TTPS records 265 homicides in first nine months of 2026

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) record­ed 265 homi­cides be­tween Jan­u­ary and Sep­tem­ber this year, a 3.6 per cent de­crease com­pared with the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2025 and a 44.2 per cent de­cline com­pared with 2024.

The fig­ures were re­leased yes­ter­day by the TTPS in its Third Quar­ter 2026 Pub­lic Per­for­mance Ap­praisal, which com­pares the ser­vice's per­for­mance over the first nine months of 2026 with the cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­ods in the pre­vi­ous two years.

The re­port al­so showed a de­cline in se­ri­ous re­port­ed crime and road traf­fic ac­ci­dents, with the po­lice ser­vice de­scrib­ing the fig­ures as ev­i­dence of progress while ac­knowl­edg­ing sev­er­al ar­eas re­quir­ing con­tin­ued at­ten­tion.