‘Fake bad man meet real bad man’- PM warns Maloney gangs

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has vowed to use Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions to put down gangs op­er­at­ing in Mal­oney, de­clar­ing that her Gov­ern­ment will do what­ev­er it takes to pro­tect res­i­dents from vi­o­lence and in­tim­i­da­tion.

In a strong­ly word­ed so­cial me­dia post, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Gov­ern­ment would con­tin­ue de­ploy­ing se­cu­ri­ty forces in the com­mu­ni­ty, in­clud­ing through spe­cial op­er­a­tions, to con­front gangs ac­cused of ter­ror­is­ing res­i­dents.

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Her com­ments fol­lowed a se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tion launched on Tues­day night in­volv­ing mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) and the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) in Mal­oney, with­in Po­lice Dis­trict Two.