The Coali­tion of Con­cerned Pa­tri­ots, led by for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, is a non-po­lit­i­cal and in­for­mal group of ex­perts who want to take back T&T from the crim­i­nal el­e­ments. With an all-hands-on-deck pol­i­cy, the team of ex­perts is ready to pro­vide pol­i­cy sup­port and tech­ni­cal ex­per­tise to aid in na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Pre­sent­ing mem­bers of the group dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Grif­fith said, “The biggest con­cern in T&T at this time, ob­vi­ous­ly, is na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.”

He said the mem­bers were ready and will­ing to work to re­store hope, peace, trust and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty among the pop­u­lace to make T&T bet­ter than it is now.

The group in­cludes busi­ness­man Pe­ter George; firearms ex­pert Paul Na­hous; re­tired Brigadier Carl Al­fon­so; at­tor­ney Nyree Al­fon­so; for­mer deputy po­lice com­mis­sion­ers Jayson Forde and Wayne Dick; for­mer wing Com­man­der Fe­lic­i­ty Di­az; Lt Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al; re­tired Ma­jor Dirk Barnes; re­tired Ma­jor Sar­wan Boodram; at­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la; Dr Stephen Ram­roop; Pas­tor Clive Dot­tin; Dr San­jay Badri-Ma­haraj; for­mer se­cu­ri­ty ad­vis­er Dwight An­drews; and CEO of Heller Se­cu­ri­ty Ser­vices Dwight Williams.

Grif­fith said the last eight months had seen the high­est spike in crime.

In­di­cat­ing the group will pro­vide con­sul­tan­cy ser­vices to in­ter­est­ed en­ti­ties be­cause they care about T&T, Grif­fith said they will al­so be send­ing out cor­re­spon­dence to rel­e­vant agen­cies and min­istries of­fer­ing their as­sis­tance on how best to fight crime.