PoS cops promise more patrols after uptick in copper thefts

Po­lice in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion say they have al­so re­port­ed a no­tice­able in­crease in cop­per thefts, in­clud­ing telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions ca­bles and are ini­ti­at­ing height­ened po­lice ac­tiv­i­ties in a bid to quell fur­ther van­dal­ism and thefts of valu­able equip­ment.

The re­sponse comes one day af­ter pres­i­dent of the Down­town Own­ers' and Mer­chants' As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA), Gre­go­ry Aboud, raised con­cerns over the theft of cop­per ma­te­ri­als from busi­ness­es in the cap­i­tal, in­clud­ing a re­port­ed $2 mil­lion worth of pri­vate­ly owned air con­di­tion­ing and elec­tri­cal equip­ment.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia Ltd's ques­tions through the TTPS Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit on Wednes­day, head of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion Snr Supt Ray­mond Thom con­firmed that pre­lim­i­nary da­ta re­flect­ed an in­crease in re­ports of cop­per theft dur­ing the first half of the year com­pared to the same cor­re­spond­ing pe­ri­od in 2025.