Maloney residents make frustration clear at TTPS meeting

De­spite re­as­sur­ances from se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers that peo­ple seek­ing to leave Mal­oney dur­ing cur­few hours for le­git­i­mate rea­sons would be al­lowed to do so, sev­er­al res­i­dents voiced their con­cerns and ex­pressed dis­sat­is­fac­tion dur­ing a T&T Po­lice Ser­vice com­mu­ni­ty sen­si­ti­sa­tion meet­ing last night.

The meet­ing, held at the Mal­oney In­door Sport­ing Fa­cil­i­ty, be­gan just af­ter 7 pm and was in­tend­ed to raise aware­ness of the in­tro­duc­tion of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tion Act with­in the com­mu­ni­ty and how res­i­dents could ap­ply for per­mits to leave the des­ig­nat­ed closed area.

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But be­fore the meet­ing be­gan, is­sues with the roll­out of the SOA were vis­i­ble, as heavy traf­fic along the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way was ob­served from as far west as El So­cor­ro, San Juan.