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The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has com­mend­ed the pub­lic for its co­op­er­a­tion and ad­her­ence to the rule of law dur­ing Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin said law en­force­ment agents ex­e­cut­ed their man­date with “pre­ci­sion and pro­fes­sion­al­ism” dur­ing the process. He said de­spite the hand­ful of elec­tion-day ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties that had been re­port­ed, “the elec­tion process was con­duct­ed in a peace­ful, safe, and or­der­ly man­ner, al­low­ing the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go to ex­er­cise their de­mo­c­ra­t­ic rights with­out fear or dis­rup­tion.”

One week be­fore the elec­tion, se­nior po­lice of­fi­cials re­vealed they were in­ves­ti­gat­ing cer­tain in­tel­li­gence that sug­gest­ed plans were afoot to dis­rupt the elec­toral process.