TTPS working with NYPD to strengthen homicide, anti-gang units

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Police Commissioner Gary Griffith with NYPD’s Deputy Inspector of Police, Ray Festino and Sergeant Damon Martin.
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith with NYPD’s Deputy Inspector of Police, Ray Festino and Sergeant Damon Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice is work­ing with the New York Po­lice De­part­ment (NYPD) on strength­en­ing the per­for­mance the po­lice’s homi­cide and an­ti-gang units.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has met with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the NYPD in keep­ing with the Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MOU) be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the New York Po­lice De­part­ment (NYPD).

The meet­ing took place at the Of­fice of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port of Spain yester­day.

The Po­lice Ser­vice said that dis­cus­sions cen­tred on co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the TTPS and NYPD which aims to build ca­pac­i­ty through train­ing and ed­u­ca­tion, shar­ing of best prac­tices for law en­force­ment and ex­change of in­tel­li­gence and in­for­ma­tion.

Grif­fith wel­comed NYPD’s Deputy In­spec­tor of Po­lice, Ray Fes­ti­no and Sergeant Da­mon Mar­tin and stat­ed that he “looks for­ward to the fu­ture growth of the TTPS and a mu­tu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial re­la­tion­ship with the NYPD.”

In the MOU which was signed in 2018 by Grif­fith in New York, both par­ties agreed to co­op­er­ate in pre­vent­ing crim­i­nal acts re­lat­ing to: Drug Traf­fick­ing, Ter­ror­ism, Hu­man Traf­fick­ing, Cy­ber-crime, Mon­ey Laun­der­ing and Arms Smug­gling.