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The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) has ex­pressed sup­port for the Gov­ern­ment’s de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency, say­ing the mea­sure al­lows broad­er crime re­duc­tion strate­gies to take root while pro­tect­ing law-abid­ing cit­i­zens.

In a me­dia re­lease, the par­ty said crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go has reached a lev­el that re­quires de­ci­sive and sys­temic in­ter­ven­tion.

It said that while long-term so­lu­tions must ad­dress the root caus­es of crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, sev­er­al short-term ac­tions can pro­duce re­sults in the im­me­di­ate to medi­um term.