Commissioner Scolds Group of Minors For Breaching Public Health Order
A group of twenty-seven people, mostly minors, who were found breaching government’s public health order in the Sea Lots area on Sunday, was reprimanded by Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, before being allowed to go home.
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service employed its technical units to locate the teens, who posted videos to social media boasting that they do not care about COVID-19.
Upon visiting the seafront in the area, the officers, led by Mr. Griffith, identified the group and ordered them to lay on their stomachs.
They were later taken to a nearby Police Mobile Detention Unit, where the Commissioner spoke to them before sending them home.
In a statement following the incident, Commissioner Griffith said that while he empathizes with the fact that many young persons are becoming frustrated due to the stay at home policy, “the frustration cannot and should not be released by committing actions that can cost them and their friends, their lives.”