The new St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion of­fi­cial­ly opened yes­ter­day.   Dur­ing his wel­come ad­dress Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Ag.), Mc Don­ald Ja­cob, said that the open­ing of this sta­tion is in keep­ing with “the de­mand for im­proved op­er­a­tional ex­cel­lence and ser­vice to the com­mu­ni­ty”. 

The open­ing cer­e­mo­ny was at­tend­ed by Prime Min­is­ter, Dr  Kei­th Row­ley, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North and St. Ann’s West, Stu­art Young and Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert.

The Prime Min­is­ter stat­ed that "ex­er­cis­es like this, are geared at equip­ping the Po­lice Ser­vice to fo­cus on serv­ing the pop­u­la­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go the way they should be served."

Ac­cord­ing top the Ag. Com­mis­sion­er the St Clair Sta­tion boasts a suite of ser­vices from the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD), which in­cludes the Gen­der-Based Vi­o­lence Unit (GB­VU), the Sex­u­al Of­fences Unit and the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit (CPU) along­side the core ser­vices of a po­lice sta­tion. 

It al­so  con­tains a ju­ve­nile book­ing cen­tre with ju­ve­nile hold­ing suites, an Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion Pa­rade Room and an in­ter­view room. He al­so re­marked that the sta­tion was specif­i­cal­ly re-mod­i­fied to cater to the needs of the po­lice of­fi­cers and their clients with ameni­ties con­ducive to a safe and com­fort­able en­vi­ron­ment for in­ter­ven­tions, in­ter­views and in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

In clos­ing, CoP (Ag.) Ja­cob urged the of­fi­cers to take care of this new fa­cil­i­ty they call home, “Take care of your fa­cil­i­ty, but more im­por­tant­ly, take care of your­self, each oth­er, and this great com­mu­ni­ty.” Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds, shared that the sta­tion is strate­gi­cal­ly lo­cat­ed and in­tend­ed to sup­port the net­work of sta­tions in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion. 

He stat­ed the dis­trict of St. Clair is var­ied, and the sta­tion's pur­pose is to make the po­lice of­fi­cers more ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic. He fur­ther com­mend­ed the Prime Min­is­ter on his ini­tia­tive to re­de­vel­op sev­er­al po­lice sta­tions dur­ing his tenure.