Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne wants cit­i­zens and tourists to know the city is open and safe this Christ­mas sea­son, with a 24/7 po­lice pres­ence on In­de­pen­dence Square and its en­vi­rons.

Al­leyne made the an­nounce­ment at the launch of the Christ­mas in D Square open-air mar­ket on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade yes­ter­day, re­veal­ing that city po­lice had al­ready made an ar­rest fol­low­ing the open­ing of the new po­lice post on the prom­e­nade last Fri­day.

“There was one in­ci­dent that I’m aware of where the po­lice were able to re­spond im­me­di­ate­ly and ap­pre­hend the per­pe­tra­tor...So I want to con­grat­u­late that city po­lice of­fi­cer for that dili­gence. It was an at­tempt­ed rob­bery, and the city po­lice were on site, be­ing able to take ac­tion im­me­di­ate­ly,” Al­leyne said.