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Within the first few months of the initiative, there was a 100% success rate in missing person reports involving children where the report was made to the police within 48-hours of the child being discovered missing. In the case of unsolved murders, there has been minimal success but this is expected to improve as members of the public become increasingly aware of their social responsibility to contribute to a safer Trinidad and Tobago. Marlena James, a 12-year-old schoolgirl who was featured on the Help Find Me Campaign via the the TTPs’ official Twitter account on February 29th, 2016, was found and subsequently returned on March 2nd 2016. A distinctly visual campaign, Help Solve Crime appeals to one’s emotion and an individual’s sense of social responsibility and moral and nationalistic duty to help once in a position to do so. Through public service messages displaying information and pictures of missing persons and victims of murder, the campaign has sought to re-humanize the tragedy of loss which, though unmistakably felt by victims’ families and communities, has been increasingly buried and desensitized under the weight of repetitious news headlines and nameless crime statistics. The Help Solve Crime public engagement initiative was conceptualised by Head – Corporate Communications, Ellen Lewis, and provides strategic communication support to one of the key goals of the Trinidad and Tobago PoliceService, to reduce and detect crime. The target detection rate for serious crime based on the 2016 Operating Plan is 30%. It is hoped that the Help Solve Crime initiative will serve to sensitise and create awareness among members of the public about the role they can play in creating a safer society. The Help Solve Crime campaign will also impact cold cases as well. “We believe that with the public’s help and co-operation, in being our eyes and ears, collectively we will improve the detection rate for serious crimes and moreso murders ... thus allowing a measure of closure for relatives. The TTPS views the Help Solve Crime campaign as a police/public partnership which must be sustained and supported for the good of everyone. Tell us what you know. Help us solve crime and make Trinidad and Tobago a safer place for everybody,” pleaded Ms. Lewis at the launch of the campaign in December, 2015. Commissioner Williams stressed that ‘Help Solve Crime’ is one initiative which will impress upon the public the need for community/police partnership in solving crime.” The Help Solve Crime campaign is wholly dependent for its success on the goodwill and corporate spiritedness of the Trinidad and Tobago media and that of digital billboard operators. Local media and digital billboard owners/operators, from the inception of the programme, have acted as an equal partner in efforts by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service to gain the support and trust of the public in dealing with the problem of crime in the country. Through the regular dissemination of the Help Solve Crime messages on television, print media, billboards, and on social media platforms, the campaign has become ubiquitous and entrenched in the national consciousness, allowing the TTPS to yield the desired result of engagement and awareness. A full list of the companies and media organisations that have supported and continue to support the TTPS Help Solve Crime campaign is as follows: Billboard Operators 1) Yes SOS Help Limited 2) 2000 Digital Advertising Limited 3) Nexus Advertising 4) Enman Group/Carin Television 5) Adnet Limited 6) Digital Broadcast Technology 7) Sotal/ Lollabee Group 8) Pearl and Dean Caribbean Limited 9) Apex Advertising 10) The Creation Group Media Organisations 1) Trinidad and Tobago Newsday 2) Government Information Services Limited 3) TV6 4) Gayelle Limited 5) CNC3 6) TV Jaagriti 7) Synergy 8) Islamic Broadcasting Network 9) CTV 10) Trinity Communications Network 11) Tobago Channel 5 39
Dr. Simon Alexis, Provost, Police Academy United States of America Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, John L. Estrada (left) and Dr. Simon Alexis, Provost Police Academy (right) and a participant in the Instructor Development Course, Inspector. (Ag. ) Dale Arrindell, which was facilitated by the US Embassy. he Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Police Academy, is closely associated with local and international tertiary institutions and law enforcement agencies. Training at the academy has the approval of the regionally recognised education entity; the National Training Agency. Candidates are expected to acquire various skills, inclusive of peer counselling training. Major criminal investigative techniques are delivered through many courses like transnational crimes and trafficking in persons, awareness training. The Police Academy has observed the mandate in its vision ‘to be the academy of excellence in law enforcement education and training locally and regionally.’ The global requirements standard for law enforcement have spanned beyond states. No longer is policing training restricted to single state agendas. Challenges brought about by crimes are widely similar in most countries of the world. This has made the role of the Police Academy relevant, not just locally, but regionally, where the crime situation and experiences are similar. The core roles of the Police Academy are to supply high quality law enforcement training to candidates qualified to receive a 24-28 week police residential induction training programme, and to upgrade the policing skills of serving police officers and their law enforcement stakeholders locally and regionally. Regional stakeholders belonging to CARICOM are afforded access to the services offered by the academy. The Police Academy has also forged ahead and built relationships with local and international tertiary institutions. The Academy has adopted the whole-of-law enforcement approach and utilised qualified resource facilitators throughout the local law enforcement landscape. There are courses that cover fields of study in which the expertise reside outside the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Such expertise is often easily sourced. In the local realm, the academy has signed Memoranda of 40
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