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  • 11 months ago

About eighty elderly residents of Beetham Gardens celebrated the last day of 2024 with food, music and good vibes, courtesy the TTPS' Community Oriented Policing Section. Rynessa Cutting was there.
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00:00The elders of the Beetham Gardens community were well pleased to be treated to food and drink,
00:06courtesy the TTPS Community Oriented Policing Section.
00:10But for one centenarian, there is much more to celebrate than the coming New Year.
00:1590th January is a hundred years.
00:21And you're looking forward to how many more?
00:23Well, that depends on God's wishes.
00:29The Appreciation Luncheon is one of a number of initiatives put on by the TTPS Cops Unit
00:34in an effort to build and strengthen community relationships.
00:38The Community Oriented Policing Section says it will be focusing heavily on male mentorship in 2025.
00:45Is that something that the community has been crying out for?
00:48Definitely. Definitely.
00:50That is the cry of the parents.
00:52When we go to school, when we go to even the police youth club,
00:55they would come in and say, well, you know, the father is not here.
00:57The father is in jail. The father has been killed.
01:00Many different. This father is missing and absent.
01:04So the male police officers in the unit would be stepping up and taking that role?
01:09They are willing and able.
01:11Meantime, one resident is calling for the return of a police post in the area.
01:16They used to have a mobile patrol on the Beetham,
01:21but somehow they moved it and I find it should still be there.
01:25That is exactly on the local streets.
01:32That lower part of the street.
01:35Because since they moved it, I think about two people got killed over the year.
01:44But overall, do you feel good about the police and their relationship with the community?
01:49Yes, I feel very good about the police.
01:52Whatever wrong you perceive, you know.
01:55Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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