Police, teachers need training

Prospective police officers and teachers need to attend UWI for human relations courses for a minimum of two years after sitting SEA.

They also need six weeks additional training each year to be able to assess the capability of these individuals to keep these important jobs that shape the future of our beautiful islands.

The background of some of those who want to be police officers and teachers is the same as the criminals, so we need to address this immediately.

In 2003, I remember hearing about people who witnessed a crime, went to report it, and saw the same criminals enter the station, go behind the desk and put down their guns. The witnesses left quietly.

A newspaper report last week stated there are 25 to 35 schools with students in criminal gangs, and 12 police stations in northern Trinidad which over the last three years have the most negative complaints made against those policemen by the public.

This did not happen overnight. Where were our Ministers of Education and National Security? This must have taken a minimum of ten years to reach this destructive point.

We sent back the Canadian policeman because we want a Trini in his place, and this is the present situation.

This place real jokey.

Patricia Blades via email