Trinidad and Tobago’s National Security Minister, Edmund Dillon says there has been no spike in the murder rate since the start of the year.

In response to a question from opposition leader Kamla Persad Bissessar on the crime rate, Dillon told Parliament on Tuesday there have been 17 murders so far this year compared with 16 for the same period in 2015.

He said investigations into the murders in the past seven days showed they were “drug and gang-related offences.”

Dillon said measures adopted to deal with the incidence of such murders “include intelligence-led operations targeting known drug dealers and gang leaders through cordon and search operations.”

He said the security forces have “also intensified the patrol on coastal areas and are also looking at co-opting the National Operations Centre Special Services Agency to look at intelligence gathering to deal with the drug and gang-related offences.”

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