Benjamin acts as CoP as Guevarro attends US conference

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin was ap­point­ed to act as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice from yes­ter­day un­til Wednes­day, while Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro leads a Trinidad and To­ba­go del­e­ga­tion at the In­ter­na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Chiefs of Po­lice (IACP) An­nu­al Con­fer­ence and Ex­po­si­tion in Or­lan­do, Flori­da.

De­scribed as the largest law en­force­ment gath­er­ing in the world, the con­fer­ence brings to­geth­er more than 16,000 pub­lic safe­ty pro­fes­sion­als from over 100 coun­tries, in­clud­ing po­lice chiefs, com­mis­sion­ers, sher­iffs, se­nior law en­force­ment ex­ec­u­tives, gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, se­cu­ri­ty prac­ti­tion­ers, aca­d­e­mics and in­dus­try part­ners.

The four-mem­ber lo­cal del­e­ga­tion in­cludes Gue­var­ro; di­rec­tor of the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Ali­cia Hen­ry; As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Crim­i­nal In­tel­li­gence, Andy Tewarie; and US Em­bassy in T&T rep­re­sen­ta­tives Ran­dell Smith and Kel­ley Whit­son.