00:10Details are still coming to hand. However, Port of Spain Mayor Chinua Alain confirms that the man in the video
00:17is Alderman Wayne Griffith of the Port of Spain City Council.
00:21Alain declined to comment further. However, the video appears to show Griffith attempting to stop a fight among a group
00:29of school children when one of the girls turns on him. As the two start wrestling, the Alderman falls to
00:36the ground, at which point a number of children punks on him, kicking and stomping him. Concerning is how head
00:44of the school-oriented policing unit, DCP Junior Benjamin, describes the incident.
00:49We see, what I saw, it was not, that is certainly something for us, very concerning for us, because, I
00:56mean, one person and all these students, but we are going to look into it, as I say, it's an
01:02investigation, and we'll see what the investigation will do.
01:07Benjamin confirms that there are police officers stationed at Tranquility Secondary, and as such, the TTPS will be moving to
01:14implement further interventions.
01:17So, the TTPS is not attempting to arrest these children at all?
01:22Well, I'm just saying, where there is an offence, and it must be done, we are going to do it.
01:28But we are saying that, in certain cases, where, again, we might not have all the evidence, we want to
01:35ensure that, first and foremost, there is intervention to see exactly what is the situation, what is causing that.
01:41Is it a problem at home? Is it a situation in terms of anger problem?
01:47If it's a person that we recognize are habitual offenders, we want to see if we can have them be
01:53part and parcel of our intervention program within the police chief clubs.
01:57And, therefore, we are looking at all possible ways to see if we can address the situation.
02:03Despite this, DCP Benjamin says, the data show a reduction in school fights, at least on school compounds.
02:11As such, the police will be moving to ramp up after school patrols.
02:16We don't want to also be reactive, where we see Tranquility time, next week we see another school and we're
02:23running helter-skelter.
02:24We want to see that there's a pattern of behavior so that we know there is not a one-off
02:28situation.
02:29All right? So, I'm just saying right now, no, there might not be any patrols outside the school.
02:34All right? But we are looking at the general pattern throughout the Port of Spain Division, throughout the other divisions.
02:42And we are going to be, based on that, have some of the community policing officers that are out to
02:50help in at least having patrols in some of these areas.
02:54Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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