00:00Retired Lieutenant Commander Norman Dindial warns that deploying elite combat units into civilian areas fundamentally misunderstands the nature of community
00:09policing.
00:10Dindial views it as an act of desperation against his position that it ought not to transcend into recklessness.
00:18Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissetta calling for U.S. Navy SEALs to fight crime in Trinidad and Tobago is reckless.
00:25SEALs are trained to kill terrorists, not police citizens in Lavantel.
00:34That's not crime fighting. That's inviting foreign special forces into our backyard.
00:40SEALs don't know our gangs, our communities, our people.
00:44Dindial emphasizes that local gangs operate within complex social structures that cannot be solved through high-intensity military tactics alone.
00:53Instead, their affairs that foreign boots on the ground could trigger a severe backlash.
00:58They don't speak the language of MOVA. They speak the language of kinetic warfare.
01:03You'll create more enemies than you kill.
01:06The world will see a former colony begging U.S. commandos to do what our government and police couldn't do
01:13in 60 years.
01:15That's not boasting of unity. That is broadcasting our failure.
01:19Rather than deploying tactical forces, Dindial makes a suggestion.
01:24The country requests targeted institutional aid, such as British forensic expertise,
01:29or FBI financial intelligence to track illicit acts like money laundering.
01:34But don't ask for SEALs to patrol our streets.
01:37That's not partnership. That is surrender.
01:40We have brave Trinidad and Tobago police service officers.
01:44We have special branch. We have Coast Guard.
01:47Fund them. Equip them. Stop using them as political footballs.
01:52Prime Minister, God bless our nation means we solve our own wrongs.
01:57We don't subcontract our liberty to foreign boots.
02:01TNT must fix TNT.
02:02However, the Prime Minister has not said that Navy SEALs will be on the ground policing gang-riddled areas.
02:09Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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