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Po­lice in To­ba­go said there had been no ar­rests di­rect­ly linked to the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, but of­fi­cers con­tin­ued to make full use of the ex­pand­ed pow­ers grant­ed to them.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie said the is­land’s po­lice force had nev­er stopped op­er­at­ing at a high lev­el of readi­ness, even be­fore the SoE was de­clared.

“We haven’t had the need to re­al­ly ar­rest any­body SoE-re­lat­ed per se. How­ev­er, To­ba­go has al­ways been in a mode of op­er­a­tion, we have sev­er­al dai­ly op­er­a­tions. Since the last SoE, we’ve nev­er stopped be­ing in that op­er­a­tive mode,” Elie said in a phone in­ter­view.