NOT ENOUGH POLICE FOR CARNIVAL EVENTS

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At least two Carnival events will not be able to go on as scheduled, due to there not being sufficient police officers to allocate to the events. Meantime the TTPS is advising all Carnival stakeholders to move with haste to secure their various permits. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00pressure for party promoters as the TTPS finds itself facing human resource

00:06constraints with the SOE overlapping with the carnival season. I have seen

00:11that that the SOE can in fact the carnival proceedings are because of the

00:17demand power deployment that we have to use to deal with our operations and the

00:24carnival activities so on my desk I know that I have a disapproved to that

00:33that's suggested activities by persons who wanted to have a juve celebrations

00:39next Wednesday and it that had was to be denied because of what we are planning

00:45to do and then we are also looking at the fact that juve is already catered

00:50for in the carnival celebrations so we are asking you to bear in mind with us

00:55have some patience and that's not all with just over one week to go until

01:00masqueraders hit the road apparently a number of carnival stakeholders have not

01:05done the needful to secure the requisite permits normally around this time we

01:10would see approximately three to four hundred applicants already by persons

01:14who have to get permits for their trucks and other vehicles that would be on the

01:18entourage for their bands we have only seen about eight applications come in

01:25thus far so I'm wondering what is taking place but I know Trinity style is always

01:30late so I know next week there will be a warning persons please do not wait until

01:36last minute to come in here or come and apply for your permits applications can

01:40be dropped off at Riverside Plaza on the fifth floor or at the Woodbrook youth

01:45facility use this opportunity wisely because we are we would be locking off

01:49on Friday the 28th of February that would be the last day so please use this

01:55opportunity wisely because if you are found on the roadway

01:59vehicles that have not that do not have the requisite permits you would be

02:04taking off the route and I'd be to your demise right we'll have we also have

02:09licensing we can closely with us we have a task force that would be working with

02:13licensing and they would be enforcing this the TGPS says with just about 10

02:19more big events carded for the carnival season all events thus far have been

02:24free of major incidents Renessa cutting TV 6 News

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