Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro is once again calling on citizens to stop withholding information about criminal activity from police.
He made the appeal during the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Sports Day on Saturday.
“I want to make a collective call to the citizenry. It is your sons, brothers, your family, you know that they are in possession of illegal weapons and they are committing these heinous crimes, and you are remaining silent. And that in itself is an indictment on society and how we should approach how we deal with criminality going forward.”
That’s the statement from Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro as he commented on the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago.
He further urged citizens not to take the law into their own hands.
“This brings me back to July last year. A young fellow named Zion Roberts was killed in Belmont, and I sent for his father to come and see me. After speaking with the father, he indicated to me, boss, I know who did it, I’ll go sort it out myself. Sadly, he was one of the three victims in this homicide that took place in Belmont, along with his two-year-old child.”
Turning to the issue of increasing home invasions, the Police Commissioner said the TTPS Home Invasion Team has been doing a phenomenal job.
“We are utilising the intelligence that we gather, and we are developing it in order to create operational plans for the strategies that we move forward with.”
Commissioner Guevarro also acknowledged the urgent need for stringent controls to stem the illegal flow of firearms into the country.
He described it as deeply troubling that high-powered weapons continue to be used in criminal acts, often resulting in multiple victims from a single incident.