00:00With one Municipal Police Constable charged with the murder of his colleague,
00:05woman Municipal Police Corporal Anuska Eversley,
00:08and some of the stolen firearms and ammunition recovered following a brazen,
00:13deadly heist at the San Fernando Municipal Police Station on Sunday,
00:17Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa is praising the response by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
00:24She previously described the incident as an internal betrayal
00:29and now says it appears to have happened as a result of poor supervision within the Municipal Police Service.
00:36I think the TTPS and the Commissioner of Police are doing a fantastic job.
00:40They've worked very quickly.
00:41They have removed the head of the organisation, Municipal Police, Mr. Sagram Singh, I think he was,
00:48because that has not been happening today.
00:51We discovered it today, on that day.
00:55I think one of the officers in an interview talked about over eight months, about eight months that has been
01:01going up.
01:01So there has not been proper supervision of what is happening in the Municipal Police.
01:07On Wednesday, at the sod-turning ceremony for the Hilton Garden Inn Hotel at South Park San Fernando,
01:13the Prime Minister said as her government approaches one year in office,
01:18she's satisfied with their anti-crime initiatives so far, but says more work has to be done.
01:25I'm very pleased, first of all, look, the murder rate is down by 42%.
01:29Crime was something we campaigned heavily on, and we have some achievements, as I say, much more to do.
01:36Murders down by 42%, serious crimes down by 30%, crimes down from 600 to whatever it was at the end
01:43of last year.
01:44And again, this year, so far, from last year to now, that too is down.
01:49So I am very happy about that, but I'm not overjoyed because I think there's still much more to do.
01:55When asked about the status of government's reform of the current firearms users' licenses law, she gave this update.
02:02We are actively working on that together with the Law Reform Commission.
02:07I've asked for research to be done what's happening in other Commonwealth jurisdictions so that we can get models to
02:14follow.
02:15Yes, we will reform it.
02:17You know, to correct, it's 120 months of neglect that we have to correct.
02:22We've just had 12 months.
02:25Cindy Raghubatika Singh, TV6 News.
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