The UNC
will tackle the
crime crisis
with intelligence,
competence
and purpose.
We will implement the following anti-crime plans:
1.
Pass 1 Stand-your-ground laws.
3.
Allow for the right to bear arms modify the current legislation to make acquiring firearms by law-abiding citizens easier.
5.
Increase the complement of municipal police.
2.
Create the offence of home invasions.
4.
Change legislation to make gating communities easier.
6.
Restructure the Ministry of National Security.
7.
Introduce Police officers full-time in schools.
8.
Create a Ministry of Home Affairs.
10.
Create a Ministry of Justice .
12.
Provide Diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees
in policing for recruits combined with a police
apprenticeship program.
9.
Create a Ministry of Defence .
11.
Undertake Pre-trial detention reform and bail reform.
13.
Increase the retirement age for the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force to align it with other arms of the protective services.
14.
Implement individual
risk and financial
assessments.
15.
Establish
minimum
security detention
centres.
16.
Implement laws to prevent
incarceration of non-violent
drug offenders (addicts).
17.
Implement
ankle bracelets
and house Arrest
systems with
updated legislation.
18.
Establish state
support for children
of incarcerated
persons.
20.
Implement the revamping of the witness protection program.
22.
Provide personal licensed firearms to active TTPS officers and prison officers.
19.
Establish a fund for children who have lost one or both parents to crime.
21.
Construct a forensic science complex and national security training facility at
the UWI Debe campus.
23.
Ensure the enforcement of the drug
and liquor laws regarding minors.
24.
Enforce a zero-tolerance approach to any physical violence in schools. Any student physically attacking another student must be immediately removed from school and only be allowed to return after completing neuro-diagnostic testing and a proper counselling program approved by the state.
25.
Review legislation to enable citizens to hire private attorneys representing their interests at hearings for party and bar licenses.
26.
Implement legislation for mandatory cut-off time for all public events requiring a dancehall license not held within an enclosed building. Exceptions to be made during the carnival season.
27.
Carry out a performance assessment of social
projects in National Security.
29.
Perform a short-term assessment to identify
the scale of involvement of illegal immigrants in criminal activity.
28.
RestructureCreate a Ministry of social programmes that have become
gang and criminal
activity havens.
30.
Ensure that all schools have the full complement of required Deans of discipline,
Security Officers, and Schools Safety Officers.