00:00Police Commissioner Alistair Gavarro told members of the media during the SOE there has been a reduction in crime not
00:08only in Tobago but in Trinidad.
00:11Police Commissioner Alistair Gavarro told members of the media any extension of the state of emergency SOE does not lie
00:19with the TTPS.
00:20Thus far just as in Trinidad we have been monitoring and collating the data and thus far we have seen
00:29some positive results towards reduction in general crime statistics in all major categories.
00:39I announced a couple weeks ago that we have seen reductions in all the divisions of the Toronto Tobago Police
00:45Service and Tobago was one of them.
00:47Would you be looking at an extension?
00:50That decision is not up to the Toronto Tobago Police Service.
00:53Speaking on the Active Directed Grid Patrol initiative launched in Tobago on Friday morning, he said the measure is needed
01:02in the country's crime fight in addition to the positives of the SOE.
01:07Tools such as the SOE as well as the Active Directed Grid Patrols all form part of a major strategy
01:15in terms of fighting crime not only in Tobago but also in Trinidad holistically.
01:20With Tobago recording its sixth murder with the death of footballer Jalon Graham-23 last Friday, the Police Commissioner said
01:29all crimes inclusive of homicides are of concern to the TTPS.
01:35Every single homicide in Trinidad and Tobago is of particular concern to the TTPS.
01:41What I will be able to tell you is that we monitor and we evaluate each incident and we put
01:48particular treatments in place to deal with it going forward.
01:51Guevara said the police cannot be everywhere to prevent crimes from being committed.
01:56These multiple homicide incidents, we are very hard pressed to figure out in terms of predicting where homicides come from.
02:08We wish that we could be omnipresent everywhere and we wish we could predict where homicides are going to occur.
02:13Thus we will be able to put assets and resources in places to prevent them.
02:17But at this point in time, we would like to rely on the intelligence that we have and ask the
02:22members of the citizenry to share information that they may have with us to allow us to solve these crimes
02:29and to better predict where these occurrences will take place and thus put preventative measures in place.
02:36As for a marine unit in Tobago to treat with crimes on the high seas, he said this measure is
02:43not yet available in Tobago.
02:45Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
