TTPS urges public: ‘Drink and act responsibly this Carnival’

SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for Car­ni­val 2026, head of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Richard Smith is urg­ing the pub­lic to be aware of their sur­round­ings and to drink re­spon­si­bly.

ACP Smith, who is al­so the TTPS Sil­ver Com­man­der for this year's Car­ni­val, strong­ly ad­vised fete-go­ers to use their dis­cre­tion.

“You could nev­er drink out $3,000 in an all-in­clu­sive fete. You could nev­er drink that,” he as­serts. “If you try, you will die try­ing or you will kill oth­er per­sons try­ing to do that.”

“I just want peo­ple to let good sense pre­vail when they're hav­ing these fetes for car­ni­val,” he said.

ACP Smith con­firmed the po­lice would be main­tain­ing a strong, vis­i­ble pres­ence through­out the sea­son.

How­ev­er, he is urg­ing the pub­lic to act re­spon­si­bly and to let cool­er heads pre­vail while on the roads.

“Take a step back and con­sid­er what you're do­ing. I know some peo­ple be­lieve that killing some­body is the way to re­solve some is­sues, but there are oth­er ways,” he said.

“You have the po­lice you could re­port to,” he not­ed, “and you have the courts.”

ACP Smith says while the po­lice would con­tin­ue to do their part by en­gag­ing in crime-fight­ing ex­er­cis­es, it is in the pub­lic’s best in­ter­est to con­tin­ue to part­ner with law en­force­ment.