Ot­to Car­ring­ton

Po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Di­vi­sion are ask­ing the mo­torists to ad­here to the reg­u­la­tions of the na­tion’s roads over the East­er week­end.

Di­vi­sion­al Head, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Wayne Mys­tar told Guardian Me­dia that for the East­er week­end his of­fi­cers will be on the na­tion’s roads and cit­i­zens and the mo­tor­ing pub­lic must ad­here to the laws.

The Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent was ho­n­our­ing some of his of­fi­cers who were in­stru­men­tal in crime-fight­ing on the na­tion’s road­ways.

“The Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol main­ly deal with road traf­fic breach­es but our of­fi­cers - some of them who were com­mend­ed to­day - they were ac­tu­al­ly award­ed for the re­cov­ery of il­le­gal firearms and last year for the first quar­ter we would have re­cov­ered one firearm and this year we have re­cov­ered six firearms in ad­di­tion to am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics we re­cov­ered by a mem­ber of the Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol,” Mys­tar said.

For East­er week­end, the Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent said he ex­pects to see his of­fi­cers across the coun­try.

“So we will be deal­ing ba­si­cal­ly with the ma­jor ar­ter­ies the Uri­ah But­ler High­way, Churchill Roo­sevelt and Solomon Ho­choy High­ways and even the high­way head­ing to west Trinidad, we would al­so be ren­der­ing sup­port to the North East­ern Di­vi­sion who will have the purview of the beach­es at Mara­cas and Las Cuevas and al­so the West­ern Di­vi­sion and even the East­ern Di­vi­sion and we would al­so have mo­tor­cy­clists to as­sist oth­er of­fi­cers on the roads”, he said.

He con­tin­ued: “Our dri­ving-un­der-the-in­flu­ence tech­ni­cians will be out and our speed tech­ni­cians will be out in full force so we are ask­ing the pub­lic to be very mind­ful of their speed.”