By Sue-Ann Wayow
REGARDLESS of what crime-fighting measures are put in place by police, unless God intervenes, don’t expect for the measures to work.
Commissioner of Police (CoP) Erla Harewood-Christopher admitted on Wednesday that the nation’s murder rate was too much to be tackled by human intervention alone.
Speaking at a breakfast meeting hosted by the Chaguanas Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CCIC) at Signature Hall in Longdenville, Chaguanas, she asked citizens to call for help from God whomever they perceive him to be.
Harewood-Christopher said, “An evil has spread over the land and we must recognise, those of you who are spiritually inclined, you must recognise that this is beyond the physical and unless we seek the intervention of that greater spirit, whatever we may call him.
“We know we have different religions, so who will call him God, who will call him Allah, or Krishna, all of us, if not all of us, 99% of us believe in a superior being and we need to invoke the help of that being, if we need to really bring Trinidad and Tobago back to that place where we want it to be.
“Because the police can come up with whatever strategy, but unless we enlist the help of God, we will be working in vain.”
The CoP also called on citizens to trust members of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) enough to provide key information that could assist in the solving or prevention of crimes adding that there will be no mercy for rogue cops.
“We are not afraid and we will not stop arresting our own if it becomes necessary,” she said.
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