Top cop mum on Special Operations plans

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) al­ready knows which ar­eas will re­ceive greater at­ten­tion un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act, but he is not pre­pared to dis­close where those op­er­a­tions will be fo­cused.

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia’s ques­tions af­ter a grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny for more than 100 po­lice of­fi­cers who par­tic­i­pat­ed in ad­vanced law en­force­ment skills train­ing at the Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my, St James, yes­ter­day, Gue­var­ro de­clined to iden­ti­fy the com­mu­ni­ties that would be tar­get­ed for en­hanced crime-fight­ing op­er­a­tions.

“If I were to give you that (in­for­ma­tion), peo­ple would then start to move out and pre­pare them­selves for the po­lice.