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  • 11 months ago
Criminals will not escape the wrath of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service this Carnival.

The warning comes from Deputy Commissioner of Police, Curt Simon.

He was speaking on the Tv6 Morning Edition on Tuesday.

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00:00We are not going to be easy on the criminal element. I assure you, you persons who are bent on crime,
00:07we are not going to give you a smiling face. We are not going to give you a pat on the back,
00:13even if you stand and appear to be quiet. We are going to come at you and we are going to discommote you.
00:19We are going to make you uneven. We are going to make you uncomfortable in this SOE, in this carnival, and even going further.
00:27DCP for Operations Kurt Simon further weighs in on the triple murder in Gunapo, Arima,
00:33that also left a six-year-old nursing gunshot wounds.
00:37Responding to a claim by a relative of the victims that officers were on the scene and failed to respond,
00:44DCP Simon says the officers were not on the scene at the time, though they would have liked to have been.
00:51Adding that they did respond in quick time, but sadly not quick enough to have saved the lives that were lost.
00:59Still, he is seeking to assure the community that they are not forgotten.
01:04To the residents there, the TTPS, we are in your area. You know that we are in your area.
01:08We are doing our patrols. We are checking on the known offenders.
01:13And even since this incident, you know that we have made some arrests in the areas
01:18related to persons involved in the gangs and the drugs and the menace that goes along with it.
01:23The senior officer is also asking for stricter penalties for offenders.
01:28He says too often they are detained and later released.
01:33We are marking the intervention of the SOE.
01:36We are looking at the advantages that it has given to law enforcement
01:40and perhaps to make some sort of recommendation to the rightful authorities
01:45to make some adjustments with our legal processes so that law enforcement can remain in the ascendancy.
01:53Because right now, perhaps too much rights might be afforded to the criminal element.
02:00DCP Simon believes, anecdotally, that the state of emergency is responsible
02:05for what he describes as a reduction in crime over the past two months.
02:11He further tells TV6 that there are less guns coming into the country
02:16and notes that officers continue operations to remove the firearms being used by criminals locally from off the streets.
02:24We have recovered, as I said, over 100 plus guns.
02:27That means we have not made three months in this year. It's just two months.
02:33So that is more than two guns recovered per day.
02:39We would really like to see the large hauls with the 15 and the 20 firearms.
02:47But we will not fly in God's face when we are getting two and three per day.
02:54Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
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