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trini youth watching scarface and completely numb to it. watching man getting chop up with chainsaw and thinking that normal and searching amazon for chainsaw prices and skybox rates
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And it’s only a matter of time before trini youth start offloading corn in schools.
Mmoney607 wrote:Hinds say the more murders, the more practice the police get in detection
timelapse wrote:The real question is how many Venezuelans were murderers?
Not where they produced guy.Where they coming from.There are some European made firearms on the street as well.paid_influencer wrote:venezuela has no production facility for guns
guns come from the USA through legal ports of entry facilitated by goodly and honorable customs occifers
timelapse wrote:Not where they produced guy.Where they coming from.There are some European made firearms on the street as well.paid_influencer wrote:venezuela has no production facility for guns
guns come from the USA through legal ports of entry facilitated by goodly and honorable customs occifers
Customs officers complicit as illegal guns pass through ports
The illegal flow of guns that has fuelled bold gangland murders and other killings in recent months is being facilitated to a large extent by complicit customs officers and those in law enforcement. Ironically, some of these officers, tasked with preventing contraband from entering the country, are instead turning a blind eye after allegedly accepting bribes, allowing the free flow of the weapons into the hands of emboldened criminals on the streets.
Customs officers revealed the illegal operations being carried out by some of their colleagues, while Acting Commissioner of Police McDonald Jacob noted that the majority of illegal guns flowing into T&T are not just coming through the porous borders, but right under the eyes of Customs and Excise at the legal ports.
The Customs and Excise Division, which falls under the Ministry of Finance, has come under the microscope as a major player in the illegal gun trade.
While 7,000 illegal guns were seized from criminals and destroyed at the T&T Police Service (TTPS) Academy in September, thousands more have made their way into the country and continue to flood the streets. While Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds estimated in July that there are at least 12,000 illegal firearms on the streets, Independent Senator Paul Richards speaking in the Senate in 2019 said a "credible" study done by the University of Sydney had found that there were more than 32,000 illegal guns on the streets in T&T.
Facilitating the trade
Several customs officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity with the Sunday Guardian, admitted that not only are their colleagues involved in corrupt activities at the ports and airports, but that other law enforcement personnel are helping to facilitate the trade. In some cases, police officers transport the weapons in marked police vehicles to drop them off to underworld bosses and their foot soldiers.
One senior customs officer said that employees are engaged in illegal activities.
"There are certainly people in the system doing illegal things. There was a lady customs officer recently who allegedly examined a barrel in Central and said there was nothing and let it go. Incidentally, that barrel had firearms and ammunition. Then there were two other barrels that she cleared that police had under surveillance and after that, she was supposedly transferred from there."
Another customs officer spoke about the disturbing trends at the Division.
"That situation with the female customs officer is really disturbing. There are certainly no proper checks and balances in place. From what we heard in this particular instance, the police later went to the customs officer's home after she allegedly left the country without seeking the proper permission.
"We have to always inform the relevant authorities before we leave the country. But the striking thing about this situation is that after she was transferred and put on desk duty they later put her back to work at another bond. This is even after they found a text message on her phone in which police claim there was the communication of a $20,000 payment for allowing one of the barrels with arms and ammunition to get by.
"So what I understand is that we started to use different coloured chalk on any given day and we would also ensure the customs officers' initial of their first name and their last name is placed on the barrel to ensure that it can be legitimately identified as examined. "Most of the bonds where these weapons come in do not have a scanner, only shed ten has one in Port-of-Spain and I can tell you that scanner is not working. Added to that, one of the particular bonds is private and we do not have control over that bond's opening and closing hours. Meaning things can come in and go even when customs officers are not there."
The bond warehouse this customs officer is referring to is the Central bond where police have made at least three major finds of guns and ammunition in the last eight months.
Pipeline for the guns to come into T&T
Figueira pointed out that the major pipeline for these illegal firearms easily entering the country from the United States is through the legal ports of entry in Port-of-Spain and Point Lisas as well as the Piarco airport in some cases.
"There is now in T&T a return to the weapons market of the USA to source supply especially AR-15 assault rifle at much lower prices than that set by the traditional Colombian gun suppliers.
"The gun smuggling pipelines from the USA to T&T would source their supply in the states of Florida, Georgia, and Texas and will be shipped to our legal ports from these states or other US states. There is also the pipeline from Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic."
Figueira attributed the increase in the supply of illegal firearms on T&T streets to its cheap cost, with the AR-15 assault rifle as the most popular weapon.
"The nature of gun violence in this period has evolved rapidly for two main reasons: the volume of illicit guns available at affordable prices on the illicit market and the ever-expanding range of types of weapons available summed up in the rapid rise of the AR-15 assault rifle as the weapon of choice."
timelapse wrote:Since when you believe what the CoP says Paid?
I can literally buy an illegal firearm off random venes in my neighborhood,any day,any time.Some come by way of Guyana as well.
timelapse wrote:Since when you believe what the CoP says Paid?
I can literally buy an illegal firearm off random venes in my neighborhood,any day,any time.Some come by way of Guyana as well.
paid_influencer wrote:venezuela has no production facility for guns
guns come from the USA through legal ports of entry facilitated by goodly and honorable customs occifers
VII wrote:Of course they do !! And many are found here.. from basic 2 shot single action shotguns to pumps to revolvers to baretta type knock offs to typical rifles to sheet metal sub machine guns to modern type polymer pistols and sub machine guns..phew where are you getting your info bruh ???..paid_influencer wrote:venezuela has no production facility for guns
guns come from the USA through legal ports of entry facilitated by goodly and honorable customs occifers
Rovin wrote:what types of guns are d majority being seized by d police from d criminals though - those made in vene, usa or from elsewhere ? ....
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