Po­lice So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, ASP Ish­mael Pitt, says po­lice of­fi­cers have been work­ing con­tin­u­ous­ly with lit­tle re­lief since the 2024 State of Emer­gency (SoE) was de­clared by the pre­vi­ous gov­ern­ment.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Pitt said the de­mands on of­fi­cers have in­ten­si­fied since then, with suc­ces­sive events of na­tion­al con­cern re­quir­ing full mo­bil­i­sa­tion of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), in­clud­ing the re­cent­ly ex­tend­ed SoE.

He said of­fi­cers al­so car­ried the bur­den of polic­ing Car­ni­val ear­li­er this year, the gen­er­al elec­tion, the cur­rent Christ­mas sea­son and prepa­ra­tions for Car­ni­val again ear­ly next year, all while leave re­mains re­strict­ed.