Arima Borough Corporation reviews police station security

The Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion says it will take steps to ad­dress se­cu­ri­ty at mu­nic­i­pal po­lice sta­tions fol­low­ing a meet­ing on Tues­day.

May­or of Ari­ma Al­der­man Bal­li­ram Ma­haraj ex­tend­ed con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly, friends and col­leagues of Act­ing Cor­po­ral Anusha Ever­s­ley, who was mur­dered on Sun­day morn­ing at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion. He said the loss of life and the theft of arms and am­mu­ni­tion are mat­ters for na­tion­al at­ten­tion and called on cor­po­ra­tions to en­sure the safe­ty of of­fi­cers.

May­or Ma­haraj and Coun­cil­lor Dave Ma­haraj, Vice Chair­man of the Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Com­mit­tee, met with the Se­nior En­gi­neer of the Ari­ma Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion and se­nior of­fi­cers of the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice to re­view se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments and pro­ce­dures at po­lice lo­ca­tions.

Dur­ing the meet­ing, of­fi­cers out­lined their needs and raised con­cerns re­lat­ed to se­cu­ri­ty at the sta­tions. They said mea­sures are re­quired to main­tain safe­ty for staff and res­i­dents.

May­or Ma­haraj said the coun­cil will en­gage the cor­po­ra­tion to ad­dress the is­sues raised. He said dis­cus­sions will take place on the next steps and ac­tions to be tak­en.

The Ari­ma Bor­ough Coun­cil is ex­pect­ed to meet to con­sid­er the mat­ters iden­ti­fied dur­ing the as­sess­ment and to de­ter­mine a course of ac­tion.

May­or Ma­haraj said the safe­ty of of­fi­cers and burgess­es re­mains a pri­or­i­ty and that the cor­po­ra­tion will con­tin­ue its re­view of se­cu­ri­ty at mu­nic­i­pal po­lice fa­cil­i­ties.