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Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro says the State of Emergency is not to be thanked for the reduction in crime in Port-of-Spain. Rather, he says the astute leadership of the police officers in the division have brought the resultant decline.
Speaking at the opening of a City Police Post on the Brian Lara Promenade, Port-of-Spain, yesterday, Guevarro said last year at this time, there were 400 robberies in the capital. This year, he said, the figure stands at 258. He said the reduction was due to the leadership of ACP Garvin Henry and Snr Supt Raymond Thom, who worked with the City Police in addressing crime.
“It’s a collaborative effort that has kept crime down. And I know they would say, ‘Oh, we’re in a SoE.’ Anybody here feels that they’re in a SoE? The Government could agree to hold ten SoEs from now till thy kingdom come, but if it is that the persons in uniform around here, from the last joined recruit to the most senior, decide to sit in an office and not do anything, you think crime would have been down? It’ll just be crime during an SoE. That would benefit no one,” he said.
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