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Using Knowledge<br />
to Fight Crime in<br />
Trinidad and Tobago:<br />
Professor Lawrence W. Sherman<br />
Director of the Institute of Criminology,<br />
University of Cambridge<br />
Wolfson Professor of Criminology<br />
Sumit Kumar<br />
Fellow, Cambridge Center for<br />
Evidence Based Policing<br />
ll across the world, progressive police agencies are<br />
learning from the recent achievements of the<br />
Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (<strong>TTPS</strong>). From<br />
Australia to Sweden, from England to Argentina,<br />
police leaders are closely following this rapid progress. The<br />
following lists just a few of the things the world is learning<br />
from Trinidad and Tobago police:<br />
• How to use advanced data analysis to predict<br />
where and when violent crimes occur<br />
• How to use GPS devices to track policing on the<br />
most crime-prone streets<br />
• What police can do to prevent shootings and<br />
murders in these locations<br />
• What police leaders can do to inspire more<br />
productivity in crime prevention<br />
• Whether police use of hi-tech bandages can save<br />
lives of wounded victims<br />
These achievements did not happen just by chance. They<br />
grew out of a non-partisan strategy under two governments,<br />
to work with the world’s leading university. For over ten years,<br />
the <strong>TTPS</strong> has developed a thriving partnership with the<br />
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