{"id":7388,"date":"2013-03-23T08:49:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2013-03-23T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T12:50:47","slug":"wanted-bigger-guns-for-city-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7388","title":{"rendered":"Wanted bigger guns for city cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Sean Douglas &#8211; March 23 2013<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,175227.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7388\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/leesing.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' title=\"Louis Lee Sing\" alt='Louis Lee Sing' \/><\/a>PORT-OF-SPAIN Mayor Louis Lee Sing yesterday called for bigger guns to be given to his municipal police force to deter criminals who harass his contractors when they work in the city\u2019s criminal \u201chot-spots\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a Joint Select Committee (JSC) hearing at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre in Port-of-Spain, Lee Sing said criminals are undeterred and unafraid when confronted by city police officers armed with handguns including the Beretta brand.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u201cThe Beretta does not, as it is, engage the minds of the criminals,\u201d Lee Sing told the JSC. \u201cYou need the kind of weaponry that would put the fear of God into their hearts.\u201d City Corporation CEO Winifred David, said municipal police can\u2019t carry the same kind of firepower that regular police officers use because municipal police are under the control of a mere civilian in the form of the CEO herself. The JSC was told that a request for an upgrade in the arsenal available to municipal police, to an unnamed senior police official over the past three years had apparently fallen on deaf ears. \u201cThere are places in Port-of-Spain, where if we go to do restoration or remedial work&#8230;fix sidewalks, box-drains, underground drains or replace manholes \u2014 you meet and are confronted with negative elements in society,\u201d Lee Sing said.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,175227.html\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sean Douglas &#8211; March 23 2013 newsday.co.tt PORT-OF-SPAIN Mayor Louis Lee Sing yesterday called for bigger guns to be given to his municipal police force to deter criminals who harass his contractors when they work in the city\u2019s criminal \u201chot-spots\u201d. Addressing a Joint Select Committee (JSC) hearing at Tower D, International Waterfront Centre in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=7388\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wanted bigger guns for city cops<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,566,30,7],"tags":[44,198,593],"class_list":["post-7388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-general-tt","category-opposition-party","category-pnm","category-politics","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-louis-lee-sing","tag-port-of-spain-mayor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7390,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}