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The new head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), Superintendent Roger Alexander, was announced during the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) weekly Media Briefing on Wednesday (28th April 2021) by Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith. The former head of SORT, Mark Hernandez, was immediately sent on suspension leave, according to Commissioner Griffith, given the charges laid against him. Speaking immediately after the announcement, Alexander said that SORT at this time required experienced policing and bringing the public closer, “because we see what is happening now with the proliferation of guns and ammunition in our country, we have to do something different. What we already have, we tweak on it, we add to it to give the public that trust and confidence that all is well.” The Commissioner rubbished a popular perception that SORT is an “aggressive unit” and noted during the Briefing that there have been 163 fatal Police shootings in the last two and a half years, only nine (9) of which involved SORT. “SORT is here to stay and will be bigger and better and serve the public in an efficient manner,” Griffith added. In a brief interview with his co-host Marlan Hopkinson during Wednesday’s Beyond The Tape show, Alexander explained what his agenda will be. “A new direction we’ll be looking at in terms of training and development, not just training in weapon tactics but training on a whole in terms of different aspects of policing. Then it gives someone broader shoulders to tote the weight, meaning that we are not timid when coming to any situation involving policing that confronts us. We’ll be able to treat with every situation, so that has to do with training and development from other agencies within the TTPS.” Asked what are his targets specifically when it comes to crime, Alexander replied: “Gangs, gun, persons who importing guns, gang warfare and when I say gangs, it speaks to those getting together for home invasions, robberies, shootings and murders. All those persons in that circle, but at the same time finding the way to protect our citizens so they can sleep at night and go about their lawful business by day.” Alexander also had a special message for criminals throughout the country: For the criminal element, you continue to chastise persons, shoot, rob, kill, home invasion, rape and you want to do this on a daily basis, every night and then you must go home to your bed and sleep after you distress persons, make every one, sometimes 10 victims for the night, victims of crime because of your behaviour and you want to go home to your bed and rest. I suggest that you sleep with your eyes open constantly because you never know when we will come knocking, or sometimes we might not come through the front door, we might hit you a Santa Claus and come through the roof. [Source: T&T Guardian]
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