British to help in Police Service manpower audit

Dr Rowley made this known during an address at the opening of the newly constructed St Joseph Police Station adding that government has approached the British to conduct the audit.

“We now know that there is not a shortage of police officers on the ground,” said the Prime Minister. “One of the things that is required is a proper and comprehensive across the board assessment of what is our policing manpower, how we have deployed them and how we can re-deploy them under the current circumstances to get the best result.” Rowley explained that during his time as Opposition Leader he sent Fitzgerald Hinds to a place which had a similar population and similar size to Trinidad and Tobago, to see how they handled their policing and if anything could be learnt from their practices.

One of the most important things that was learnt from the trip was that there was considerably less police officers in Fairfax, as compared to the number in Trinidad and Tobago.

In fact it was discovered that Trinidad and Tobago held far more police officers per hundred thousand citizens than the international standard.

It was because of these discoveries that the Prime Minister approached the British to conduct the audit.