or a young woman that appears to have two children and they were attempting to cross the bus route in front of that parked Maxi Taxi of course with the other Maxi of course heading in a westerly direction.
00:33:38The driver comes up because he would not be able to see those pedestrians.
00:33:43Of course I want the guidance of Copper Ramanan here as we look at this video if you would like to chime in on this.
00:33:53Yes, Marc I saw the video a bit earlier and it was very frightening to see these young persons and you could see from the video that the rain is falling so it creates added difficulty for the driver of the vehicle.
00:34:06I wouldn't want to speak to his speed or anything like that because obviously we can't determine speed based on the video but we did see these persons try to cross without paying much heed to any uncommon traffic which is strange to me given that this is the PBR where we are custom seeing vehicles at pace moving along that roadway.
00:34:29I would like to use this opportunity to just remind the pedestrians on any public roads, roadways that whilst we are not seeing any crosswalks being marked out on this particular piece of the road, I have noticed a very disturbing trend where there are some roads where there are quite a number of crosswalkings clearly earmarked and we are not utilizing it.
00:34:54We are simply crossing wherever we feel like doing it and I am saying this in the backdrop that I have been to other countries where we ourselves would walk a mile up a roadway or sidewalk to reach to that crosswalk.
00:35:09Before we cross we would not do it elsewhere so why aren't we doing it here?
00:35:15There is a maxi taxi parked on the shoulder there of course probably dropping off passengers and any pedestrian, I am not trying to point figures, if you are going to cross in front of a stationary vehicle you have to look at the edge of that vehicle, you look out to see if any traffic is coming down in the direction that you are planning to cross.
00:35:41I don't know if that was done with any due diligence in this matter and it seems that luckily the driver, he stopped immediately and rendered the assistance getting the children to the hospital.
00:35:55I understand that they are both at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, they have been treated for injuries, hopefully it is not life threatening.
00:36:08But we just want to urge people, we have to as pedestrians be cognizant of how we cross the road and we were just talking yesterday that we have 108 pedestrians that were killed on the roadways for this year already.
00:36:26Comparatively it is 72% higher than it was last year.
00:36:31Yes, yes, indeed.
00:36:33And again, without casting aspirations as to the driver or even the pedestrians, we all have to remember that motor vehicle traffic and pedestrians make up the travelling public.
00:36:47We need to accept that, that there will be times when we have to cross paths and all we can do as law enforcement is to ask both parties, both drivers, both pedestrians to pay extra attention to the roadway.
00:37:03We don't want anybody to be hurt, we don't want to be after the fact saying well you should have done this and you should not have done that.
00:37:10We would prefer to not have these instances taking place so that persons would not have to end up in the hospitals, in the morgues, let's be real about it, in the morgues.
00:37:21This could have very well ended up much worse than it has and I wish those persons who have been injured a speedy recovery and hope that it is a learning lesson for all of us to be a little more aware whenever we are crossing the nation's roadways.
00:37:37Yes, certainly. I think we have a caller on the line. Caller, good evening.
00:37:41Good evening, sir. First I would like to touch on that video. Oh my God, so sad, I pray it looks like kids, I pray that they are okay.
00:37:49My thing is that the marks you see on his shoulder looks like he was having some mechanical difficulties if you realize that his hazard lights were blinking, right?
00:37:59My second point, Mr. Besant, last week I would have called when you had the senior support in division there and I touched on marked police vehicles that do not have siren and lights.
00:38:10And he said that yes, they have gotten a new fleet of vehicles, but I was not speaking about the new fleet of vehicles that just came in, right, that they gave one to each division.
00:38:21And so I'm speaking about vehicles that were there that we have currently for years and have been using without lights and sirens.
00:38:29And I suggest that they take off those, some of those off of those unmarked vehicles and put it on marked police vehicles.
00:38:35My third and last point is, sir, to the gentleman there, I'm not sure if it's happening in your division or if probably you would have heard of several police officers that are leaving the TTPS.
00:38:49To join other forces in countries, international countries there, right?
00:38:55And it's a cause for concern because we are speaking about very young officers, right, who may have just like five years service, under five years service, and even older officers under the age of 50 years, right, that are leaving the TTPS, right?
00:39:11And this is a cause for concern because right now we are operating in a place where we don't even have enough police and then police officers are leaving.
00:39:20And I honestly want to believe that they are getting off on a better package, right?
00:39:26So if you could touch on that, sir, I'm not sure what division the gentleman is from, I just tuned in, so I called him one time. Thank you.
