Police record 40,000 larceny reports in six years but detect fewer than 8,000

Po­lice record­ed more than 40,000 re­ports un­der the Lar­ce­ny Act over al­most six years. How­ev­er, few­er than 8,000 of­fences led to a sus­pect be­ing ar­rest­ed and charged.

The re­ports in­clud­ed rob­bery, theft, fraud and break-ins. Be­tween 1 Jan­u­ary 2021 and 30 Sep­tem­ber 2026, po­lice record­ed 40,846 of­fences. Of these, 7,924 were list­ed as de­tect­ed. That leaves 32,922 of­fences, or 80.6 per cent, not record­ed as de­tect­ed.

At­tor­ney Keron Ramkhal­whan ob­tained the fig­ures un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act for his client, Vishal Per­sad. They were pre­pared by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s Crime and Prob­lem Analy­sis Branch. The fig­ures are dat­ed 27 Oc­to­ber 2026 and are pro­vi­sion­al, mean­ing they may be re­vised.