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Thursday, July 3, 2025

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Experts blame lack of trust and technology for T&T's low crime detection rate

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Ac­cord­ing to sta­tis­tics pro­vid­ed by the Po­lice Ser­vice's Crime and Prob­lem Analy­sis Branch (CA­PA), for Jan­u­ary 2011, Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion re­port­ed 15 homi­cides, rep­re­sent­ing the high­est fig­ure than the oth­er eight di­vi­sions. How­ev­er, on­ly one case was de­tect­ed. Cen­tral Di­vi­sion record­ed eight mur­ders, the sec­ond high­est num­ber. Half of that fig­ure was de­tect­ed. South­ern, West­ern, East­ern, and North-East­ern Di­vi­sions each tal­lied four mur­ders, half of which were de­tect­ed in each re­spec­tive area. For the same pe­ri­od last year, West­ern Di­vi­sion record­ed 14 mur­ders, the high­est fig­ure. On­ly three were de­tect­ed. North­ern Di­vi­sion record­ed the sec­ond high­est num­ber of mur­ders with 10, three of which were de­tect­ed.

For Feb­ru­ary 1 to date, there were three mur­ders in Port-of-Spain and North­ern Di­vi­sions each, none of which were de­tect­ed. East­ern and West­ern Di­vi­sions record­ed two mur­ders each, none of which were al­so de­tect­ed. For the same pe­ri­od 2010, there were 18 mur­ders in Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion, rep­re­sent­ing the high­est fig­ure out of all the oth­er di­vi­sions. On­ly one mat­ter was de­tect­ed. Cen­tral Di­vi­sion record­ed the sec­ond high­est fig­ure with nine mur­ders, four of which were de­tect­ed. There were sev­en mur­ders in North­ern Di­vi­sion, one of which was de­tect­ed. West­ern and North East­ern Di­vi­sions record­ed six mur­ders each, two of which were de­tect­ed in each di­vi­sion.


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