Tuesday February 9th, 2010
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St Joseph cops foil robber in Curepe
Published: 24 Aug 2009
Police officers of the newly-formed St Joseph CID have come in for high praise by several business owners in Curepe, after they arrested an armed robber and rescued two employees who were tied up in a furniture store on Friday. It was the officers’ keen observance, while on mobile patrol along the Southern Main Road in Curepe, which led to the arrest of a 22-year-old suspect, seizure of a fully-loaded .38 revolver, and the recovery of stolen loot.
According to a police report, Sgt Ettienne, Cpl Peterson and PCs Ramdeo, John and Newton. of St Joseph CID, were on patrol around 11:30 am, when they observed a man standing in front of Taurus Concepts, a furniture store. Officers said the man was acting in a suspicious manner. The lawmen emerged from the police vehicle and conducted a search on the man. The gun and ammunition were allegedly found tucked in his waist. Police also found a quantity of cash, cell- phones and other items which they believed belonged to other people.
Officers entered the business place and called out to the employees, but got no response. A search was conducted and a male and female employee were found gagged and bound in a room. They told the lawmen that a man had entered the premises earlier, pretending he was a customer, and held them up. The workers told officers they were robbed of an undisclosed sum of cash and personal items.
Officers believed the suspect was waiting on the outside of the building for his accomplices to assist him in stealing thousands of dollars worth of furniture. The man, of Kelly Village in Caroni, was taken to St Joseph CID, where he was expected to be placed on a series of ID parades.
Flashback
The integrity of St Joseph police came into question some days ago, after close to 60 cops were transferred from the station after the discovery of guns, ammunition and drugs stashed in the ceiling at the station.
Police at this station have
Police at this station have to redeem themselves and they have started off on the right foot by doing what police are supposed to do.
Keep up the good work of solving crime.
Yes! The Police working
Yes! The Police working again in our communities. I think that the spell of laziness has been broken.
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Hats of to the St. Joseph
Hats of to the St. Joseph Police for a job well done............
Please remember that this is
Please remember that this is the new and improved St Joseph Police.
Them other police get transferred to your district, so look out...
a lot of "heavily tinted"
a lot of "heavily tinted" vehicles need to be inspected also.
police need to get off their backsides and actually move around. good things happen.
I must again commend the
I must again commend the Police service for a job well done, they are doing very well and i'll invite them all for pelau, curry goat and chicken foot souse, rum and whisky, pone, cake, tamarind ball, sugar cake, tullum, fudge even ice cream if they keep up the good work..
Cautious
Cautious congratulations
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Sgt Ettienne and his team is to be commended for their quick work. However, one arrest does not a turnaround make. This has to be followed by several more arrests, so it becomes a regular pattern, and then a habit. The criminals must find no comfort in the Curepe, St Joseph and St Augustine areas.
For citizens who have been under siege by criminals for so many years (with NO HELP from police), this action must appear to be duplicable, throughout the nation. If police officers, in general, withhold their enthusiasm while on the job, then we citizens, in general, should withhold ours, until we see a REAL turnaround in crime, throughout the country.
Police officers are not children, that we must say "good boy!" each time they do something right. In this case, it appeared that they stumbled onto a crime in progress. This is different to a civilian calling the station for help, and the police responding in a timely manner ("...no vehicles at this time...").
Interestingly, a police officer caught with illegal drugs in his home, has not been charged. If that was a civilian...
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Yes, we all know crime is
Yes, we all know crime is the rampant, some police officers are slackers, some don't care or arrive on time, there has to be change in the service blah blah blah, where are your ideas? None.
Hey Einstein, we all know these things you're not stating anything new, don't be fooled into thinking your providing some sort of education you're just complaining, but some of us still wish to show some appreciation when we hear some good news.
So good stuff on officers, keep it up.
To walk a mile every inch counts.
Good work. But again with
Good work. But again with the identification parades? What purpose do they serve? You have this man dead to rights, with the weapon and the stolen goods and i am sure the store employees immediately id him as the robber and even if they werent sure the fact that he was found in front of the store with a gun and stolen goods from the store links him directly to the crime. Don S. NY
Let me try and answer about
Let me try and answer about these identifcation parades.
In the T&T judicial system, identification of a suspect is key, so much so that in many murder cases, identification by even one eye witness is all the 'evidence' that is needed to take a case to court where of course these eye-witnesses get amnesia and the case thrown out of court. For non-murder cases if a victim cannot identify the suspect that suspect usually walks. It is somewhat of a lazy approach to crime fighting but it is what it is at the moment.
officer, ah jes buy dem
officer, ah jes buy dem tings from a fella who was sellin it cheap.