Port-of-Spain: National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy has issued a strong warning to police officers that the government will not tolerate them infringing the laws.
The minister was speaking this morning at the opening of a Sub-Regional Inter-Institutional Training Course in combating trafficking in firearms, ammunition and explosives.
He says the government intends to hold the members of law enforcement to a greater level of accountability, and make them answerable for wrongdoing in this regard.
He notes that law enforcers are the ones who can readily access weapons, which in the normal course of things should only be used in the interest of the state.
Minister Sandy told the gathering of 25 security officials from 11 Caricom countries that the region has a high level of firearms trafficking.
He says apart from the smuggling of weapons for use in the drug trade there are cases of persons purchasing firearms at gun shops in a foreign country and importing them into the region undetected among luggage.
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