Lee An­na Ma­haraj

leean­na.ma­haraj@guardian.co.tt

While J'ou­vert cel­e­bra­tions have con­clud­ed in ma­jor ar­eas in Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Po­lice Ser­vice says the event has been a suc­cess as they re­port­ed lit­tle to no in­ci­dents.

TTPS Gold Com­man­der, ACP Kelvern Thomp­son said the strong pres­ence of of­fi­cers con­tributed to the de­ter­rence of se­ri­ous of­fences.

“Dili­gent and in­tel­li­gent led pa­trols along with CCTV-led sur­veil­lance has iden­ti­fied known per­sons of in­ter­est and of­fi­cers were able to de­ter them from com­mit­ting fur­ther ar­restable of­fences. We can say that this has been a re­sult of our col­lab­o­ra­tion which would in­clude our mas­quer­aders who have been very co­op­er­a­tive,” he said.

Thomp­son added that sev­er­al weapons were seized by the TTPS out­side ar­eas of cel­e­bra­tion and some peo­ple were ar­rest­ed.

He thanked mas­quer­aders for co­op­er­at­ing with the au­thor­i­ties.