Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion Pres­i­dent Deryck Richard­son has crit­i­cised the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­sponse to the killing of mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer Anusha Ever­s­ley, de­scrib­ing her state­ment to the na­tion as “dis­ap­point­ing”.

Richard­son said the Prime Min­is­ter’s at­tempt to dis­tin­guish be­tween a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) of­fi­cer and a Trinidad and To­ba­go Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Ser­vice (TTMPS) of­fi­cer cre­at­ed the im­pres­sion that she was seek­ing to di­min­ish the role and val­ue of mu­nic­i­pal po­lice.

Speak­ing dur­ing a Face­book Live dis­cus­sion with the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice (MSJ) and the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), Richard­son posit­ed: