Prison Service relaunches NEC Queen vessel

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice of­fi­cial­ly re­launched the TTPrS NEC QUEEN to­day, restor­ing one of the key ma­rine ves­sels used to trans­port of­fi­cers, in­mates, sup­plies and oth­er per­son­nel to and from the Car­rera Con­vict Prison.

The re­launch cer­e­mo­ny at Harts Cut Bay was at­tend­ed by Car­los Cor­raspe, Wil­son Hen­der­son Jr., mem­bers of the Prison Ser­vice ex­ec­u­tive and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard.

Cor­raspe said de­pend­able trans­porta­tion to the is­land fa­cil­i­ty was crit­i­cal to the Prison Ser­vice’s dai­ly op­er­a­tions, se­cu­ri­ty and ef­fi­cien­cy. He said the ves­sel en­sures of­fi­cers can safe­ly per­form their du­ties while main­tain­ing con­sis­tent ac­cess to the in­sti­tu­tion.

Hen­der­son com­mend­ed the col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­forts be­hind the ves­sel’s re­launch and said the Min­istry re­mained com­mit­ted to strength­en­ing op­er­a­tional sup­port with­in the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty sec­tor.

The Coast Guard al­so was recog­nised for its con­tin­ued part­ner­ship in mar­itime op­er­a­tions sup­port­ing the Prison Ser­vice.