Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­ti­vat­ed what is be­ing de­scribed as the sec­ond phase of her Gov­ern­ment’s crime sup­pres­sion strat­e­gy, fol­low­ing high-lev­el talks with se­nior of­fi­cials from Unit­ed States South­ern Com­mand (SOUTH­COM) in Do­ral, Flori­da, yes­ter­day.

Guardian Me­dia has been told this next phase will place di­rect em­pha­sis on tack­ling crime on the ground in Trinidad and To­ba­go, sig­nalling a fo­cus on tar­get­ed do­mes­tic en­force­ment mea­sures.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment is­sued by the Prime Min­is­ter yes­ter­day, Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing deep­er part­ner­ships and tech­ni­cal co­op­er­a­tion in cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty, foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tions and bal­lis­tic analy­sis to en­hance the coun­try’s abil­i­ty to dis­man­tle crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions and im­prove crime-fight­ing ca­pac­i­ty.