00:39:34Thank you. Yes, so with regards to the officers leaving the TTPS to move on to other, sometime other countries, different persons would have various reasons why they would choose to do certain things.
00:39:48In this instance, I am sure that it's probably for a better package. I'm not going to doubt that anyway, or any form of fashion.
00:39:58However, I would not be able to touch on whether or not anything better could be done at this stage. That is purely a matter for the Executive, the Office of the Commissioner, and also with regards to the packages and so on and allowances that are issued at Fort Squirrelly with the CPO.
00:40:15And sometimes it's a personal choice as well, depending on the circumstances of that individual.
00:40:21Even there may be their families living abroad, and then they decide to go and join them and so on.
00:40:26We don't have no empirical data, of course, to suggest that there's a mass exodus of people leaving here to join law enforcement agencies across in other countries.
00:40:37I don't have that, and I can say for the Southern Division where I am attached, I haven't heard of any officer in recent time leaving the service for those purposes.
00:40:49So let's hope that we could call that a drain, so to speak, as we would use the term brain drain.
00:40:57So we will try to keep our officers as best as we can.
00:41:02Well, on the subject matter of the unmarked police vehicles, of course, using police sirens, we will have to inquire.
00:41:10I know you directed the question to, I think it was ASP Janki last Friday.
00:41:16So I have to inquire from him the status of that.
00:41:20I don't want to be presumptuous and make any kind of comment to state, well, you know, they have decided to make certain decisions, of course.
00:41:29So we will have to confirm and find out from them what I know there has been concerns, if you know why, over a period of time because of alleged vehicles, unmarked vehicles with sirens involved in criminal activity.
00:41:43And I think that's where a lot of the fear has really risen with the citizenry of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:41:49Yes, and I take the point of the caller. The caller did make some good suggestions.
00:41:54I am sure that the executive would be looking on and they would take these suggestions and see how best it could be adopted if possible.
00:42:03If not, well, we are welcome for any suggestions that may make the organization as a whole a better entity.
00:42:12All right. We're going to take your calls and much more when we come back from this break. Stay with us.
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00:44:06Welcome back to Beyond the Tape. I'm your host Mark Bassan.
00:44:19Of course, joined today by Corporal Ramanan from the Southern Division.
00:44:24And according to my producer, let's head to the lines.
00:44:27Caller, good evening.
00:44:29Good evening.
00:44:30Good evening, Mark.
00:44:31Good evening.
00:44:32Are you from the South?
00:44:33Yes, I am.
00:44:35Yes, one thing I have to say is that I see on high street, on high street, you will always see somebody making their, you know, and that is good.
00:44:45But what I'm saying is, the boots that they have made on, on Mocapa Street, people are not really using them.
00:44:52But at least, at least we could walk a little better on high street.
00:44:56Even though there are some vendors who would still, you know, try to sell whatever.
00:45:00But the way they are placed, they're not really, so that's a plus.
00:45:04At least you could walk on the pavement properly, you know, properly on high street.
00:45:07You know, so that's really, really great.
00:45:09And that accident I saw, it's really sad.
00:45:12But one good thing is that the driver immediately stopped.
00:45:16Because remember, we saw an accident where somebody knocked on somebody and she gone.
00:45:21And they had to get on all that, you know.
00:45:24So all the best, all of you.
00:45:26Because they're not using the boots that they put for them on Mocapa Street.
00:45:30They're not using them at all, at all, at all.
00:45:32Apparently they don't want to work down there.
00:45:34All the best, all of you.
00:45:36Including Miss Jackie. Bye-bye.
00:45:40So I'm aware of what Nicola, what I've been speaking about there.
00:45:44There were, every year there are different methods adopted and different plans implemented by the different divisions.
00:45:53The plans in certain divisions are no different.
00:45:55We have the mayor.
00:45:57His worship would have had some consultations with the other stakeholders.
00:46:01And they put a plan in place.
00:46:03It is very obvious that no plan is perfect.
00:46:07And no plan will always benefit one particular person, 100%.
00:46:11There will always be persons who feel as if they are ill-circumstance because of it.
00:46:18But what we need to understand is that in implementation or the planning process,
00:46:23we have a number of factors to take into consideration besides that individual interest that might be there.
00:46:30So it's quite unfortunate if some persons feel ill-circumstance.
00:46:34But we have to look at the bigger picture when we are doing plans like this.
00:46:38Yeah, and certainly, you know, as we get to the Christmas, you know, vending is always a very touchy topic.
