Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Ju­nior Ben­jamin, met with sev­er­al stake­hold­ers in To­ba­go on his first trip to the is­land since tak­ing up the role.

Among them was the Chief Sec­re­tary, Far­ley Au­gus­tine, Mi­nor­i­ty Leader, Kelvon Mor­ris, Chair­man of the To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber, Mar­tin George as well as mem­bers of the To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce and To­ba­go Hote­liers As­so­ci­a­tion.

The Chief Sec­re­tary ex­pressed his ap­pre­ci­a­tion for the CoP mak­ing To­ba­go his first stop to meet with stake­hold­ers and to dis­cuss mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est. In his dis­cus­sions with the stake­hold­ers, Com­mis­sion­er Ben­jamin re­as­sured them that the TTPS has a tri­par­tite ap­proach to deal­ing with crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. This in­cludes crime pre­ven­tion through var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty pro­grammes and struc­tures such as the Po­lice Youth Clubs, crime sup­pres­sion through in­tel­li­gence led polic­ing and crime in­ter­ven­tion through our sup­port units like the Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit. Mr. Ben­jamin reem­pha­sised his com­mit­ment to work­ing close­ly with stake­hold­ers to re­duce the in­ci­dence of crime.

Ben­jamin al­so took the time to ad­dress of­fi­cers with­in the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion. Re­in­forc­ing his com­mit­ment to sup­port of­fi­cers and sup­ply every­thing need­ed to get the job done, he al­so re­it­er­at­ed his call for of­fi­cers to show their com­mit­ment to ser­vice, by cre­at­ing a wel­com­ing en­vi­ron­ment for the pub­lic.

The act­ing CoP in­clud­ed two of his al­ma maters, Scar­bor­ough Methodist Pri­ma­ry School and the Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School dur­ing his vis­it. The teach­ers at both in­sti­tu­tions ex­pressed over­whelm­ing pride at one of their past stu­dents tak­ing up a po­si­tion in one of the coun­try’s high­est of­fices. The staff and young stu­dents at each school treat­ed Ag. Com­mis­sion­er Ben­jamin to a spe­cial pro­gramme and were proud to en­gage him by shar­ing their de­sires about one day be­com­ing of­fi­cers. He en­cour­aged them to keep an awe­some at­ti­tude de­spite set­backs and they would ac­com­plish their dreams.