The Ser­vice Sta­tion Own­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (ODA) has raised ques­tions about the in­tro­duc­tion of li­dar speed en­force­ment de­vices by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), say­ing the move comes at a time when ba­sic re­sources re­main lim­it­ed at some po­lice sta­tions such as print­ers, re­ceipt books and oth­er es­sen­tial ad­min­is­tra­tive items.

In a state­ment, ODA Pres­i­dent Reval Chat­ter­goon wel­comed the ad­di­tion of new en­force­ment tools but con­trast­ed it with re­port­ed short­ages of ba­sic sup­plies al­so ques­tioned the lack of dis­clo­sure around the cost of the new de­vices, say­ing pro­cure­ment de­tails were not made pub­lic. It crit­i­cised what it de­scribed as a pat­tern of clas­si­fy­ing state spend­ing as “sen­si­tive” or “con­fi­den­tial”, point­ing to past re­quests for in­for­ma­tion on fu­el sub­si­dies.

The ODA fur­ther raised con­cern that na­tion­al crime sta­tis­tics re­main un­avail­able on the TTPS web­site, not­ing that the is­sue was pre­vi­ous­ly at­trib­uted by the Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter in No­vem­ber 2025 to undis­closed tech­ni­cal prob­lems.