St James: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar took on a new role as she walked up to a machine at the Police Training Academy in St James and began destroying a gun.
Wearing protective gear, including gloves, ear muffs and protection for her eyes, the prime minister took the first step to destroy a small weapon once used by a criminal and seized by the police.
It's an initiative to rid the country of small arms something the United Nations has been encouraging and to which this country is a willing party.
The destruction came in the middle of the State of Emergency where the fight is against criminals. No specific number has been given but there are scores of other weapons to be destroyed.
Trinidad and Tobago has also been given a marking machine by the UN to trace all state-owned weapons and this initiative will include training for 60 personnel in national security for the future destruction of weapons.
The prime minister says this country has been lobbying the United Nations to address small arms as a matter of urgency since they take more lives that weapons of mass destruction.
The team will destroy expired ammunition next week.
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