The UNC will tackle the crime crisis with intelligence, competence and purpose.
The UNC will tackle the crime crisis with intelligence, competence and purpose.
Anti crime Plans
and policies.
Anti crime Plans
and policies.
Our Plans
We will implement the following anti-crime plans:
Pass 1 Stand-your-ground laws.
Create the offence of home invasions
Allow for the right to bear arms or modify the current legislation to make acquiring firearms by law-abiding citizens easier
Change legislation to make gating communities easier.
Increase the complement of municipal police.
Introduce Police officers full-time in schools.
Restructure the Ministry of National Security
Create a Ministry of Home Affairs.
Create a Ministry of Defence.
Create a Ministry of Justice.
Increase the retirement age for the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force to align it with other arms of the protective services.
Provide Diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees in policing for recruits combined with a police apprenticeship program.
Undertake Pre-trial detention reform and bail reform.
Implement individual risk and financial assessments.
Establish minimum security detention centres.
Implement laws to prevent incarceration of non-violent drug offenders (addicts).
Implement ankle bracelets and house Arrest systems with updated legislation.
Establish state support for children of incarcerated persons.
Establish a fund for children who have lost one or both parents to crime.
Implement the revamping of the witness protection program.
Construct a forensic science complex and national security training facility at the UWI Debe campus.
Provide personal licensed firearms to active TTPS officers and prison officers.
Ensure the enforcement of the drug and liquor laws regarding minors.
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.
Review legislation to enable citizens to hire private attorneys representing their interests at hearings for party and bar licenses.
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.
Carry out a performance assessment of social projects in National Security.
Restructure social programmes that have become gang and criminal activity havens.
Perform a short-term assessment to identify the scale of involvement of illegal immigrants in criminal activity.
Ensure that all schools have the full complement of required Deans of discipline, Security Officers, and Schools Safety Officers.
Ensure staffing in the full complement of student support services, which constitutes guidance counsellors, guidance officers, and school social workers, with educational, behavioural, and clinical psychologists looking after our students in need.
Introduce proper and continuous testing and Neuro-diagnostics of children to test for special needs.
Introduce a financial incentive program for dedicated and high-performing teachers based on students’ end-of-term examination results across all levels.
Introduce the anonymous anti-bullying app for students to make reports.
Introduce parent patrols in schools.
Implement a policy whereby all students must undergo free, mandatory, annual physical and medical screening by state-approved public and private medical doctors to examine for physical abuse, substance abuse, sexual abuse, malnutrition, and diseases.
Ensure after-school meals for children who apply, which is to be supplied by the school feeding program.
Establish community mediation services.
Establish free Counselling sessions.
Establish parental support groups for single parents and victims of family violence
Implement peer mediation.
Implement parenting workshops to address parent-child conflict, parental rejection, parental communication, proper parental supervision, and identification of criminal behaviours in children.
Establish a fund for faith-based weekly community mentoring and guidance programs.
Ensure that through the Ministry of Local Government, all councillors would oversee the formation of a “community support council” in each PD of their electoral district.
Strengthen a rebranded highway patrol unit.
Properly staff the E999 call centre.
Reactivate the community comfort patrols.
Increase and maintain CCTV cameras throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
Properly support the Transnational Organized Crime Unit.
Increase covert operations at the seaports and airports.
Enhance and fully reimplement The National Operations Centre.
Install Security Electronic Billboards.
Integrate a fully Computerized crime statistics and reporting [COMPSTAT] system to include:
- Computerized vehicle maintenance and service records.
- Computerization of all Police stations and provision of internet access via NOC data.
- Equipping every Police vehicle with GPS and link via NOC.