TTPS, Spiritual Baptist body strengthen crime prevention partnership

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has re­newed its part­ner­ship with the Na­tion­al Con­gress of In­cor­po­rat­ed Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Or­gan­i­sa­tions of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NCOIS­BOTT) to sup­port crime pre­ven­tion ef­forts.

Mem­bers of NCOIS­BOTT met with Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro on March 25, 2026, at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port of Spain, to reaf­firm their col­lab­o­ra­tion.

Both par­ties agreed to es­tab­lish a joint Work­ing Coun­cil to co­or­di­nate crime pre­ven­tion ini­tia­tives across the ten po­lice di­vi­sions.

Be­tween 2023 and 2025, NCOIS­BOTT and the TTPS host­ed Na­tion­al Open-Air Prayer Ser­vice Mis­sions in all di­vi­sions. Ac­tiv­i­ties al­so ex­tend­ed to cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ties with fo­cus on re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion.

The part­ner­ship will con­tin­ue with com­mu­ni­ty ac­tiv­i­ties in­clud­ing prayer ser­vices, march­es and pro­ces­sions. These ef­forts are in­tend­ed to en­gage com­mu­ni­ties and ad­dress crime.

The TTPS said the col­lab­o­ra­tion re­flects its ap­proach to in­volv­ing mul­ti­ple groups in crime pre­ven­tion. The ini­tia­tive be­gan in 2022 un­der a for­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said the TTPS re­mains com­mit­ted to work­ing with groups to ad­dress crime. He called on or­gan­i­sa­tions to par­tic­i­pate in ef­forts to im­prove safe­ty.

He said crime pre­ven­tion re­quires par­tic­i­pa­tion from all sec­tors.

Among those at­tend­ing the meet­ing were His Em­i­nence Pa­tri­arch Wayne Jones, His Lord­ship Bish­op Patrick Roberts and Apos­tolic Bish­op An­dre Fran­cis.

The TTPS said it will con­tin­ue to work with part­ners to sup­port crime pre­ven­tion ac­tiv­i­ties and com­mu­ni­ty en­gage­ment pro­grammes.