00:00Political leader of the National Transformation Alliance and maritime and security expert
00:06with 27 years of military experience, retired Lieutenant Commander Norman Dindial says
00:12the TTPS is struggling in both detection and prosecution.
00:17He points to what he describes as alarming incidents, including an attack at a police station
00:22during the state of emergency and the daylight murder of a man at the Queen's Park Savannah on Thursday.
00:28Our states of emergency are just lackluster. We have given extraordinary powers, but are we utilising it properly?
00:37We have now stretched it out in such a way that the criminal element is no longer freed.
00:43He also challenges government's claim that crime is on the decline, saying
00:49that interpretation is conditional and misleading.
00:52Figures are going down, but not compared to other months and other years when there was not a state of
00:59emergency.
01:01So yes, the state of emergency is kind of clamping down on certain things,
01:04but you are still seeing, within a state of emergency, you're not supposed to see these kinds of spikes.
01:10You're not supposed to be seeing these kinds of murders.
01:12On the government's promises made, a promises kept message, Dindial tells the Morning Edition.
01:19From his perspective, the goalposts continue to shift, while results remain unclear.
01:25I don't think that they have fulfilled any of their promises that they campaigned on.
01:30They campaigned on reducing crime for the first six months.
01:32We see that they are manipulating the figures to show that.
01:37And then everything else is, we have promised this, but give us some more time.
01:41So it's always give us some more time. How much more time do we require?
01:44He maintains that a state of emergency is by no means an effective solution for fighting crime.
01:50And he believes the government may extend it for an inordinate amount of time to prevent appearing to have failed.
01:58Nicole M. Romani, TV6 News.
02:03Nicole M. Romani, TV6 News.
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