Police warn against vigilante action against sex offenders

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is warn­ing the pub­lic against tak­ing vig­i­lante ac­tion against sex of­fend­ers who may be liv­ing in their com­mu­ni­ties.

Speak­ing at yes­ter­day’s week­ly me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing in Port-of-Spain, TTPS pub­lic in­for­ma­tion of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell urged peo­ple to let good sense pre­vail and re­port any con­cerns to the po­lice im­me­di­ate­ly.

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The pub­lic can ac­cess the Pub­lic Sex Of­fend­er Web­site, which iden­ti­fies sex of­fend­ers and gives the lo­cal­i­ty where they live. Rus­sell said it should be used on­ly as “a tool for aware­ness and the pro­tec­tion of our chil­dren and fam­i­lies.”