A se­nior Unit­ed States of­fi­cial Mon­day said op­er­a­tional suc­cess­es re­quire sus­tained in­tel­li­gence shar­ing, tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise, and the kind of trust that on­ly comes from work­ing side-by-side over time.

Ad­dress­ing the five-day re­gion­al work­shop joint­ly fa­cil­i­tat­ed by the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) Im­ple­men­ta­tion Agency for Crime and Se­cu­ri­ty (IM­PACS) and the US State De­part­ment’s Bu­reau of In­ter­na­tion­al Nar­cotics and Law En­force­ment Af­fairs (INL),

Chargé d’Af­faires of the US Em­bassy in T&T, Michael Fitz­patrick, urged par­tic­i­pants in a firearms traf­fick­ing work­shop to make the most of net­work­ing and joint train­ing ex­pe­ri­ences to bet­ter ad­dress gun crime in the re­gion.