Days af­ter a Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was is­sued for a Guapo teenag­er for firearm of­fences and sus­pect­ed gang af­fil­i­a­tion, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro says he is par­tic­u­lar­ly con­cerned by the in­volve­ment of chil­dren in se­ri­ous crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty.

The le­gal no­tice, is­sued on Tues­day, iden­ti­fied the teen be­ing in­volved in “on­go­ing gang-re­lat­ed con­flict, re­tal­ia­to­ry firearm vi­o­lence and is as­so­ci­at­ed with in­di­vid­u­als en­gaged in or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty” in Guapo, Point Fortin and La Brea. An­oth­er teenag­er, from Tu­na­puna, was placed on a PDO in March.

Speak­ing with re­porters af­ter a fo­rum at the T&T Cham­ber of Com­merce in West­moor­ings yes­ter­day, Gue­var­ro said such sit­u­a­tions war­rant­ed more fo­cus on in­ter­ven­tion for at-risk chil­dren.