A stretch down­town Scar­bor­ough plauged with mul­ti­ple rob­beries, shoot­ings, and mur­ders has re­ceived a per­ma­nent po­lice pres­ence af­ter the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty stepped in to fix a bro­ken down po­lice mo­bile unit.

The ve­hi­cle, which had been out of ser­vice for some time, is now sta­tioned at the Scar­bor­ough Port, di­rect­ly op­po­site a su­per­mar­ket where three work­ers were at­tacked and robbed while asleep just days ago.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice Earl Elie said the ve­hi­cle had been in­op­er­a­ble “for the last cou­ple of years” be­fore it was re­paired this week by a mem­ber of the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty and re­turned to the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion.