At a time when pub­lic con­fi­dence in polic­ing con­tin­ues to face scruti­ny across the re­gion, mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) have brought home ma­jor re­gion­al ho­n­ours af­ter emerg­ing among the Caribbean’s top law en­force­ment pro­fes­sion­als at the 40th An­nu­al Con­fer­ence of the As­so­ci­a­tion of Caribbean Com­mis­sion­ers of Po­lice (AC­CP) in Para­mari­bo, Suri­name.

The TTPS se­cured some of the con­fer­ence’s most pres­ti­gious awards, com­pet­ing against of­fi­cers from 25 Caribbean po­lice ser­vices, in what the or­gan­i­sa­tion de­scribed as a his­toric achieve­ment for Trinidad and To­ba­go polic­ing.

Lead­ing the re­gion­al ac­co­lades was In­spec­tor Tri­cia Smith, who was named Top Caribbean Crime Fight­er for her work in tack­ling fi­nan­cial crimes, cor­rup­tion in­ves­ti­ga­tions and oth­er com­plex crim­i­nal mat­ters. Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, Smith’s in­ves­ti­ga­tions led to nu­mer­ous pros­e­cu­tions and the re­cov­ery of mil­lions of dol­lars in fraud­u­lent as­sets.