In re­sponse to the spate of killings, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in­tends to call out all of­fi­cers who are off-du­ty as it mounts na­tion­wide ex­er­cis­es to flush out crim­i­nals.

A state­ment from the Po­lice Ser­vice on Mon­day stat­ed that Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith had not­ed the homi­cide rate had spiked with eight homi­cides in the past 24 to 36 hours, af­ter a three-day pe­ri­od of not a sin­gle homi­cide be­ing record­ed in the coun­try.

The TTPS stat­ed that the mur­ders were now en­gag­ing their at­ten­tion and that a num­ber of key polic­ing strate­gies have gone in­to im­me­di­ate ef­fect and will con­tin­ue over the com­ing days to in­crease se­cu­ri­ty.

Among the mea­sures the TTPS stat­ed are de­ten­tion of sus­pects in shoot­ing in­ci­dents, every avail­able po­lice of­fi­cer will be out on the streets con­duct­ing sta­t­ic and foot pa­trols, all Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol ve­hi­cles will be on pa­trol, of­fi­cers who are cur­rent­ly on days off have been called out on du­ty, road­blocks and stop and search­es, joint po­lice and army pa­trols and of­fi­cers have been called up­on to per­form ad­di­tion­al hours of work.