{"id":11998,"date":"2018-01-30T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2018-01-30T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:04:10","slug":"trinidad-records-bloodiest-january-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-records-bloodiest-january-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"TRINIDAD records bloodiest January in history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) Monday appealed for support from law-abiding citizens as the twin-island republic recorded the highest number of murders in the month of January for any one year.<\/p>

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At least 59 people were murdered here since the start of the year, surpassing the 2008 figure for January when 57 people were killed.<\/p>\n

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Acting Police Commissioner, Stephen Williams, speaking on a television programme, said that despite the police seizing more than 1,000 illegal weapons, the country\u2019s porous borders were making easy for the illegal guns to enter the country.<\/p>

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\u201cThey are coming from the USA, they are coming from Latin America generally and therefore our challenge is how we secure our borders against the entry of those weapons.<\/p>

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\u201cThe Trinidad and Tobago Police Service has focused on firearms seizure as a critical area of our consideration and we have been annually increasing the number of firearms seized in Trinidad and Tobago\u201d.<\/p>\n

Williams said that the seizure of 1,064 weapons last year \u201cis way beyond my wildest dream (in) that we would have been ever able to seize in excess of a thousand firearms in Trinidad and Tobago\u201d.<\/p>

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Williams said despite the record seizure it has failed to dent in the number of gun-related crimes here including murder, reiterating an earlier position that law enforcement agencies need public assistance in order to deal with th4e escalating criminal activities.<\/p>\n

He said the seizure \u201chas not alone necessary impacted our violent crime situation and we are exploring different strategies clearly geared towards ensuring that we can create a safer environment.<\/p>

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\u201cBut it is tough business,\u201d he said, noting that he had listened to a former police commissioner speaking to the Joint Select Committee of Parliament and he \u2018was emphasising in addressing our situation that we have to look at it in a broad context.<\/p>

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\u201cAgencies like the police service are just addressing one form of social control but we have a broader consideration to look at, the issues of around the family, the church, education, the community, all those are key institutions of social control,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said these institutions must be strengthened if the country is to win the battle against crime.<\/p>\n

Last year, Trinidad and Tobago recorded a total of 494 murders, as against 463 the previous year.<\/p>\n

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