Carisa Lee

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has met with the Joint Busi­ness Cham­bers in to build con­sen­sus around work­able mea­sures to re­duce crime.

The meet­ing took place on Wednes­day at the TT Cham­bers of­fice in West Moor­ings and both par­ties dis­cussed pos­si­ble ar­eas of col­lab­o­ra­tion, pol­i­cy, leg­isla­tive and op­er­a­tional mea­sures that can be im­ple­ment­ed to sup­port the op­er­a­tions of the po­lice.

The Joint Cham­bers which in­clude the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce, the En­er­gy Cham­ber, the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion main­tain the view that crime, and in par­tic­u­lar vi­o­lent crimes, con­tin­ues to spi­ral out of con­trol.

The cham­bers added that it is the sin­gle biggest de­ter­rent to in­vest­ment in, and to do­ing busi­ness in this coun­try and ad­dress­ing it must be the num­ber one pri­or­i­ty of the gov­ern­ment.

The Joint Cham­bers agreed that the con­tin­ued strength­en­ing of the PCA as an in­de­pen­dent in­sti­tu­tion plays a sig­nif­i­cant role in the over­all crime fight­ing strat­e­gy.