Tobago Police Report SOE Success

Tobago's security officials have ramped up their stop and search exercises and are yielding results, since the government's announcement of a state of emergency across the nation. This according to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Oswain Subero. The Tobago House of Assembly held a security stakeholder meeting on Thursday. ACP Subero said the presence of firearms in Tobago is a major concern for security officials. He informed that a specific strategy has been implemented by the Tobago Division to address this. "We have been able to detain persons and we’ve been able to charge persons and recover the number one thing that we wanted firearms. Only on the last day of the year we recovered two firearms. So it is our drive in 2025 to remove as much firearms off the island of Tobago." ACP Subero noted officers of the Tourism Oriented Policing Unit have also been enlightened on considerations to be given to tourists as the officers conduct their exercises. "We intend to bring in some training so that younger officers will have a better idea on how to interact with the tourists and even make it easier for communication. We have the barcode system when the tourists come so the just take a picture and they have all the information they need for the island is on it but we have been seeing some success some we cant discuss here and we look forward to the Parliament making a decision on how long the state of emergency will be."