Trinidad and Tobago Police Service website faced shutdown due to non-payment to service providers

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Homeland Security Minister in Trinidad, Roger Alexander, confirmed on Wednesday that the website of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) was shut down in February following the non-payment to service providers.

Alexander told the Senate that the website “experienced a period of unavailability during the month of February and extended into March, early March 2026” and that Police Commissioner, Allister Guevarro, had advised that “the interruption arose in circumstances where there were outstanding payments to the external service provider responsible for hosting and maintaining of the website”.

He said this included an invoice relating to service rendered in 2025 and a subsequent invoice for 2026.

“I am advised that the matter has since been addressed and the website …has now been restored to service,” Alexander said, adding that with the website undergoing upgrades and maintenance work, certain features, including the crime statistics portal, are temporarily unavailable.

“Upon completion of this upgrade, the data validation process, the statistics will be published on the official website of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and made accessible to the public in the usual manner,” Alexander said, adding that the TTPS and the providers are working at this time in order to upgrade the system.

“As soon as this is completed, all information will be handed over to members of the public,” Alexander said, providing crime statistics for the period January and February of this year.

“Based on information provided by the Commission of Police, the provisional total number of criminal offences, serious criminal offences reported across all police divisions in between January 2026 is 725, and from February 2026 it is 479.

“The provisional total number of serious criminal offences detected across all police divisions in January 2026 is 212, and for February 2026, 85,” Alexander said, reiterating that these figures are provisional as of March 2, this year.

He said the figures remain the subject of verification and finalisation by the Crime and Problem Analysis Branch of the TTPS.

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