POLICE BUDGET TRIPLES

Akash Sama­roo

At the dawn of spe­cial op­er­a­tions in des­ig­nat­ed di­vi­sions and the Gov­ern­ment’s promise of hard­er polic­ing, de­vel­op­ment fund­ing for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is set to more than triple to $230.5 mil­lion, with sub­stan­tial boosts for spe­cial­ist units, sta­tions, ve­hi­cles and equip­ment.

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The in­for­ma­tion is de­tailed in the Draft Es­ti­mates of Re­cur­rent Ex­pen­di­ture, Draft Es­ti­mates of De­vel­op­ment Pro­gramme and Pub­lic Sec­tor In­vest­ment Plan (PSIP), which were pre­sent­ed fol­low­ing the Bud­get de­bate in Par­lia­ment on Mon­day, where Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo de­tailed $63.368B fis­cal pack­age.