SAN­DRA L BLOOD

In a ges­ture that blend­ed com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing with cul­tur­al rev­er­ence, of­fi­cers of the East­ern Di­vi­sion Com­mu­ni­ty Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Sec­tion (ED­COPS) paid trib­ute to two of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­dur­ing ca­lyp­so stal­warts ear­li­er this month, pre­sent­ing them with their “flow­ers” while they can still en­joy their fra­grance.

On Feb­ru­ary 12, ED­COPS of­fi­cers vis­it­ed the home of vet­er­an mul­ti-Monarch Broth­er Valenti­no (An­tho­ny Em­rold Phillip), ho­n­our­ing the 84-year-old icon for his decades of ded­i­cat­ed ser­vice to ca­lyp­so and coun­try. The ini­tia­tive, spear­head­ed by WPC Ryan and over­seen by ED­COPS head Corp Al­fred, forms part of on­go­ing com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ments with­in the East­ern Di­vi­sion.