They really say “do so doh like so”. Just a few months ago, the CoP was telling us the TTPS is committed to transparency and addressing officer misconduct, but now…
Our leaders are well aware of our blind spots. They know what we care about and what we don’t. That’s why they don’t really care about domestic violence.
If so many TTPS applicants are failing to meet the basic criteria for entry, the organisation should probably take a closer look at its recruitment pool.
Shout-out to that one officer at the Carenage Police Station who held nothing back when asked his thoughts on the Prime Minister’s recent Parliamentary statement about the police’s fear of criminals.
Let’s connect the dots, shall we? To hand extra powers to the TTPS—an organisation known for misconduct—is to play a very dangerous game.
Can you really be a law-abiding citizen under a State of Emergency (SoE) if you don’t understand the law?
If a State of Emergency (SoE) is the government’s only means of addressing spiralling crime, the real emergency might be unfolding in the Red House.
What message does it send to have leadership that sees 500 murders (and counting)—the vast majority of which were committed by men—and sees fit to blame women?
You can always count on the Honourable Fitzgerald Hinds to stick his foot in his mouth The man has never met a crime controversy he didn’t want to dive into.
Ask any Trini to name the top issue facing our nation, and they’ll say it’s crime. But we actually mean crime* and there’s so much hiding under that asterisk…