Po­lice ar­rest­ed 709 peo­ple for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of­fences in 2025, mark­ing the high­est num­ber of DUI-re­lat­ed ar­rests record­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go since 2019.

Ac­cord­ing to fig­ures from the Crime and Prob­lem Analy­sis Branch of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, 662 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for ex­ceed­ing the pre­scribed breath al­co­hol lim­it, while 47 were ar­rest­ed for fail­ing to sup­ply a breath spec­i­men for analy­sis.

The da­ta showed a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease from 2024, when 587 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for DUI of­fences. The 2025 fig­ure rep­re­sents an in­crease of 122 ar­rests year-on-year.