Off-duty officers will soon be allowed to go home with their firearms, Police Commissioner Allister Guevarro has said.

He said yesterday that the move was part of a policy shift aimed at strengthening the operational capacity of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and ensuring the safety of law enforcement personnel at all times.

“It is my intention to institute an off-duty firearm policy where I will be arming all of my frontline, tactical, and operational officers,” he said. “In the past, even after they treat with a criminal, they would have to sign off their weapons. Well let me tell allyuh, my officers will not have to sign off their guns again,” he said while speaking on TV6’s Beyond the Tape programme.