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Brigadier John Sandy - Trinidad, Tobago / Caribbean - Posted: 24th Jun, 2012 - 9:47pm
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Minister of National Security
Post Date: 28th May, 2010 - 8:34pm / Post ID: #
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What is your opinion on the appointment of Brigadier John Sandy as the Minister of National Security?
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He is meeting with the heads of each police division, face to face. He believes crime can be changed by changing the psyche of the youth:
QUOTE "This week coming here, I will meet them individually, and we will go into more detail. What I want, first of all, I want each division to do a personal audit. I want to see the organisation's structure. I want to know why it is we can't get more policemen on the streets; why we can't have more in the communities and things like that.
"When I sit with them and I see the organisational structures and I do the admin in the personal audits, that will advise me as to where we go from there. We are not going to do away with anything that was done in the past, we are going to look and see if there are programmes that are working, by all means, we are going to make them work better,".
"The entire Cabinet, the entire Government, the entire country should be fighting crime," he said, adding, "Gone should be the days when you are afraid to go out at night. Our role is to ensure safety and security for Trinidad and Tobago. It's not going to come overnight, but we are going to pursue it and we are going to pursue it relentlessly."
"Crime is not only fighting offences or felonies; you have to start from the youngsters," he said. He said this will require getting police not only on the streets or in the communities, but also going into schools.
"We are competing with the guys on the block with five chains; you know who I"m talking about; those are the people who the youngsters would see and look up to, and they would feel that is the way to go because they would find out that these guys did not even finish high school and look at them, they are wearing five chains, they driving fancy cars and so on....
"When I sit with them and I see the organisational structures and I do the admin in the personal audits, that will advise me as to where we go from there. We are not going to do away with anything that was done in the past, we are going to look and see if there are programmes that are working, by all means, we are going to make them work better,".
"The entire Cabinet, the entire Government, the entire country should be fighting crime," he said, adding, "Gone should be the days when you are afraid to go out at night. Our role is to ensure safety and security for Trinidad and Tobago. It's not going to come overnight, but we are going to pursue it and we are going to pursue it relentlessly."
"Crime is not only fighting offences or felonies; you have to start from the youngsters," he said. He said this will require getting police not only on the streets or in the communities, but also going into schools.
"We are competing with the guys on the block with five chains; you know who I"m talking about; those are the people who the youngsters would see and look up to, and they would feel that is the way to go because they would find out that these guys did not even finish high school and look at them, they are wearing five chains, they driving fancy cars and so on....
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On TV6 News there was a caption where Brigadier John Sandy said something like the 1990 Coup attempt will never happen again with the help of the police, military and intelligence services.
He claimed the role of the police will be to nurture in schools so students can look up to the police.
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QUOTE (JB @ 3-Jun 10, 7:20 PM) He claimed the role of the police will be to nurture in schools so students can look up to the police.
Although I do understand and admire his idea, I think he must keep in remembrance that we're talking about the youth in Trinidad who a lot of them come from broken homes, we cannot "fix" the kids, if we do not "fix" the homes. They need psychologists, therapies, etc.
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Rowley was driving him nuts yesterday in Parliament asking for Sandy's resignation. It's hard to know sometimes whether what the media prints is accurate or not because Sandy says he never said the appointment of Ramnarine was an "error".
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