9
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES AND SECTORAL EMPHASIS
Strategic Priority
Sectors
Allocation
Crime and Law and Order
Law Enforcement
536.518
Public Safety and Citizen
Security
919.255
TOTAL
1455.773
34.
Over the medium term, Government will utilise a multi-dimensional approach to contain
and reduce crime, including more effective law enforcement and policing and social
interventions designed to discourage a lifestyle of crime and violence.
Public Safety and Citizen Security
35.
The Government will continue to focus on providing citizen security and safety in the
ensuing three (3) years through the improvement of physical infrastructure and purchase of
equipment for the agencies involved in combatting crime in Trinidad and Tobago.
36.
The IDB-assisted Citizen Security Programme (CSP) will continue with initiatives aimed
at reducing the level of homicides, robberies and woundings and increasing the perception of
safety in high risk communities. The major activities to be undertaken will include:
•
the expansion of the programme into fourteen (14) additional communities within
East Port of Spain
•
continuation of a cease-fire intervention programme targeted at high risk groups
•
training of Community Action Council members in the areas of Domestic Violence
Prevention, Child Abuse Prevention and Community Safety Planning
•
provision of grants of up to $10,000 to community based organiations for micro
projects
•
implementation of Rapid Impact Projects in the eight (8) new CSP communities
•
provision of assistance to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) through
the provision of Specialised Training for Victim Support Unit Officers and for the
outfitting of these Victim Support Units
•
continuation of provision of grants up to $50,000 to implement projects to address
issues related to school safety and
•
execution of public education activities to promote peace in communities through
television, print and electronic media advertisements
37.
The Citizen Security Programme will require the sum of $110.6 to implement these
initiatives. Cabinet approved an extension of the programme to August 2015.
