The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has de­fend­ed its de­ploy­ment of mo­bile po­lice units, de­scrib­ing them as a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of its an­ti-crime strat­e­gy amid pub­lic de­bate over the ini­tia­tive.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on Fri­day, the TTPS said mo­bile po­lice units are not a new con­cept, not­ing that they have ex­ist­ed for sev­er­al years but have been up­grad­ed as part of the Gov­ern­ment's strate­gic di­rec­tion for law en­force­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice ser­vice, the new­ly pro­cured mi­cro-po­lice units re­tain their mo­bil­i­ty while of­fer­ing greater op­er­a­tional ca­pac­i­ty. The units can be re­lo­cat­ed across the coun­try with min­i­mal foun­da­tion work and are ca­pa­ble of ac­com­mo­dat­ing more of­fi­cers and ad­vanced tech­nol­o­gy than pre­vi­ous mod­els.