The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is reporting a decrease in child protection offences and intimate partner violence, alongside an increase in arrests for child protection offences.
Superintendent Roger Reyes, attached to the Special Victims Unit, highlighted the data during the TTPS Media Briefing on Wednesday.
“Based on the department’s most recent analysis for 2026, reports of child protection offences have decreased by 9.4%. While reports of intimate partner violence have decreased overall by 40.3% when compared with a corresponding period last year, comparable January to June 2025 and 2026 data also show a reduction in several reported offences.”
Ahead of the new school term, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is also reminding students to refrain from engaging in school fights and bullying.
According to ASP Leith Jones of the Special Victims Unit, the repercussions for such actions are severe.
“You can find yourself being investigated for offences of a more serious nature. It may even fall within the realms of gang activity, it may fall within the realms of maybe attempted murder, and in the worst-case scenario it can even be a murder if someone dies as a result of those fights, because you see very frequently in those instances persons are usually kicked in their heads and so on.”