The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has called for com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the im­ple­men­ta­tion and im­pact of Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions as the Gov­ern­ment moves to use the mea­sure in re­sponse to crime.

In a state­ment, the Cham­ber said it not­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ten­tion to de­ploy ZOSO as part of its se­cu­ri­ty re­sponse. The or­gan­i­sa­tion said crime and pub­lic safe­ty re­main is­sues for na­tion­al sta­bil­i­ty and eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty.

The Cham­ber stat­ed that any spe­cial se­cu­ri­ty mea­sure should be im­ple­ment­ed with­in de­fined time frames and as part of a wider strat­e­gy that in­cludes so­cial and eco­nom­ic con­sid­er­a­tions. It said the pri­vate sec­tor is fo­cused on how ZOSO mea­sures may af­fect com­mer­cial ac­tiv­i­ty.