00:46:44Because there are always, you know, certain stipulations or they are put in a particular place that they might disagree and so on.
00:46:51And not just in San Fernando, but in Port of Spain and Rima, Chagones, etc.
00:46:55Indeed, indeed.
00:46:57So I think we have another call on the line.
00:46:59Caller, good evening.
00:47:03Good evening, caller.
00:47:04Yeah, yeah. Blessings to the past.
00:47:06To the corporal and Mr. Vassa.
00:47:09Now, I'm observing that too much people have been getting killed.
00:47:14Especially under Solomon Acharya and his carelessness.
00:47:18Look at what we do with Imafri.
00:47:20Imafri, man, right, you know.
00:47:22So did his parents.
00:47:24Not too long ago, at that time, when I crossed the road by the supermarket,
00:47:27the mother was inside the supermarket.
00:47:30She let go of the child.
00:47:31She didn't tell the child anything in the road.
00:47:34Of course, she tried to go across the road by herself.
00:47:37That's a slap in the face.
00:47:39It's a case for J-Walking still.
00:47:43It's a J-Walking still offense.
00:47:45Because too much of that J-Walking has got you getting let down.
00:47:51How do you say that, caller?
00:47:52Yes, it's a very accurate observation that the caller would have made.
00:47:57Too often we are seeing, particularly young persons,
00:48:01attempting to cross in locations where it is very dangerous.
00:48:06And sometimes adults also.
00:48:08And I would call upon parents, guardians, the adults in society,
00:48:13to please pay attention to your little ones.
00:48:16They may not understand the danger as we would understand it.
00:48:20And it is sometimes difficult for the driver of our vehicle,
00:48:24it might be a very heavy piece of equipment that they are driving,
00:48:27or even a car that is moving very quickly, to stop in time.
00:48:32Let's not drop the ball and have to mar this festive season
00:48:39with injuries and deaths.
00:48:42I certainly agree with you 110% there.
00:48:46We have another caller in line.
00:48:47Caller, good evening.
00:48:51Hello?
00:48:52Good evening, caller. You are live and we are on the tape.
00:48:54Go ahead.
00:48:55Yes, sir.
00:48:56What I want to find out from the officer here
00:48:58is if he could give us feedback on the back pay for the retirees.
00:49:04I just want to get feedback on the back pay for the retirees.
00:49:10Yes.
00:49:11Unfortunately, caller, I am not in a position to give that.
00:49:15And it is no laughing matter.
00:49:18I have seen persons have been placarding the police administration and so on.
00:49:24That is something that is way outside of my remit and knowledge scope.
00:49:30But I dare say that persons who may have that remit,
00:49:36they would look at the program and they would hear the question being asked
00:49:40and hopefully those persons who are in that position,
00:49:43they get some answers sooner rather than later.
00:49:47All right.
00:49:48I hope he answered your question very well.
00:49:50Now, we were sent this footage today of an apparent robbery at a factory
00:49:57somewhere in the Princeton area, St. Julian.
00:50:01What we understand is that a couple of masked men,
00:50:05they drove a vehicle into the compound of this factory here in St. Julian area
00:50:13that would fall under the Southern Division, of course, corporal.
00:50:17And my understanding, this happened on Sunday night
00:50:21where they would have carted away more than $77,000 in powder detergent.
00:50:31And I know you might be familiar with some of the details of the case.
00:50:35This is just one of the videos that we were sent.
00:50:38But in a couple of the other videos we also saw,
00:50:42they seem to have known where the cameras were on this compound.
00:50:47So they used various paraphernalia to push the cameras up from a broom to other things.
00:50:55The gentleman there you're seeing, he's using a broom here,
00:50:58a broom handle of some sort to alter the direction of the cameras
00:51:03so that they don't pick up certain things.
00:51:07In one of the cameras that they altered, of course,
00:51:10see he's moving this one as well,
00:51:14you see a truck that pulls up, right?
00:51:18Even though he moved the camera, there was a reflection, of course,
00:51:21and you will see a truck pulling up and then later you will see them.
00:51:25This process took a couple of minutes as well.
00:51:29So there was ample footage to obviously capture these alleged thieves
00:51:36stealing the quantity of powder detergent from the compound here in St. Jude.
00:51:42And you can see here where they're loading up onto the truck.
00:51:48And I know you might have a little more general info you would want to share
00:51:52about this particular robbery.
00:51:54Yes, indeed. I'm quite aware of the report that was made.
