PoS cops warn motorists of robberies around Lady Chancellor

Shane Su­perville

Per­sons ex­er­cis­ing in and around the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, par­tic­u­lar­ly near the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill are be­ing warned to be vig­i­lant when park­ing their ve­hi­cles in the area, fol­low­ing a string of thefts and rob­beries.

The warn­ing was made by of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion, af­ter an in­ci­dent where a man's ve­hi­cle was bro­ken in­to on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.

Po­lice said the man parked his white Toy­ota Hilux near the Em­per­or Val­ley Zoo at around 4.30 pm and went to ex­er­cise.

He re­turned short­ly af­ter and no­ticed the left rear win­dow of the ve­hi­cle bro­ken and his lap­top, cell­phone, ear bud charg­ing port, head­phones, lunch bag and as­sort­ed cloth­ing were miss­ing.

Last Sun­day, an­oth­er rob­bery was re­port­ed where a woman's sil­ver Mer­cedes Benz was bro­ken in­to and a glass­es case stolen.

On the morn­ing of March 1, a man's Toy­ota Rav4 was bro­ken in­to on the La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill near the Hor­ti­cul­tur­al So­ci­ety.

A black pouch con­tain­ing his house­keep­ing, bank cards and $1000 cash was stolen.

In an­oth­er in­ci­dent on the night of Feb­ru­ary 2nd, a woman parked and locked her Toy­ota Aqua on the Queen's Park Sa­van­nah and left to ex­er­cise.

She re­turned short­ly af­ter and no­ticed the back glass of the car bro­ken and the car bat­tery miss­ing.

Po­lice are there­fore ad­vis­ing peo­ple to take ex­tra pre­cau­tions when park­ing their ve­hi­cles in the area, while be­ing vig­i­lant.

One of­fi­cer al­so urged Toy­ota Aqua own­ers to in­vest in ad­di­tion­al locks and steer­ing clamps to pro­tect their ve­hi­cles as they said there was a marked uptick in the thefts of bat­ter­ies from these ve­hi­cles.

Po­lice said while some at­ten­tion will be fo­cused on the area to de­ter rob­beries, they note that oth­er ar­eas would re­quire their at­ten­tion as they try to bal­ance the al­lo­ca­tion of re­sources and time.