TTPS promises strict enforcement of new fireworks regulations

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has warned that “firm and de­ci­sive ac­tion” will be tak­en against any­one who breach­es new­ly pro­claimed fire­works leg­is­la­tion now in force.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued to­day, the TTPS con­firmed the procla­ma­tion of the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Amend­ment) Act No. 13 of 2025 and the Sum­ma­ry Of­fences (Fire­works) Reg­u­la­tions 2025, Le­gal No­tice 466, and ad­vised the pub­lic that the leg­is­la­tion is op­er­a­tional.

“The rules have changed—our re­spon­si­bil­i­ty must change too,” the TTPS said as it urged cit­i­zens to re­frain from the im­prop­er, un­law­ful or un­safe use of fire­works.

Po­lice said the ir­re­spon­si­ble dis­charge of fire­works en­dan­gers lives and prop­er­ty, cre­ates pub­lic alarm, and dis­rupts com­mu­ni­ties, par­tic­u­lar­ly af­fect­ing chil­dren, se­nior cit­i­zens, vul­ner­a­ble per­sons and an­i­mals, in­clud­ing house­hold pets.

The TTPS cau­tioned that while of­fi­cers may is­sue warn­ings where ap­pro­pri­ate, “the is­suance of a warn­ing does not pre­clude pros­e­cu­tion.”

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, of­fi­cers will main­tain “height­ened, in­tel­li­gence-led and tar­get­ed pa­trols to en­sure pub­lic safe­ty and com­pli­ance with the law”.

The re­lease al­so stressed that all of­fences de­tect­ed or re­port­ed will be in­ves­ti­gat­ed and may lead to pros­e­cu­tion.

The TTPS thanked the pub­lic for its co­op­er­a­tion and en­cour­aged full com­pli­ance, not­ing that “col­lec­tive re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and ad­her­ence to safe­ty reg­u­la­tions re­main crit­i­cal to en­sur­ing a safer and more se­cure Trinidad and To­ba­go.”