00:51:59The actions of the persons that we have seen in this video,
00:52:04I do agree that it does bring to my mind
00:52:08a certain degree of familiarity with the location.
00:52:12And I would add to that that some of those cameras are not easily visible.
00:52:19But yet still, these individuals were able to locate each one with relative ease
00:52:24to try to manipulate them.
00:52:26There are quite a number of videos in relation to this,
00:52:28and I can say the Princeton Criminal Investigations Department,
00:52:32they are investigating statements that were recorded
00:52:35and also footage has been received from this.
00:52:38We have had some insight into this particular crime,
00:52:43which is, to me, very fruitful at this stage.
00:52:46I wouldn't want to go too much detail into it,
00:52:49but we have a good feeling with regards to the information
00:52:53we would have received so far.
00:52:55We expect a positive outcome in relation to those perpetrators
00:52:59in the shortest possible time.
00:53:01We are hopeful for the owner's sake that they recover the stolen merchandise
00:53:05because, as you said, it's a time around Christmas
00:53:08where there are a number of vendors on the street side
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00:53:13And God forbid, it falls into the lap of one of those persons,
00:53:16unsuspectingly, of course.
00:53:18In some cases, they say, we have a good deal for you.
00:53:21Instead of $50, we're going to sell it for $40.
00:53:24Indeed, indeed.
00:53:25So we are hopeful that the perpetrators in this particular crime
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00:56:01Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
00:56:03I'm your host, Mark Besant, of course,
00:56:05joined today by Corporal Ramanan from the Southern Division.
00:56:08We want to remind you of the numbers to call.
00:56:10623-1711, extensions 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.
00:56:17And I think somebody made a mistake.
00:56:21I'm sorry.
00:56:22Extensions 1992, 1993, 1996, and 1997.
00:56:27And I think somebody made a suggestion.
00:56:31I obviously will have to pick it up with the producer
00:56:34about sending videos to a WhatsApp number.
00:56:36I do believe we have a number.
00:56:38I will try to get that number to you as soon as possible.
00:56:44Yes, and we also have beyondthetape1 at gmail.com
00:56:49for those of you who want to send any videos.
00:56:51And I'll get the Beyond the Tape number to you as well for WhatsApp
00:56:54for videos in the coming days or weeks that you would like to send.
00:56:59We also wanted to talk about, you know, it's an ongoing topic, of course,
00:57:04this topic of demanding money, so people would know it as extortion.
00:57:09And the police was able, in very good measure and in good time,
00:57:14to arrest and charge two men on Saturday.
00:57:19They appeared before a court in San Fernando yesterday
00:57:23and were denied bail.
00:57:25Apparently, the two gentlemen, between the period of November 19th
00:57:29and 26th of last month, would have repeatedly showed up
00:57:34at a job site in Vancouver, allegedly demanding money
00:57:38to the sum of $40,000.
00:57:40And, of course, they would take some kind of retaliatory action
00:57:45if the money was not paid.
00:57:48Of course, a report was made, and following an operation
00:57:51under ECP Richard Smith of the Anti-Extortion Unit,
00:57:56the men were arrested on Saturday and appeared on Monday.
00:57:59So certainly some good work there, arresting these men in very quick time.
00:58:05Yes, indeed. Indeed, it was very good work by the unit.
00:58:09I did, in fact, have a conversation just recently
00:58:13with one of the senior officers of that unit,
00:58:15and he would have advised me also that the unit will be embarking
00:58:21on a sensitization and training program for the different divisions
00:58:27so that officers in the divisions would not shirk
00:58:30or we will be concerned when reports of this type come to them.
00:58:34They will have a better understanding as to how to approach the reports,
00:58:38how to approach the investigations, so as to continue bringing about
00:58:42positive outcomes such as we would have seen here.
00:58:45And hats off to the unit.
00:58:47ECP Smith always on the ball with regards to wherever he's attached.
00:58:51And we will continue in our stance on the TTPS as a whole
00:58:57to say no to extortion, and we're asking members of the public
00:59:00who may be victims of an attempt to,
00:59:06an actual extortion scheme,
00:59:11please report it so that we can take the necessary steps
00:59:15and bring these persons to justice.
00:59:17All right. We have another call on the line.
00:59:20Caller, good evening.
00:59:22Hi, good evening.
00:59:24Good evening.
00:59:25Mark, Mr. Bassan. CPL, good evening.
00:59:31Hello?
00:59:32Go ahead, caller. We're listening.
00:59:34Yeah, listen, I have one concern.
