Known gang leaders awarded State contracts’
Story Updated: Jan 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM ECT
WE are currently “impaled on the horns of a dilemma†where the acting Police Commissioner has signalled his exasperation with “known†gang leaders being awarded State contracts yet these individuals are not being arrested, Police Service Commission (PSC) member Martin George said yesterday.
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday appeared before the PSC for in a meeting that lasted around one hour.The meeting was held at the PSC head office at the corner of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and Pasea Main Road in Tunapuna.
At the meeting Williams expressed concerns about State contracts being awarded to alleged gang members and gang leaders, George said.Williams said this trend has increased criminality and needed to be taken seriously, George said.
The issue was prevalent especially in Laventille and Morvant where some 25 per cent of the 407 murders committed last year occurred.
PSC chairman Prof Ramesh Deosaran described it as a “criminogenic situationâ€.
Deosaran said both Williams and the PSC are concerned over the situation.
Story Updated: Jan 10, 2014 at 11:29 AM ECT
WE are currently “impaled on the horns of a dilemma†where the acting Police Commissioner has signalled his exasperation with “known†gang leaders being awarded State contracts yet these individuals are not being arrested, Police Service Commission (PSC) member Martin George said yesterday.
Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday appeared before the PSC for in a meeting that lasted around one hour.The meeting was held at the PSC head office at the corner of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and Pasea Main Road in Tunapuna.
At the meeting Williams expressed concerns about State contracts being awarded to alleged gang members and gang leaders, George said.Williams said this trend has increased criminality and needed to be taken seriously, George said.
The issue was prevalent especially in Laventille and Morvant where some 25 per cent of the 407 murders committed last year occurred.
PSC chairman Prof Ramesh Deosaran described it as a “criminogenic situationâ€.
Deosaran said both Williams and the PSC are concerned over the situation.