The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) on Fri­day launched its Diplo­mat­ic Se­cu­ri­ty Unit, which Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says is about demon­strat­ing to the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty that the coun­try ho­n­ours its oblig­a­tions un­der the Vi­en­na Con­ven­tion.

CoP Gue­var­ro told the cer­e­mo­ny that Trinidad and To­ba­go al­so re­spects the “in­vi­o­la­bil­i­ty of diplo­mat­ic mis­sions, and val­ues the re­la­tion­ships that diplo­ma­cy makes pos­si­ble.

He said that the unit’s func­tions will in­clude man­ag­ing protests demon­stra­tions to bal­ance free ex­pres­sion with the du­ty to pro­tect mis­sions.