00:59:39If there's a law or current law where somebody can walk
00:59:44and they have to have an ID card with them,
00:59:47like when the police stop you and say,
00:59:50listen, let me see your ID.
00:59:53And when they see this ID and ask you,
00:59:56okay, if you don't have an ID, where are you coming from,
00:59:59where are you going, where you went,
01:00:01and the police will say, listen to me.
01:00:03And they're going to question that.
01:00:05How can we not put this in the face
01:00:07that everybody who on the street outside
01:00:09will have to walk with an ID?
01:00:13Corporal, you look very tired.
01:00:15I see that in your face.
01:00:17You look tired.
01:00:18Mr. Bassan, thank you very much.
01:00:21I am, in fact, tired, caller,
01:00:23and I thank you for observing that there.
01:00:25We have been going nonstop for quite some time.
01:00:27I was smiling, Mark,
01:00:29simply because of the suggestion of this last caller,
01:00:32because it is something that I would have suggested before.
01:00:35Of course, in smaller circles,
01:00:38because ultimately,
01:00:40the passage of any laws
01:00:42go way beyond my job spec
01:00:45is for the legislature to continue.
01:00:47But I think the idea is a good one,
01:00:49and my personal view
01:00:51that it is something that we can look at as a country
01:00:55with respect to adding to the arsenal of
01:00:59tools in which law enforcement
01:01:01might be able to identify persons
01:01:03who may be up to no good,
01:01:05and also to protect those persons
01:01:07who are going about their legitimate business.
01:01:09So I think it is a very good idea, caller.
01:01:11I myself would have thought it and spoken about it
01:01:15in certain circles also.
01:01:16So you are saying that we should have an ID,
01:01:18everybody should have a form of ID on them
01:01:21at any given time if they are stopped by the police,
01:01:24and if you don't, you should be charged.
01:01:27Is that what you are essentially alluding to?
01:01:30To simplify it, it would be akin to that.
01:01:34But it is a little more complex
01:01:37in terms of the creation and implementation,
01:01:40but yes, it is similar to what you would have indicated there.
01:01:44How would we go about in terms of
01:01:48implementing such a law?
01:01:50I know you are not a legislator,
01:01:52but you are obviously in that legal parameter,
01:01:55and you also have to be cognizant of what the law states,
01:02:00not just for the police service,
01:02:02but I guess in a general sense.
01:02:04Well, there is an offence for failing to provide
01:02:07a name and address.
01:02:09Already on the law books,
01:02:11there are different pieces of legislation
01:02:13for failing to give a name and address,
01:02:15or giving a name and address
01:02:18which the police suspect to be false.
01:02:22Now, I am simply saying that
01:02:25if that situation arises
01:02:27in the absence of this legal requirement
01:02:30to have an ID on you,
01:02:32at least persons of a particular age,
01:02:35I am saying that the forward process
01:02:39could be made much simpler
01:02:41with this type of law being present
01:02:43to be implemented.
01:02:45Because in the absence of it,
01:02:47what is required now is that this person
01:02:49has to be detained for a prolonged period of time
01:02:52whilst the police make their checks
01:02:54to ensure that this person is, in fact,
01:02:56who they say they are.
01:02:58It might require a family member to bring an ID
01:03:00or some sort of document to indicate
01:03:02who this person is.
01:03:04Whereas what the caller would have suggested,
01:03:06and what I also think is
01:03:08a relevant piece of consideration,
01:03:11is that if that is in place,
01:03:13it will be quite easy to determine on spot
01:03:16that this person is, in fact,
01:03:18who they are saying they are.
01:03:20Yes, because you also have to safeguard against,
01:03:22as you say, people using false identification cards,
01:03:25false driver's permits,
01:03:27even false birth certificates.
01:03:29Yes.
01:03:30And it's an issue.
01:03:31You will see a person having their photo and everything,
01:03:34they have an address that might be actually false,
01:03:38but their picture is on the DP or the ID card,
01:03:41because that exists.
01:03:43Yes, it does.
01:03:44We have quite a number of persons
01:03:46charged in the Princeton District,
01:03:48particularly by the Princeton Municipal Police
01:03:51for fraudulent driver's permits
01:03:56and also fraudulent certificates of insurance.
01:04:00These things are being done so expertly
01:04:03that sometimes the untrained eye would pass.
01:04:06Sometimes the trained eye would pass it
01:04:08without giving it a second thought.
01:04:10There are a particular group of officers
01:04:14who would have put some focus on this issue.
