00:00The state of emergency has failed.
00:03In a state of emergency, when you're supposed to be secure,
00:07and the most secure place where you think that when you go to do your duty,
00:10in a police station in Trinidad and Tobago,
00:13you go there and you are murdered.
00:17National security expert and consultant is rubbishing a statement made by the Prime Minister
00:22in response to last Sunday's murder of WPSC Anuska Eversley at a municipal police station.
00:29Weapons were stolen from a secured armory during a state of emergency.
00:36And you have the government saying that this is a one-off, this is something to worry about.
00:41Dindial says there are supposed to be standard operational procedures in place to secure those arms and ammunition.
00:48That amount of ammunition and weapons in the hands of the criminal elements,
00:54obviously it's an indictment into the state apparatus, into the intelligence aspect,
01:01that the intelligence that they have right now is futile.
01:08They need help.
01:10Arms used by daily officers on duty are stored, he says, separately from the majority of weapons.
01:16Dindial says books are supposed to be checked daily, the main log once a week,
01:21and a manual audit by a senior done every month.
01:25They're going to have regulations and standard operation procedures in how it's supposed to be kept.
01:32Because you normally, and for the defense force I can speak for, you do not keep arms and ammunition together.
01:38So you keep your ammunition in separate locker and you keep your arms separately.
01:42So you can't, if someone breaches, just as we're talking about,
01:45they do not get your arms and ammunition together in one place.
01:49He believes the incident involved a significant level of planning.
01:54I am inclined to believe right now with information given is that they had the keys.
01:59So they obviously had to, and that's why, you know, the WPC, God rest her soul,
02:08she was part of something there that, you know, she had the keys.
02:11So they got the keys from her.
02:14And what if she didn't have the keys for the main armory?
02:17If they had to breach and had to make noise with those things,
02:21the people upstairs who were sleeping would have heard.
02:23They would have heard something going on.
02:24So it lends to the argument that more and more officers were involved in this.
02:34And therefore, Dindial says it brings into question the type and background of persons brought into the protective services.
02:42Ravashita Wari, Rupnurain, TV6 News.
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