Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert said while this was the first time most people were hearing about the CCU, the unit has been “involved in activities”.

“Now that the office has been located and established…It is staffed by people qualified in information technology and they are resourced with equipment to do analysis in IT systems,” Philbert said.

He said the CCU was established because of the importance of cyber in crime detection. He said it was vitally important that the police specialise in the way that they dealt with crime.

Philbert said crime was now more sophisticated and now involved the internet which has motivated the police to move in that direction.

He said anything that dealt with IT came under the purview of the CCU which had international connections, including a link with Interpol.

“The Cyber Crime Unit is not just dealing with Gail Joseph’s murder, it is any crime that involves IT, any crime that has surfaced and has been sent to us,” Philbert said.

In a statement yesterday he said that under the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act he was making temporary traffic regulations for the movement of traffic for the dry-run.

He said, “There will be a dry run for the Summit of the Americas tomorrow from 1 pm to 5 pm”.

The affected roads are Golden Grove Road (from Caroni North Bank Road to Piarco Roundabout), Churchill Roosevelt Highway (from Mausica Road to Orange Grove Road), BWIA Boulevard, Caroni North Bank Road and Mausica Road.

The western carriageway of BWIA Boulevard will be closed to vehicular traffic, while the eastern carriageway will be converted into a two-way traffic lane to accommodate vehicles entering and leaving Piarco Airport.

Vehicles travelling along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway en route to St Helena shall proceed south along Mausica Road, and west along Caroni North Bank Road into St Helena. Vehicles travelling to Piarco Airport from St Helena shall proceed north along Caroni North Bank Road, north along the Mausica Road, west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and south along BWIA Boulevard into the airport.

Vehicles travelling west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway towards Port-of-Spain shall proceed north along Golden Grove Road, west along the Eastern Main Road, south along Orange Grove Road and continue west along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway.

Philbert apologised for any inconvenience caused to the motoring public.
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