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Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has is­sued a warn­ing to the pub­lic af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice re­port­ed an in­crease in on­line posts con­tain­ing threats of vi­o­lence, in­clud­ing threats aimed at pub­lic of­fi­cials.

In a state­ment, Com­mis­sion­er Gue­var­ro said the TTPS has tak­en note of so­cial me­dia users who have is­sued threats against in­di­vid­u­als and groups. He said free­dom of ex­pres­sion al­lows cit­i­zens to share views, but that right does not cov­er con­duct that cross­es in­to crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. He re­mind­ed the pub­lic that no per­son is per­mit­ted to in­cite vi­o­lence, in­tim­i­date oth­ers, or use dig­i­tal plat­forms to is­sue threats.

Gue­var­ro point­ed to the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions 2025, not­ing that para­graph 2 of the Sched­ule grants the Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty the au­thor­i­ty to is­sue a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der. He said this may be ap­plied to per­sons whose on­line ac­tiv­i­ty in­cites vi­o­lence, en­cour­ages in­ter­fer­ence, or places na­tion­al safe­ty at risk.