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Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Ju­nior Ben­jamin, met with sev­er­al stake­hold­ers in To­ba­go on his first trip to the is­land since tak­ing up the role.

Among them was the Chief Sec­re­tary, Far­ley Au­gus­tine, Mi­nor­i­ty Leader, Kelvon Mor­ris, Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber, Mar­tin George as well as mem­bers of the To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and To­ba­go Hote­liers As­so­ci­a­tion.

The Chief Sec­re­tary ex­pressed his ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the CoP mak­ing To­ba­go his first stop to meet with stake­hold­ers and to dis­cuss mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est. In his dis­cus­sions with the stake­hold­ers, Com­mis­sion­er Ben­jamin re­as­sured them that the TTPS has a tri­par­tite ap­proach to deal­ing with crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. This in­cludes crime pre­ven­tion through var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty pro­grammes and struc­tures such as the Po­lice Youth Clubs, crime sup­pres­sion through in­tel­li­gence led polic­ing and crime in­ter­ven­tion through our sup­port units like the Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit. Mr. Ben­jamin reem­pha­sised his com­mit­ment to work­ing close­ly with stake­hold­ers to re­duce the in­ci­dence of crime.