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Sunday, February 23, 2025

Law enforcement going hard against criminals—Minister

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31 days ago
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Police officers on the scene of the killing of Shakeem Nickie, who was shot by police in Dan Kelly, Eastern Quarry Laventille, yesterday.

Police officers on the scene of the killing of Shakeem Nickie, who was shot by police in Dan Kelly, Eastern Quarry Laventille, yesterday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

With four fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings in less than 24 hours, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds says it is as a re­sult of the po­lice go­ing af­ter crim­i­nals.

On Wednes­day af­ter­noon, po­lice killed Sha­keem Nick­ie who, at the time, was in­volved in a chop­ping in­ci­dent at Dan Kel­ly, East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille.

The killing took place some 16 hours af­ter three men were killed by po­lice fol­low­ing their al­leged rob­bery of a gro­cery store.  The men had opened fire on po­lice of­fi­cers while try­ing to make their es­cape.

The Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter says the more po­lice en­gage crim­i­nals, the greater the chances of po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings.

“As the sce­nario un­folds and the po­lice con­front the crim­i­nals, there are go­ing to be more in­ci­dents of con­tact. It's very un­for­tu­nate,” the Min­is­ter said.

He as­sert­ed that law en­force­ment is com­mit­ted to push­ing back against the crim­i­nals.

“Bear in mind that it will all have start­ed with crim­i­nal con­duct, and the Po­lice and the De­fence Force are em­pow­ered un­der our law to push back on the crim­i­nals. One hopes that the crim­i­nals will step back, slow down and take it easy, but if they don’t, law en­force­ment will do what it must,” he said.

Min­is­ter Hinds told Guardian Me­dia he is aware that front­line of­fi­cers are us­ing body cam­eras as ad­vised by the lead­er­ship of the Po­lice Ser­vice and that the cam­eras are be­ing mon­i­tored con­tin­u­ous­ly.


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