Chester Sam­bra­no

The Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs (AGLA) says it rec­og­nizes the cru­cial part that da­ta plays in the de­vel­op­ment of leg­is­la­tion to as­sist in the fight against crime and there­fore ful­ly sup­ports the Caribbean Firearms Study 2023.

The study was con­duct­ed by The CARI­COM Im­ple­men­ta­tion Agency for Crime and Se­cu­ri­ty (IM­PACS) and was re­leased to­day.

In a me­dia re­lease, the AGLA said it looks for­ward to the con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with CARI­COM IM­PACS and its part­ners in an ef­fort to pro­vide a safe coun­try to the cit­i­zen­ry of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The AGLA said the study in­tends to pro­vide in­for­ma­tion that will help shape poli­cies to ad­dress the scope and scale of chal­lenges as­so­ci­at­ed with firearms in the Caribbean by pro­vid­ing in­sights in­to and as­sess­ments of such is­sues.

It said these is­sues in­clude hold­ings in the re­gion, il­lic­it arms and am­mu­ni­tion flows, med­ical costs of firearms vi­o­lence and oth­er emerg­ing firearms is­sues.