The TTPS saw significant results in 2024, despite challenges with existing law, according to Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher.

In her New Year’s greeting, she says a high evidential threshold for the laying of gang related charges has undermined TTPS efforts to improve the detection rate.

Despite this, she says the TTPS made significant progress in 2024 and is renewing its commitment to do better in 2025.

She says, “Yes, we continue to be affected by the dreaded homicide statistic, but we have had significant results. We may not have achieved our targets, but we have made significant progress in our efforts towards achieving them, and even though it may not be immediately apparent, I can assure you that the country has benefitted from it. In this regard the substantial amount of intelligence and operational work done by the TTPS in preventing, detecting and prosecuting crime is not to be underestimated.”