PRO of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the PNM Kwe­si Des Vi­gnes said al­though To­ba­go has record­ed nine mur­ders for 2019, the is­land has seen an in­crease in the de­tec­tion of crime on the is­land.

Speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence held on Fri­day morn­ing Des Vi­gnes said, res­i­dents, had a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to sup­port the po­lice and re­port crimes

“We had an un­for­tu­nate in­ci­dent this morn­ing (re­fer­ring to the mur­der of se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Mark Nurse) but in gen­er­al what we are see­ing is the de­tec­tion rate of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion of the Po­lice Ser­vice in­crease by five per cent over last year and that on­ly came be­cause of the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the pub­lic.”

He al­so called for as­sis­tance in bring­ing the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice.

“So my call right now is that any­one here in To­ba­go who has any in­for­ma­tion that they wish to share with the po­lice that would lead to the ar­rest and the per­sons re­spon­si­ble for the heinous crimes this morn­ing to be brought to jus­tice. Please come for­ward, please go to the po­lice, call 800-TIPS if you have to,” he said.

On Fri­day morn­ing, se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer Mark Nurse was shot dead near Pen­ny Saver’s gro­cery. An­oth­er se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cer was al­so shot but re­mains in hos­pi­tal.

Up to Fri­day af­ter­noon, no one was held in con­nec­tion with Nurse’s mur­der, how­ev­er, of­fi­cers from the To­ba­go Homi­cide Bu­reau were pur­su­ing cer­tain leads.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.