01:04:18They would have come to me,
01:04:19we would have discussed it,
01:04:21with the legality of their operations,
01:04:23and we agreed on a particular position,
01:04:26and they were able to successfully reach the person
01:04:28that actually started the creation of these documents.
01:04:33So they would have made a lot of inroads with regards to it.
01:04:36So it's very good work
01:04:37for the Princeton Municipal Police officers also.
01:04:40Right, certainly.
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01:07:17Welcome back to Beyond the Tape.
01:07:19I'm your host, Mark Bessant, of course,
01:07:21joined today by Kopal Ramanan from the Southern Division.
01:07:25And he just has a very brief message to share with us
01:07:27about the 16 Days of Activism.
01:07:30Yes, indeed.
01:07:31So the 16 Days of Activism is a project of the UN,
01:07:34which is the United Nations.
01:07:36And it's a project of the United Nations
01:07:38that has been working on the 16 Days of Activism
01:07:41for the last 20 years.
01:07:43The 16 Days of Activism is a project of the UN,
01:07:46which has been adopted by the TTPS,
01:07:48specifically the Gender-Based Violence Unit,
01:07:51where, for that period,
01:07:53they are engaged in several activities
01:07:56of edifying members of the public
01:08:00on the different types of issues
01:08:02in relation to gender-based violence.
01:08:04Now, the 16 Days, by no means, is the cut-off period
01:08:07where we need to focus on these issues,
01:08:10but we are goal-oriented persons.
01:08:12So by having something like this,
01:08:15it does bring the attention and the focus on these issues.
01:08:18So I will invite members of the public
01:08:20who are on social media to go onto the Facebook pages
01:08:23of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service,
01:08:25where they have more information as pertains to this.
01:08:28And I can simply say this.
01:08:30Whilst we sometimes think that violence goes one way
01:08:34in terms of man to woman,
01:08:36it can go the other way.
01:08:38And we, the men of the TTPS,
01:08:40we stand in full solidarity with our female counterparts
01:08:43in supporting this initiative
01:08:45and all initiatives which are geared towards
01:08:47minimizing instances of violence
01:08:50between partners and spouses.
01:08:53Certainly a very important chapter there,
01:08:56that 16 Days of Activism.
01:08:59And, of course, it doesn't end there, as you said.
01:09:02It continues as we try to fight
01:09:04against gender-based violence.
01:09:06And I know as we close, we have a couple of minutes.
01:09:09I know that you just wanted to share some news
01:09:11as it relates to the Southern Division
01:09:13in terms of some crime stats.
01:09:15Yes.
01:09:16Mark, I'm sure you would have heard me say on previous occasions
01:09:19I like to stay away from stats.
01:09:21I don't like stats so much.
01:09:23Right.
01:09:24Given the fact that the feeling of the people
01:09:27is much more instructive as to the success of the TTPS.
01:09:32But just to briefly touch on,
01:09:34what I would have noted from the CAPA statistics
01:09:36is that Southern Division has experienced
01:09:39to the 30th of November this year
01:09:42a 29% decrease overall in serious reported crimes
01:09:47as opposed to the comparable period last year, 2023.
01:09:53What was the percentage then, if you could recall?
01:09:55If you say comparatively.
01:09:5729% from the previous year reduction.
01:10:01Now, is it that we are in a comfortable position?
01:10:04No, we are not.
01:10:05Because there is always room for improvement.
01:10:07Of the different headings of serious crimes,
01:10:10there is one particularly troublesome one
01:10:12which would have had an increase, which is homicides.
01:10:18I don't like to hide the fact because ultimately
01:10:20it is one of the main stats by which the public
01:10:24would peg the success or failure of the TTPS.
01:10:28But you can rest assured that,
01:10:30as I would have indicated before
01:10:32and I will indicate to you again now,
01:10:34our officers are working tirelessly
01:10:37with a view of not necessarily and only reducing stats,
01:10:41but reducing the fear of crime
01:10:45to you, the citizens that we serve.
01:10:48And we in the Southern Division,
01:10:50by our various programs and processes,
01:10:54we have been trying our best
01:10:56and we will continue to do so
01:11:00to realize those successes that we hope to achieve.
01:11:03Recently, I want to thank you for coming on to the show today.
01:11:08As always, it is a pleasure.
01:11:10And we are hopeful that not just in the Southern Division,
01:11:13but in all the other divisions of Trinidad and Tobago,
01:11:17there will be a huge reduction in reports of serious crimes.
01:11:21Alright?
01:11:22So, remember we run tonight at 11 theatre,
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