More police manpower has been sent to Tobago to ramp up responses to an upsurge in criminal activity in the sister isle over the past few months.
Officers from Trinidad have been sent to the Tobago Division to provide reinforcement as police brace for reprisal killings as gang activity continues to escalate on the island.
Just this past Wednesday, Tobago recorded its 13th murder, of which 12 were committed with guns. On Wednseday, around 1 am, gunmen shot at a group of people liming outside a bar in Bon Accord. Fritz Alleyne, 61 and Akeim Frith, 33, reportedly a member of the Sixx Gang in Tobago, were killed while another man was injured. The day before, 39-year-old mother of two Jenelle Thomas-Stowe was killed in her Signal Hill home. Police said it was a case of domestic violence. Her body was found burnt in a drain with her hand and feet bound.
The TTPS in a release on Saturday said: “This strategy comes to support the goal of increased safety and security during this Christmas season and beyond.