Trinidad and To­ba­go has launched a two-week ca­nine train­ing course to boost the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to de­tect firearms, com­po­nents, and am­mu­ni­tion at ports, air­ports, and bor­der cross­ings.

The Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty opened the pro­gramme on Mon­day at CSI Ca­nine Con­sult­ing Group Ltd. in St James. It is be­ing de­liv­ered in part­ner­ship with the UN Of­fice on Drugs and Crime (UN­ODC), CSI Ca­nine Con­sult­ing, and sup­port­ed by the Fed­er­al Re­pub­lic of Ger­many.

Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Videsh Ma­haraj called the ini­tia­tive a crit­i­cal in­vest­ment in na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.