{"id":19524,"date":"2018-09-03T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=19524"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:37:41","slug":"trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"TRINIDAD-New Police Commissioner issues warning to criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newly appointed Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has warned criminals that \u201cno street, no community, nowhere in this country is going to be controlled\u201d by them as the police promise to \u2018swing back hard\u2019 in dealing with the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>

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\u201cAny community leader, gang leader, any organisation that has criminal intentions and think they can control any area, we as the Police Service will strike back. If they swing, we will swing back. There is no situation where we will look at a community leader and rub shoulders or feel sympathy for them,\u201d Griffith told reporters after the police ended a two-day \u201cOperation Crime Back\u201d crime fighting exercise on Sunday<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo street, no community, nowhere in this country is going to be controlled by criminals. The Police Service will take control of those communities and ensure that the fundamental rights of citizens are adhered to. That is safety, so anytime criminals think they are in control, we will swing back hard,\u201d he warned.<\/p>

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Griffith, a former national security minister, said over 100 police officers took part in the intelligence-gathering phase of the exercise that resulted in the arrest of at least 24 people.<\/p>

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Griffith said the new \u201cintelligence-driven\u201d anti-crime initiative is intended to do three things, namely ensuring a greater police presence, take away the public\u2019s fear of crime and to \u201cswing\u201d back at criminals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among those arrested were three suspects wanted in connection with last week\u2019s triple murder in Bon Air Gardens, along the east-west corridor.<\/p>

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The police said they had also seized a quantity of arms and ammunition and destroyed 2000 fully-grown marijuana trees and 4000 seedlings.<\/p>\n

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Newly appointed Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has warned criminals that \u201cno street, no community, nowhere in this country is going to be controlled\u201d by them as the police promise to \u2018swing back hard\u2019 in dealing with the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago. \u201cAny community leader, gang leader, any organisation that has criminal intentions and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional"],"yoast_head":"\nTRINIDAD-New Police Commissioner issues warning to criminals - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TRINIDAD-New Police Commissioner issues warning to criminals\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newly appointed Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has warned criminals that \u201cno street, no community, nowhere in this country is going to be controlled\u201d by them as the police promise to \u2018swing back hard\u2019 in dealing with the crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago. \u201cAny community leader, gang leader, any organisation that has criminal intentions and […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-09-03T12:37:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-03T12:37:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Griffith-Gary.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"TRINIDAD-New Police Commissioner issues warning to criminals\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-09-03T12:37:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-03T12:37:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\"},\"wordCount\":277,\"commentCount\":1,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:400\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Griffith-Gary.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Regional\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/trinidad-new-police-commissioner-issues-warning-to-criminals\/\",\"name\":\"TRINIDAD-New Police Commissioner issues warning to criminals - 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